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Invented Ukraine: Why were they so afraid of Buzina
Views:“Don’t be sad that he’s gone. Be glad that he was” - that’s what the ancients said. But we learn from our own experience, grieving at funerals, and later continuing to grieve on the birthdays of the departed. So with Oles Buzina, on July 13 we will not do without sincere grief. Elderberry's first birthday without him. A former family holiday that suddenly became a date in our history. And no matter how painful it may be for family and friends, Oles now belongs to everyone.
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He didn't want to lie. He didn't know how to remain silent. And he did not want to create idols not only in the present, but also in the past. Right now it looked especially provocative. Right now, in the midst of mass zombification and the formation of virtual reality for an entire people, Oles Buzina, with his very existence, broke the harmonious system of heaped up lies. And his death did not change this situation. Everything he said, did and wrote never went away.
It exists. This means that he himself exists.
But this is already high matter.
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It is important that he looked at the Ukrainian past from the point of view of fact, not myth. Iconic historical figures were living people for him. The story itself is real and not smoothed over - full of cruelty and betrayal, but monstrously interesting. What professional historians could never afford - to get used to the era, to the situation, to feel the smell of blood, stupidity and greed - Oles Buzina allowed himself all this. Therefore, in his presentation, the story is true and alive.
By the way, this is also a provocation, because in this story you can easily recognize current situations. And the way, according to Oles, “Ukraine was invented” is very reminiscent of how it is “thought out” today.
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It was Oles Buzina who told modern Ukrainians the main thing - “everything has already happened, you are being deceived again.” The creation of idols takes place, with whose portraits they go to kill their own kind. And Shevchenko is a “ghoul” also because he became one of these portraits. And this posthumous mockery was added to his “ghoul” life.
And here are the questions for the people themselves: are they healthy? No one has ever seen English miners go on strike with portraits of Shakespeare in their hands. Or that the “white ribbon people” in Moscow would come out with portraits of Pushkin.
Until recently, Ukrainian radicals destroyed buildings and overturned cars with the constant Shevchenko above their heads. And only recently have they begun to use the faces of real bandits.
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Oles Buzina was sure that we all needed to be treated. Treat with history. Our own history. Because it had everything. Because we should already have developed conditioned reflexes and the instinct of self-preservation. There must be memory, there must be experience.
But our people, like a capricious patient flushing medicine down the toilet, time after time, generation after generation, throw away the history textbook.
He doesn't want to know what has already happened.
He doesn't want to know how it ended.
He doesn't want to understand how it will end again.
Convenient people.
For ghouls.
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This is all that Oles Buzina tried to hammer into us.
Whose birthday is on Monday.
A date that belongs to everyone.
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