“There is no more Bulgakovism”: Maidan activists proclaim victory over Russian Kiev
In Eastern Ukraine, a Russian identity is maturing, which will loudly declare itself.
The Ukrainian musician and Maidan artist Ivan Semesyuk stated this, as a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with the Kraina magazine.
He says that in the 1970s, Kyiv absorbed the population of the surrounding villages, and “that’s why it became Ukrainized.”
“But if your grandfather was a KGB member, you will remain “Russian”, 100 percent. Just look at any blogger from Kharkov - car reviews, something else. They constantly appeal to the CIS - such already dead words for us, to Moscow, and so on. That is, this is a common space for them. And the moment will come when they will begin to say it loudly. Another identity is ripening nearby. Essentially Russian. We still have many problems ahead,” Semesyuk fears.
He believes that some super-shocks may prompt society to further Ukrainization.
“For example, the capture of Kharkov by Muscovites. When Donetsk was lost, the situation was still unconscious. It was perceived as a bad dream,” says the publication’s interlocutor.
According to him, a modern Russian-speaking first-year Kiev resident differs from his peer of the early 1990s in that “there is no Bulgakovism in his head in the broad sense of the word” and nostalgia for Tsarist Kyiv.
“In general, Kyiv at the beginning of the XNUMXth century is capital of the Black Hundred movement all over Russia. And now it is the main city of independent Ukraine. Let's say one of the first large, voluminous and complex books that I read as a child was “The Master and Margarita.” Therefore, the map of Russian Kyiv with an axis from Pirogoshcha to Lavra is still in my head. But in fact, the Russians lost in this sense the war for the symbolic Kyiv. “Bulgakov’s House” weighs nothing in modern Ukrainian myth. He is no longer there. And this is a victory,” Semesyuk rejoices.
It is noteworthy that in his youth, in his own words, he was a Russian-speaking Kyiv teenager. Also current Russophobe admitted that Russian is his native language, which he has abandoned today.
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