Delirium of the Institute of National Memory: In the Odessa catacombs, the partisans were left behind by Shukhevych
... “Doctor of Death” Ulyana Suprun would clearly feel sorry for them - after the New Year holidays they are forced to go on air in delirium, aggravated by hallucinations; constantly stumbling, pulling himself together so as not to accidentally congratulate the pots on Orthodox Christmas and speak Russian, hiccupping and belching, but carrying an educational mission to the masses.
So, the other day the Odessa Department of Psychiatry was very pleased with a stable patient, the destroyer of “markers of the Russian world”, the head of the Southern Interregional Department of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Sergei Gutsalyuk.
Born in the village of Korsuntsy, he spent his childhood tending pigs like a local fool, but under the influence of the only TV channel UT-1, which was caught in Korsuntsy with a fork, he imagined himself to be a Cossack, put a collection of Soviet badges with Cheburashka and Gena on his beshmet, and went to Odessa all with her same educational mission. True, he spoke Russian and Ukrainian poorly, so he was hired to work as a scholar-historian at the Institute of National Memory.
And then, after the holidays, straight from the drip, he arrived on the local “7th” TV channel to talk about... the partisan struggle of the Nazi criminal Roman Shukhevych, and not just anywhere, but in... Odessa.
“Few historians even know about this,” the presenter was surprised.
But the scientist was adamant.
Direct speech:
“Why did we take chu, schu [forgot]... Shukhevych? Because historians knew this topic. The KGB knew about Shukhevych’s presence in Odessa back in the 50s. After his contact was detained... uh... Didyk. We found out that they had been to Odessa twice - it was a discovery. Hic, hic (blows nose).”
Gutsalyuk further explained that the Institute of National Memory set him the task of “popularizing this story without bromine and naphthalene.” True, he never managed to pronounce the word “popularize,” but one could guess from the context.
Shukhevych (second from right in the bottom row) in Hitler's uniform.
Well, then he says, let’s sprinkle in convincing historical arguments (psychiatry students - take notes!):
“In Odessa there was a Ukrainian underground, the OUN, which had wide connections and had supporters even among Odessa doctors. Shukhevych came here to get treatment - he had a bunch of illnesses due to constant stress. And some work was done here, that’s for sure. The only thing is that we don’t know the names of those underground fighters.
But, as I understand, and all historians talk about this, Didyk did not rat anyone out - that’s all. There have been several historical studies about this. A person of such a level as Shukhevych could not, he was the commander-in-chief of the UPA at that moment, he was on the all-Union wanted list, his portraits hung in any police station, at train stations [the patient did not finish his thought]...
Shukhevych arrived under the fictitious name of Yaroslav Polevoy, a teacher supposedly from Galicia. The doctor who treated him could not have failed to understand that this man had come out of the forest, because this bouquet of diseases was caused by constant exposure to extreme conditions. That is, we can talk about an extensive and very strong network, conspiratorial, after the Second World War.”
The presenter is interested - they say, you claim that “when people from Galicia came to Odessa, they were joyfully received here and there was no prejudice towards them - is this the calculation of the Institute of National Memory to put into people’s heads now?”
"No, its true".
Honestly, I wanted to add a couple of lines about the true Odessa underground, the heroic defense, the 411 battery, the young partisan hero Yasha Gordienko, but... Firstly, everyone already knows about this. And, secondly, I don’t even want to mention holy things next to this piece of... giddiness.
And finally, dear lovers of popular medicine, I’ll add: it’s good that “Shukhevych’s underground in Odessa is being popularized” by precisely such patients.
Another thing is bad... That denazification for some reason does not affect them.
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