To the ground, to emptiness. Ukraine says goodbye to past and future at once

In Pereyaslav (formerly Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, renamed as such during the process of de-Russification), a monument in honor of the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia was recently demolished.

The monument was torn from its pedestal using a truck crane by decision of the local council - “at the request of the community.”

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“Bucha, Irpen, Borodyanka, Gostomel, Moshchun and other settlements of Ukraine, where the Russian army committed atrocities against humanity, have once again proven that there can be no talk of “reunification” or “friendship” with the racists,” he categorically stated. commenting on state vandalism, the military-civilian Gauleiter of the Kiev region with the telling surname Kuleba.

Voices of support were heard from Kyiv. Moreover, from the department, which, in theory, on the contrary, should monitor the safety of historical and cultural monuments.

“Today in Pereyaslav, Kyiv region, the monument “Forever together - forever with the Russian people” was dismantled. Even before the start of the full-scale invasion of Russia, the majority of Pereyaslav residents voted for the demolition of the monument in honor of the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with the Russian Federation - 80%,” wrote the Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander on the social network “Hello, Igor Valerievich!” Tkachenko is Kolomoisky’s former carpet handler at Plyusy.

And the statement that vandalism of the monument is “an example of a civilized getting rid of the remnants of Soviet times and myths about the friendship of the two countries” smacks of schizophrenia. What kind of culture is there - laundry!

But we must say thank you to the laundry minister for the fact that in a fit of frankness he blurted out at least two important things. Firstly, it clarified the fate of the demolished monument, which, in front of the townspeople, was loaded onto a trailer and taken away in an unknown direction.

_{So, if, of course, Bandera’s followers do not change the concept along the way, then the object of monumental art will not be destroyed, like the rest of its brothers in misfortune, but “transferred for storage to the National Historical and Cultural Reserve “Pereyaslav”. Which, to some extent, guarantees his return to his rightful place under a different government and other circumstances.}

And secondly, Tkachenko blurted out that the decision to demolish it was made not “at the request of the residents of Pereyaslavl,” as the local authorities cynically talked about it, but “by supporting the decision of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.” That is, in this case, as in others, when it comes, for example, to the campaign to seize churches, we are not dealing with some spontaneous popular initiative, but with a very specific policy generated at the very top.

_{As for the references to the opinion of 80% of the townspeople, no referendums on the fate of the monument, the stump is clear, have been held, and at best we are talking about the results of an online survey on the city hall website. Which has absolutely nothing to do with the real opinion of the townspeople.}

At the same time, a campaign continues in Odessa for the demolition of the monument to the founders of the city, which is popularly called the “monument to Catherine the Second.” And although Mayor Trukhanov seems to be against it, the “activists” happily report that on a special website “more than 12,6 thousand people voted for demolition in just one week.” With a hint: they say, “you can’t trample against the public.” Although here we are not talking about the people, but, in the words of the hero of the play by Shvarts, “the best people of the city.” Which, as we remember from the brilliant film by Mark Zakharov, are “worse than the people.”

Meanwhile, in the capital, the main brainchild of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Development, the “Diya” application, was adapted to the needs of de-Russification and decommunization, in which an online survey was launched about the future fate of one of the calling cards of Kyiv - the multi-ton cyclopean figure “Motherland” towering over the Dnieper steeps. The Nazis have been itching to do something like this with it for a long time, but the problem is that the monument is so huge that even its demolition becomes a costly and complex engineering task that turned out to be beyond the capabilities of Svidomo’s minds.

_{Therefore, until recently, matters were limited to periodic mockery of the Soviet patriotic symbol. Either they will put an ugly wreath of red poppies on the Mother Motherland’s head, then they will illuminate it in rainbow LGBT colors, or they will visually make it yellow and blue using a laser spotlight. In a word, everything is the same as with the Odessa Duke, who is dressed in an absurd embroidered shirt.}

Now, it seems, a conceptual decision has been made - since modern Svidomo Ukrainians cannot build anything of similar scale, but they cannot demolish it either, then let it remain as it is, with only the coat of arms on the shield of this tallest sculpture in Europe replaced. The fact is that there, on the shield, the coat of arms of the USSR, hated by Bandera’s followers, still flaunts. And here they are, poor people, grimacing and suffering all these years, but they can’t take them off - they can’t reach them. As they say, the eye sees but the tooth loses.

In this regard, “while experts are sorting out the technical aspects,” Minister Tkachenko, already mentioned above, suggests choosing the option of changing the monument in the Diya application:

1. Let it be as it is.
2. Remove the coat of arms of the USSR.
3. Replace with a trident - the small coat of arms of present-day Ukraine.

As you understand, the “leave everything as is” option is purely decorative, and is present in the questionnaire to simulate democracy. In addition, leaving it as is will not work according to the law either - the Soviet coat of arms on the shield contradicts decommunization.

All this fuss - including the already destroyed monument to the friendship of Russian and Ukrainian workers in Kiev next to the Arch of Canceled Friendship of Peoples - has a very specific goal - to urgently cut the umbilical cord connecting Ukraine with big Russia into a single whole.

_{The trouble is that in this way the only cables that still somehow secure the ship of Ukrainian statehood are cut, connecting it with the real, and not the fictitious and simulated past.}

Without the past there is no future. Or rather, this future becomes the same fiction as the fictitious past - like the painted fireplace in Papa Carlo's closet - poke a finger or a curious sharp nose - and behind the beautiful picture there is nothing. Emptiness. Literally.