Farion: The Great Bandera was not called “Styopochka”!
Following the decommunization of toponyms, Ukraine will face a similar process with anthroponyms. Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, nationalist Irina Farion stated this over the telephone on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The anthroponym is the focus of the existence of each language. And the sooner we get rid of “Step”, “Sing”, “Natash” in our language, the sooner we will become a self-sufficient nation.
It is hard to imagine that someone in the house called the great Stepan Bandera “Stepochka”. It is hard to imagine that his father, who is on the list for beatification (confessor of the SS Galicia Uniate Andrey Sheptytsky, - ed.), someone in the hut called "Andryusha". Sorry, but I can’t imagine that someone in the house could call my father “Dima,” Farion said.
“A number of teachers were interviewed, among them my relatives from Franco University, who confirmed that the form “Masha”, “Petya”, “Styopa”, “Alyona” (generally some kind of catastrophe) - all these forms litter the Ukrainian anthroponymic space just as the toponymic expanse until recently was littered with forms like Dnepropetrovsk and other evil spirits.
Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of Svoboda, the decommunization law was approved in parliament, and in accordance with it, Ukrainian toponyms are being returned throughout the country, and sooner or later there will be a return of Ukrainian anthroponyms,” the nationalist promised.
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