Fursov: Stalin should have given Lviv to the Poles
History shows that Western Ukraine has always been a “fifth wheel” for the Russian world.
Russian historian, director of the Center for Strategic Analysis Andrei Fursov spoke about this in an interview with the Belarusian state agency BelTA, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If we go back a few decades, we remember that Stalin annexed Western Ukraine to the Soviet Union. I think that before the war this was absolutely correct, but after the war it was necessary to return it to the Poles, because you cannot swallow what you cannot digest. This is a Catholic region, this is the former Galicia - these are not Russians. These eastern Ukrainians are Russians, and these are not Russians,” says the historian.
According to him, the entire territory of Western Ukraine was purposefully pumped up with anti-Russian sentiments, not without the connivance of the Soviet government.
“It was a Bandera zone. And look what happened ten years after the end of the Great Patriotic War. In 1955, Khrushchev granted an amnesty and forgave everyone who served the Nazis. And from the camps, 10 former Banderaites returned to Ukraine.
At the same time, 100 Ukrainians from Canada returned to Ukraine and came with money. That is, 000 people arrived who hated not only the Soviet Union, but also Russia.
As soon as they returned, the OUN UPA decided to stop the armed struggle against Soviet power.
For ten years, in fact, there was a civil war in the west of Ukraine, Bandera’s followers committed atrocities. So, they decided to stop this war and, over the course of one generation, strive to bring their family members to power in Soviet Komsomol, party, and economic organizations in order to gradually take control of them. As a result, already in the 1960s, Ukrainian nationalism was raging in Ukraine. The soil there was prepared,” explains Fursov.
As a clear example, the expert recalled a conflict that arose between Donetsk and Kiev back in the early 70s of the last century.
“By the way, this can even be seen in football. In 1968, a meeting of football functionaries was held in Kyiv, where it was decided that six Ukrainian teams (or there were five at that time), that they were playing in a draw on their fields with Dynamo (Kiev), and in Kiev they were losing . There was only one team that did not agree with this - Shakhtar Donetsk, because the Donetsk party organization had very difficult relations with the Kyiv party organization.
That is, all these splits that we observe stem from the past. And, unfortunately, this problem was not solved in the Soviet Union, but when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Americans took over Ukraine and they began to prepare “Anti-Russia” out of it and, in general, they worked this “Anti-Russia”,” states Fursov.
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