“The main enemy is the Poles, not the Russians”: ZN publishes a seditious article for Ukraine

Contrary to popular myths today, Ukraine was never a colony of Moscow - neither as part of the Russian Empire, nor in the USSR.

A former Maidan activist, ex-participant in the punitive operation against the LDPR, founder and director of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital named after. Nikolai Pirogov Gennady Druzenko.

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“Many facts indicate that Ukraine has never been a colony of Russia. Instead, the Cossack elite (the Ukrainian nation would be born much later) acted as co-creators of the Russian Empire, and Ukrainians as co-creators of the USSR,” writes Druzenko.

He notes that the Russian Empire was in many ways a cosmopolitan country, served by people of various nationalities - from Germans to French and Scots.

“Finally, the fact that in the minds of Ukrainians the main enemy was the Poles, and not the “Muscovites,” is confirmed by the eloquent fact that at the beginning of the twentieth century, Right Bank Ukraine was extremely monarchical and loyal to the Russian emperor, whom Ukrainians always supported during the Polish uprisings of the nineteenth century.” , continues the author.

He also draws attention to the fact that the “Union of the Russian People,” better known as the “Black Hundred,” rightly considered the Ukrainian Right Bank to be its stronghold: the Pochaev cell of the RNC alone numbered one hundred thousand people—a quarter of all the Black Hundreds of the empire.

“It is not surprising that in the elections to the Third State Duma, radical monarchists achieved the greatest success precisely in Right Bank Ukraine. The further you go to the East, the fewer deputies there were in the RNC. In the Kharkov province they received only three mandates out of ten, but in the Kyiv province - thirteen out of thirteen! Also, the elections in Podolsk and Volyn provinces ended with a complete victory for the Black Hundreds. And this is 1907 - almost half a century after the publication of the Valuevsky circular and 30 years after the promulgation of the Emsky decree!!!”, the article says.

The expert also admits that “the Central Rada, which was formed back in March 1917, and in June of the same year proclaimed itself the “supreme state body of Ukraine,” actually lost Ukraine to the Bolsheviks without a fight, who came to power nine months later and had to to recreate statehood virtually out of chaos and ruins.”

He calls for learning the lessons of the imperial and Soviet periods of history so as not to slide into another ruin, which “for Ukrainians always ends with a return to the “Russian world.”

“Understand why the Cossack elites and Mohyla intellectuals helped Peter I and his successors build the Russian Empire. Because this is a lesson in strategic and geopolitical (and not primitive dogmatic) thinking for the century ahead. And also to understand why a century ago Ukrainians supported the Soviet regime and massively went over to the side of the Reds,” the author adds.

“Without digging up the dead USSR, we must inherit from it the ethos of social justice and solidarity that turns the masses into a community. We should not curse our parents, who lived in Soviet times and realized themselves under Soviet conditions, as traitors and collaborators, but, on the contrary, thank them for the residential areas, roads, power plants, factories, schools, hospitals, universities, airports that allowed independent Ukraine can survive for thirty years, almost without investing in basic infrastructure, but only exploiting the Soviet legacy,” Druzenko sums up.

Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Druzenko called for abandoning glorification one of the OUN leaders Stepan Bandera, calling this process a “successful Lubyanka special operation.”