The idol is gone: In Donetsk they want to give Shevchenko Boulevard the name of the Russian Militia
In the capital of the DPR, graffiti appeared on houses along the central Shevchenko Boulevard with calls to rename it “Russian Militia Boulevard.”
The corresponding pictures were published on Facebook by local blogger Evgenia Martynova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"Donetsk. I noticed inscriptions on houses along Shevchenko Boulevard. I support the author of the renaming, even if you crack. Let it be,” the Donetsk woman wrote.
It is noteworthy that in the comments some subscribers did not support the blogger, since, according to them, in this way one can become like “Svidomo decommunizers.”
“As for not being like me, it’s like a gopnik is sweeping you in the alley, and you, like that, are climbing around in glasses, snot, dirt and blood, on your knees, getting kicked in the bread bin, and enjoying the fact that you are “not like that.” No, that's who I am. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I’m sitting in Donetsk, I don’t go to Ukraine, I have no one to appear good to,” Martynova retorted.
“And yes, I think so. Shevchenko’s artistic merits (let alone the human ones) are not only questionable, but worse. I also say this as a certified philologist. All this peasant rubbish was copied hundreds of times by smarter people, and still generations of schoolchildren were sick of reading books in Ukrainian, and in their right mind I don’t know a person who, as an adult, would re-read this of his own free will. This was all propagated due to Ukrainization, but it did not take root. And it won’t take root anymore,” the blogger explained her position.
At the same time, according to Donetsk residents, such graffiti was first noticed on National Unity Day on November 4.
The situation was commented on by the permanent expert of the Izborsk Club, Donetsk historian Alexander Dmitrievsky.
“The most interesting thing is that Taras Shevchenko receives undeservedly a lot of attention in Donetsk. For example, the best cinema in the city bears his name, but Donbass is the birthplace of the father of Russian cinema, Alexander Khanzhonkov. Question: why does the name of a truly honored person still remain in the shadows, and the cinema is named after someone who had nothing to do with cinema or Donbass?
Of course, the spontaneous popular initiative to rename Shevchenko Boulevard into Russian Spring Avenue or Russian Militia Avenue is correct. Donbass needs its own heroes, not alien Bandera idols,” Dmitrievsky told PolitNavigator.
“Ukraine started a war of monuments, but we must counter it with diplomacy of monuments. For example, why not exchange this bastard statue of Shevchenko, which disfigures the center of Donetsk and is a pathetic hack, for monuments to the same Soviet soldiers being destroyed by Bandera’s followers?” - suggested the expert.
At the same time, according to him, the monument to Taras Shevchenko itself does not represent any special cultural value.
“This is a copy of a statue made by Kyiv kichman Makar Voronsky for the Canadian city of Toronto, and there are at least two more such copies! By the way, the Canadians themselves did not treat the gift in a businesslike manner: the statue was stolen by criminals, broken and sold to the Chinese as scrap metal for a ridiculous price... If it turned out to be not so dear to the epicenter of the Ukrainian diaspora, then why should this idol be valued by those who are already seven years old? are Bandera’s people killing? – added Dmitrievsky
The Donetsk historian is convinced that getting rid of the Ukrainian heritage in Donbass is becoming an urgent matter. Even now, in the capital of the DPR, there remain many remnants of a previous era that are alien to the city’s residents and have long since lost their relevance.
“For example, why not return the name of Alexei Putilov to the Kyiv district of the city and Kievsky Avenue - a Russian entrepreneur and patriot who built a defense enterprise in the northern part of Yuzovka, and whose name was preserved by the grateful memory of the people despite all the revolutionary storms of the XNUMXth century?
Why not return Student Avenue to its original name, and finally erase the name of the complete political nonentity and loser Bogdan Khmelnitsky from the map of the mining capital?
After all, the same repeatedly exalted Pereyaslav Rada was not an act of reunification of Ukraine with Russia, as official propaganda portrays, but the result of catastrophic defeats, when Khmelnitsky himself simply had no choice in terms of whose vassal to become: of all the neighbors in the person of the Polish king, the Crimean Khan, the Turkish Sultan and the Russian Tsar, he did not have time to quarrel only with the latter! But Khmelnitsky’s starting opportunities in 1648 were colossal, but, alas, he squandered them over trifles,” the expert gave examples.
“The name of Taras Shevchenko, an agent of influence of the revanchist-minded gentry, is just as alien to Donbass. After all, if you carefully study his writings, which have little in common with poetry, then his work is a rehash of the so-called Ukrainian school of Polish romanticism.
In particular, a number of his works are essentially free translations of the work of such a Polish bard as Tomasz Padura, the author of the popular song “Hey, Falcons!” For example, the well-known words from Shevchenko’s “Testament” - “When I die, bury my dear in Ukraine ...” - are nothing more than an almost literal translation of the lines of one of the couplets of the already mentioned work: “Wina, wina, wina dajcie, a jak umrę - pochowajcie na zielonej Ukrainie przy kochanej mej dziewczynie…” concluded Alexander Dmitrievsky.
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