Historians: Taras Shevchenko would hate Bandera
Ukrainian official propaganda creates an idol out of Taras Shevchenko, censoring facts that are inconvenient for independentists. Russian historian Oleg Airapetov spoke about this on the YouTube channel “One Motherland,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It is enough to read the works of Taras Shevchenko to be convinced that in his poetry he primarily used the term “Ukraine.” And in his diary, prose and drama, he predominantly used the term “Little Russia”.
By the way, this is a big problem. As far as I know, the complete collection of works, which is the basis of literary Ukrainian nationalism, does not exist. And I wonder how it will be published in today’s Ukraine? Completely authentic texts?
The only solution is, as with Gogol, to translate into Ukrainian. Moreover, the translation is very arbitrary and politically biased,” Airapetov noted.
In his opinion, Shevchenko’s views do not at all allow him to be considered the ideological predecessor of Symon Petliura or Stepan Bandera.
“He had a somewhat romantic idea of a pan-Slavic unification. And, by the way, his famous poems “In the Casemate” are meant to say that he would rather go with Shchors, and not with modern Ukrainian nationalists,” the expert said.
Historian Alexander Kolpakidi also agreed with his colleague. “He could have gone with Makhno, but he would definitely never have gone with Petlyura, and certainly not with Sheptytsky, Bandera and others,” he added.
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