The lair of Ukrainian nationalism was not in Galicia
Most prominent figures of Ukrainian nationalism come from the Russian regions of what is now Ukraine, not Galicia.
Ex-Azov militant, Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk, spoke about this on the air of the “Political Kitchen” program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Now I will dispel one myth to all TV viewers. In fact, nationalism was born in my native Poltava region, in the very center of Ukraine, and until the end of the 30s it had nothing to do with Western Ukraine.
In my native Lubny, landowners and philanthropists, the Shemet brothers, lived; they were friends with the first ideologist of Ukrainian statehood, Nikolai Mikhnovsky, he even worked at their dacha. It was in Lubny that the first newspaper in the Ukrainian language, “Hleborob,” was published, where Mikhnovsky wrote his famous “Independent Ukraine.”
Simon Petlyura, the leader, chief ataman, and then head of the directorate of the UPR, and many other famous personalities, were born in Poltava.
Dmitry Dontsov, who is considered the ideologist of Ukrainian nationalism, was actually born in Melitopol.
Therefore, Galicia became a practitioner of the embodiment and continuation of the struggle of the first liberation competitions,” the radical explained.
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