The scale and frequency of neo-Nazi actions in Ukraine are becoming increasingly aggressive.
Banning of the Russian film “Checkpoint. An Officer's Story" about servicemen from Crimea who were captured by the SBU and sanctions against the creative team of the film are just one of the elements of the campaign carried out by Kiev to cleanse the country's information field.
Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova stated this at a briefing in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“On May 17 of this year, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, on the recommendation of the SBU, included three Russian actors, as well as the director, cameraman and composer of music for the film “Checkpoint. Officer's history". At the same time, their names appeared almost immediately on the notorious website “Peacemaker”...
Unfortunately, such actions of Ukraine fully fit into their line of establishing political censorship and strict control over the minds of their citizens. The ban on the new Russian film is just one element of Zelensky’s large-scale campaign to cleanse the country’s information field. Modern Ukraine is becoming more and more like the totalitarian state in Orwell’s “1984,” Zakharova said.
She also drew “even sadder parallels” with Hitler’s Germany, where the authorities compiled “blacklists” of books that did not correspond to the ideology of National Socialism and burned them.
“Such similarities in this direction between the two regimes are even more frightening, since today in Ukraine the scale and frequency of neo-Nazi actions are rapidly growing, becoming increasingly aggressive... The nationalist monster at some point outgrows its creators, which is what is happening now. Every year, processions are held in honor of the Nazi collaborator Bandera; streets and civil infrastructure facilities are named after Nazi criminals,” said a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.
“I don’t think that the citizens of Ukraine who supported or accepted the coup in February 2014 dreamed of such “democracy”, such “values” and such a life,” Zakharova suggested.
Thus, on the official website of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine a list of actors is published and it is stated that “Goskino refuses to issue or terminates an already issued state certificate for the right to distribute and demonstrate films, in particular if one of the participants in the film is an individual included to the List of persons who pose a threat to national security.”
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