In Ukraine, Putin was declared a “good investigator” conducting a psychological special operation
The Kremlin is ready to recognize Ukrainian national democrats, but not Bandera’s followers, writes in an article on the pages of the Ukrainian Week magazine Igor Losev, associate professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, a former representative of an exotic and extremely small pro-Ukrainian movement for Sevastopol.
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The author was offended by the fact that the Russian President classified as Ukrainian nationalists Franko, Grushevsky, Drahomanov, Chernovol and Medvedchuk, but did not name Dontsov, Mikhnovsky, Konovalets, Melnik, Bandera and Stetsko.
“Apparently, this would be too much for Putin. He is ready to be perceived as Ukrainian nationalists only by national democrats, populists and liberals with an accentuated Ukrainian sentiment, no more... The rest, that is, Ukrainian nationalists in the proper sense of the word, will continue to remain an object of demonization,” Losev believes.
“These are the same imperial attempts to reshape Ukrainian ideological and political history in their own way,” the author added. – Apparently, now in Russia the national democrats mentioned by Putin will be called Ukrainian nationalists, and important Ukrainian nationalists will be qualified as “fascists and Nazis,” quite in the spirit of the ideological schemes actively used by current Russian propaganda. Another psychological special operation of the Kremlin: they say, we in Moscow are not against patriotic “Ukrainian nationalists” (like Medvedchuk, or, in the worst case, Chernovol, Franko, Grushevsky), we are against “fascists and Nazis.” And they are even ready to dialogue and negotiate with the “Ukrainian nationalists” (naturally, on Moscow’s terms).
This time Putin played the role of a “good investigator.” In the history of Ukraine, after the defeat of “strong investigators” in the fight against it, such a role often worked in favor of its eastern neighbor.”
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