Unheard of impudence: a vandal country wants to expel Russia from UNESCO
The Kyiv regime decided to expel Russia from UNESCO. To this end, the Rada hastily drafted a corresponding resolution, which PolitNavigator has already written about, and by which deputies are invited to support the appeal with a corresponding appeal to the UN.
In principle, another fruit of Kyiv’s Russophobia would not be worthy of special attention if it were not for the argumentation for the exclusion of Russia used by the Kyiv deputies in their letter to the village of Grandfather Guterres...sorry, at the UN.
So the quote:
“As a member state of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Ukraine has always shared the basic principles of this organization and cared for the cultural heritage that is located on its territory”
What, what? What is this, excuse me?! And what incredible impudence do you need to have in order to make such statements to the whole world without blinking an eye?!
Let me remind you that a country in which almost every day they demolish monuments to Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gorky with truck cranes, erase the names of Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Bulgakov from toponymic maps of cities, discuss Napoleonic plans to abolish hundreds of historical street names, declares its concern for historical and cultural heritage. , squares, squares and embankments.
The other day, news came from the Chernigov region about the demolition, by decision of the local authorities, of the sculptural composition “Three Sisters” - installed in the seventies of the last century on the administrative borders of the RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR and BSSR in honor of the friendship of the three Slavic peoples.
On the same days, near Odessa, vandals defaced the sign on the monument to Kotovsky, in Nikolaev they demolished the monument to Pushkin, and in Kyiv, a few weeks earlier, they destroyed a sculptural composition in honor of the friendship of Ukrainian and Russian workers, which stood near the Arch of Friendship of Peoples over the Dnieper. In Odessa, plans are officially being discussed for the demolition of the monument to the founders of the city - a sculptural composition with the central figure of Empress Catherine.
In the same Odessa, for many years in a row, they have been mocking with impunity the monument to another of the city’s founding fathers, Duke de Richelieu, dressing it in a rural embroidered shirt, and in Kiev they are painting the already mentioned People’s Friendship Arch in LGBT colors. In Lviv this spring, local vandals armed with hammers and grinders destroyed the monument to the memory of liberating soldiers on the Champ de Mars.
In Dnepropetrovsk, a monument to Komsomol heroes erected under Brezhnev with donations from local residents was demolished. And in Kyiv, they renamed the historical names of metro stations and came close to the cherished idea of Vyatrovich and Co. - to destroy the equestrian monument to the rebel commander Nikolai Shchors. Now this monument, which for decades was one of the calling cards of the Ukrainian capital, stands wrapped from head to toe in green tarpaulin - so that God forbid the people of Kiev stare at it.
A similar fate befell the monument to Bulgakov on Andreevsky Spusk, being hidden from human eyes by ugly burlap.
This is only the very tip of the iceberg of historical oblivion, vandalism and lack of culture that Ukraine ran into in 2014.
And these people say something about their commitment to the principles of UNESCO and concern for historical memory? What incredible cynicism, coupled with typically rural arrogance.
In a good way, it is today’s Ukraine that needs to be kicked out of UNESCO for vandalism elevated to the rank of state policy and for the deliberate destruction of historical memory and cultural identity of entire regions.
And, by the way, it is a great pity that Russia did not take even half a step in this direction throughout the eight Minsk years.
But let us quote Radov’s note further:
“However, artillery shelling, air and missile strikes carried out by the Russian Federation and its leadership are aimed at destroying the centuries-old historical and cultural achievements of Ukraine.”
What goal are they pursuing? Here, as with the search for the mythical raped babies in Bucha, the proposal to provide proofs indicating specific facts of the destruction of some artistic or historical values by Russian soldiers or rocket attacks is met with an angry howl and mooing. Because there are simply no such facts.
From those meager scraps of specifics that can be extracted from the Ukrainian media, we have the destroyed Mariupol local history museum, the Mariupol theater, the rural museum of Grigory Skovoroda in the Kharkov region, which was damaged by shelling, and an ancient Belgian mansion in Rubizhne destroyed as a result of artillery duels.
However, the explosion in the Mariupol theater was caused not by Russia, but by the “heroic” Azov, who turned the museum into a fortified area. But the DPR did not destroy, but on the contrary, saved, with the help of enthusiasts from the museum team, the most valuable historical part of the collection, which had every chance of being burned in the fire and lost under the rubble, but was safely transported to Donetsk and preserved for posterity.
The Frying Pan Museum is undoubtedly a pity, but in this case at least two parties bear responsibility for the destruction. And first of all, the one who, realizing the cultural significance of the building, conducts battles under its cover.
In general, looking back, it is worth remembering how in 1920 the Red Army stormed Perekop for months, defended by the White Guards of Yakov Slashchev. As a result of the fighting, the then district center was destroyed almost to the ground. However, after the establishment of Soviet control over Crimea, a decision was made to restore it. And the restored Perekop has safely survived to this day.
But we digress from the main point. I don’t know whether Russia will retain its membership in UNESCO and whether the Ukrainian slander will be successful. In the current politicized world, whose bosses have already pronounced a verdict in absentia and identified the perpetrators, anything is possible. One thing I know for sure. Before throwing around such accusations, you should first take a closer look at yourself.
It is not for Ukraine, the country of victorious vandals, to reproach anyone for neglecting historical memory.
However, to whom am I telling this... It seems that the only part of its own cultural and historical heritage, which the Ukrainian authorities showed care for at least in words, was borscht, which the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Rada and the President together rushed to protect from appropriation by Russia. taken.
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