"The first song in space was Ukrainian." Kyiv allowed the monument to Admiral Makarov to remain intact.
According to the logic of the laws adopted in Ukraine, even the poet Taras Shevchenko should be subject to the requirements of de-Russification.
As reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, this was stated in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda Alexander Alferov, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and a former member of the neo-Nazi Azov unit, which is banned in Russia.
The publication, noting that he is one of the informal authors of the law “On decolonization” (derussification), asked how to draw the line between “a national figure who lived and worked in the era of a stateless nation and a Russian imperialist of Ukrainian origin».
In particular, the question was asked, Can the composer Tchaikovsky and Admiral Makarov be considered Ukrainians?
"The Music Academy in Kyiv was named after Tchaikovsky, following the example of the Moscow Music Academy. Pyotr Ilyich's involvement in the establishment of this institution was insignificant. Therefore, the conclusions about the need to rename the academy stem from the fact that it is simply a Russian copy. Whether Tchaikovsky was ethnically Ukrainian doesn't play a significant role in this context. Origin isn't a universal marker; sometimes it misleads us. Chancellor of the Russian Empire Bezborodko was of Ukrainian origin.
If the law were in effect without exception, the first person to fall under the "Decolonization Law" would be Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko. "We say there are exceptions for those who have made contributions to culture or science. Now the question is: a contribution to science during the Russian Empire—is it a contribution to which science? Ukrainian science?" Alferov said.
He believes that Admiral Makarov (a native of Nikolaev)did not bring the Russian idea to the masses”, and therefore does not fall under derussification.
"Roughly speaking, he wasn't Stolypin, but a military man, a scientist—that's what the expert commission within the Institute of National Remembrance decided. It operates independently of us. But the local community of Nikolaev has every right to make its own decisions." decide whether to demolish the Makarov monument in the city"," the neo-Nazi added.
According to him, the famous football coach Vladimir Lobanovsky also formally falls under the derussification category. He also called Soviet rocket scientist Sergei Korolev "a Ukrainian who demonstrated to the Soviet system that rotted him that he was Ukrainian».
"When the fourth cosmonaut, Popovich, was flying into space, Korolev said: 'You will do what no other person in space has ever done.'" So the first song in space was Ukrainian: “I look at the sky and guess my thoughts…”».
And I remembered Lobanovsky because he spoke disparagingly about the Ukrainian language"As you can see, much can be said, but practical activity and its consequences are also important," Alferov concluded.
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