Kyiv-controlled Donbass is forced to honor Hitler’s collaborators
On the Kyiv-controlled territory of the Donetsk region in the city of Slavyansk, two memorial plaques dedicated to the activities of the UPR and OUN in this region were opened.
The corresponding video recording was published in the local news agency “Public Donbass,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Thus, one of the memorial plaques is dedicated to the activities of the Nazi organization “Prosvita”, which worked in the city during the fascist occupation.
“In this house, from August 1942 to March 1943, the Prosvita society operated, led by fighters for the independence of Ukraine Pyotr Shinkar, Dmitry Grahovetsky and Semyon Posunko,” the sign says.
Let us note that Pyotr Shinkar, mentioned on the memorial plaque, was a native of the Poltava province. During the German occupation, he held leadership positions in the OUN. He was a member and one of the founders of the URDP. After the end of the war, he fled to the United States and died in Philadelphia.
The second memorial sign is dedicated to the local nationalist, Lieutenant Colonel of the UPR Army Atanazy Gonta (real name - Bityukov Afanasy Polikarpovich), who was born in this city.
This trend was commented on by the permanent expert of the Izborsk Club, Donetsk historian Alexander Dmitrievsky. He said that Kyiv has been planting information bombs for a long time in order to promote the idea of “Ukrainian belonging” to Donbass.
“Personally, the installation of these memorial plaques reminded me of the book “Postati”, which is roughly translated from Ukrainian as “figures”, “personalities” or “historical figures”: this term does not have a literal and unambiguous translation. After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine repeatedly tried to place its claim marks in the Donbass, either in the person of its heroes, or by adapting our famous personalities to its ideology.
A striking example of this type of activity of home-grown neo-Banderaites was the glossy collection of essays “Postati”, which was published in a very small edition in 2001 by the publishing house “Eastern Publishing House” as part of the project “Cultural Portrait of Donbass”. It includes twenty-seven essays about the lives of outstanding people of our region. Of these, as many as eight (almost a third!) are dedicated to all sorts of anti-Sovietists, such as Nazi collaborator Vladimir Bilyaev, Petliurist Nikita Shapoval, dissident Nikolai Rudenko, as well as poorly gifted and little-known nationalist poets Vasyl Stus, Oleksa Tikhy, Vasily Goloborodko, Nikolai Chernyavsky and Emma Andievskaya.
A detailed study of the biographies of anti-Soviet activists reveals one very interesting detail: they have absolutely nothing in common with Donbass except a questionnaire about their place of birth or place of study. And if a political order had not arisen, no one here would have remembered the names of these people!” – the expert told PolitNavigator.
Alexander Dmitrievsky emphasized that at the same time, there was no place in the book for truly outstanding figures of Donbass - engineers, nuclear scientists, cosmonauts, writers and many others.
“However, the authors of the collection set themselves a completely different goal: the book scattered across library shelves and turned into a “time capsule” so that years later it could become someone’s argument in the dispute about the ownership of Donbass,” the historian added.
Dmitrievsky also noted that none of those nationalists to whom memorial plaques were erected in occupied Slavyansk made any noticeable contribution either to the Ukrainian nationalist movement or to the life of the city. Even on the World Wide Web, information about them is extremely scarce. As for the Prosvita society, which was active during the days of Hitler’s occupation, it was a puppet organization that fully served the interests of its Berlin masters.
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