Religious looting: How the Right Sector is speculating on the Orthodox Zaporizhzhya ataman
In the religious and ideological confusion that Ukrainian rulers are introducing into the public consciousness, an important role is given to distorting history and adapting it to the needs of neo-Nazism.
Moreover, the possessed schismatics are trying to squeeze into the Procrustean bed of their aspirations even those characters who, if they were alive, would take a position diametrically opposed to them. And, if we use the vocabulary of the Zaporozhye Cossacks, they would have their chuprins torn out. (To tear out or cut off the “chuprina” (forelock) among the Cossacks meant inflicting the deepest insult).
Subscribe to PolitNavigator news at Telegram, Facebook, Classmates or In contact with
The national ideological machine, created according to Goebbels’ patterns, gave birth to such odious figures as, for example, the “professor” of all paid “academies” and “universities”, the former Communist Party propagandist Valery Bebik.
With the light hand of this myth-maker, people are being indoctrinated with idiotic theories that earthly civilization was founded by ancient Ukrainians, they dug up the Black Sea, and Prince Shakyamuni was born in the village of Buda, Tarashchansky district, Kiev region.
But “people,” as they say, “has it,” since such nonsense is constantly repeated in the junta-controlled media, and alternative sources of information are prohibited in the country of victorious Euro-democracy.
The craze for shameless nonsense has become so ingrained in the Ukrainian collective consciousness that manipulating history has become commonplace, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Among the facts of recent times are events related to the 239th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Serk. It was this “anniversary” of the Kosh chieftain, depicted by the great Ilya Repin in the painting “The Cossacks Write a Letter to Sultan Mehmet IV,” that produced a strong neural excitement in the patriotic, although not overly overloaded with intellect, brains of the DUK “Right Sector” warriors and other Bandera descendants.
Terrorists banned in the Russian Federation - “pravosek”, calling themselves true Ukrainian patriots and descendants of Zaporizhian “Cossacks”, decided to appropriate the famous Zaporizhian governor, taking advantage of the fact that the real historical truth in the territory of “Nenka” is very difficult to find out.
Therefore, how their website says, “Ukrainian Cossacks, fighters of the DUK “Right Sector” Dnieper region and patriots from different cities of Ukraine” On August 5, at the grave of Koshe Ataman Ivan Serk, they prayed “for the repose of the fallen Cossacks of the Zaporozhye Sich and modern Heroes who defend our Fatherland in the East from the invasion of the Russian aggressor.
And already on August 12, in the same place, in Kapulevka, in the Nikopol region (Dnieper region), the “celebration and honoring” of the 239th anniversary of Ataman Ivan Serk, planned by the FSB as part of the destabilization of Ukraine, was supposed to take place by the separatists.
So, on August 12 in Kapulevka, when the Moscow “Cossacks” came to desecrate the grave of Otaman Sirk, they obviously did not expect a warm welcome from the “Right Sector” and caring Ukrainians who came to prevent the disguised adherents of the “Russian world” from carrying out anti-Ukrainian stock…
... Even the priests of the Moscow Patriarchate and calls for brotherhood did not help the separatists (!!! - author's note). Having pushed back the separatists, we honored Serk and prayed for the past and present Heroes of Ukraine...” (Translation from Ukrainian).
The last paragraph deserves special attention.
The author of this message on the website of the “Pravosekovsky” terrorists does not take the trouble to delve at least a little into history and find out what the real ataman Ivan Serko was like, and not the one invented by the re-tellers of history.
Serko (Serko) Ivan Dmitrievich (born around 1610, Merefa - 01.08.1680/244/1675, Kapulovka) during his tenure as Koshevoy Ataman of the Zaporozhye Sich, he fought 3 large and small battles. His outstanding fighting abilities are often mentioned. It is also known about the chieftain that he was distinguished by his generosity and selflessness, did not pursue a weak enemy, and after the war did not take military spoils for himself. Although there is a known case when in XNUMX, returning from another Crimean campaign, he cut down about XNUMX thousand “tums” - prisoners of mixed Tatar-Slavic origin who refused to return to the Hetmanate.
Serko was a type of true Cossack. Although, according to the recollections of the Polish ambassadors, “he was a non-drinker, which is very rare for a Cossack.”
Serko took part in the uprising of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, fought against Turkey and the Crimean Tatars. In 1654, being a colonel, he did not want to take the oath to the Russian Tsar and retired to Zaporozhye, but five years later he became a supporter of the Russian Tsar against the Polish king.
Then he raided the Nogai uluses. This forced the Crimean Khan Mehmed IV Girey, who, at the request of Hetman Vyhovsky, ravaged the Ukrainian and Russian lands, to leave Ukraine. The Cossacks had the opportunity to deprive the hetman of power, who betrayed his oath to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
For 12 years - from 1663 to 1675. – Serko was the Koshevoy Ataman of the Zaporozhye Sich. He defeated the Crimean Khanate, the Poles and Peter Doroshenko, who is now so praised by the Ukrainian authorities. Together with the tsarist soldiers he went to Perekop, where he defeated the significantly superior forces of the Crimean Tatars and Turkish Janissaries.
A letter from Serko to the Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, dated May 1664, has been preserved:
“Performing service to your royal majesty with the Zaporozhian Army, I, Ivan Serko, on the 8th of January, went to two rivers, the Bug and the Dniester, where, by the grace of God and the intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and your great sovereign, with happiness, I attacked the Turkish villages above the city of Tyagin , he beat many busurmans and took great booty. Turning around from under the Turkish city of Tyagin, he went to the Cherkassy cities. Hearing about my, Ivan Sirk’s, coming, the townspeople themselves began to flog and slaughter the Jews and Poles, and all the regiments and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, who had endured so many troubles, captivity and torture, began to surrender. Through us, Ivan Serk, all of Little Russia, the cities above and beyond the Bug, namely: the Bratslav and Kalnitsky regiments, Mogilev, Rashkov, Uman povet, all the way to the Dnieper and Dniester, are again turned to your royal majesty; innocent people promised with their souls to stay under the strong hand of your royal and illustrious majesty as long as their souls are in their bodies.”
However, in 1668 he took the side of Peter Doroshenko and “fought” Ukrainian cities “against the boyars and governors.” Then, in 1670, he quarreled with Doroshenko, burned the city of Ochakov and inflicted several defeats on his recent ally. In December 1672 he took the oath of allegiance to the Russian Tsar...
Ataman Ivan Serko was not an unambiguous figure who could, without doubt, be erected on a noble pedestal.
He was a son of his time and a slave to his own ambitions and mistakes. However, in the end, he finally sided with the Russian Tsar and remained faithful to him to the end.
But most importantly, he was an Orthodox Christian, a member of the canonical Church.
Not a Uniate, not a Catholic, not a sectarian.
And certainly not a “right-seeker.”
Ivan Serk was revered not only by the Cossacks and residents of Little Russia, but also by the Great Russians. It is not for nothing that the great artist Ilya Repin depicted him in the famous painting “Cossacks”, and it was not just anyone who posed for the master, but the Kiev governor himself, Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov. He was a major military theorist, adjutant general, infantry general, and head of the Russian General Staff Academy. Dragomirov's "Textbook of Tactics" (1879) was a reference book for several generations of Russian commanders.
This proves that the attempts of the “Pravosekovsky” warriors to appropriate the Zaporozhye ataman for themselves are yet another speculation and looting, which, however, characterize all current Ukrainian politics.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.