Scandal in Galicia: Bandera was returned to its primitive state
The “icon” of Ukrainian nationalism, the leader of a part of the split OUN Stepan Bandera, was depicted as a primitive man on a monument erected in the village of Sosnovka, Lviv region.
The director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, drew attention to this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Dolinsky noted with irony that Ukraine needs to pass a separate law on Bandera.
“The absence of a special Ukrainian law on Bandera leads to the fact that each sculptor sees the guide in his own way. For example, in Sosnovka they depicted Stepan Andreevich with brow ridges, like a primitive man in the reconstruction of Academician Gerasimov,” wrote Dolinsky.
“A special law will not be enough. We need a separate ministry,” adds user Ilya Belyaev in the comments.
“Yes, far from North Korea and Ukraine - all the busts of the leader there correspond to Juche standards. It’s time for the Institute of Memory to standardize the image of the great leader. Well, maybe in different regions, to give national flavor to clothes,” Alexander Tolchinsky continues the irony.
Evgeny Slutsky notes that nationalists fighting the communist legacy themselves repeated Soviet practice: “Well, this is the Soviet Union in its worst manifestation! In the same way, Lenin was different in each region. In Kyrgyzstan he looked a little like a Kyrgyz, in Estonia he looked a little like an Estonian. Fucking revolutionaries!”
And a user named Vladimir Sterling noted that the current monument to Bandera combines all things Ukrainian.
“I like: the form must correspond to the content! All his followers degenerate into a primitive state: tribal relations, animal aggression against everything incomprehensible, gathering in flocks, primitive cults of fire worship! Faces, too, gradually lose traces of the presence of intelligence,” says Sterling.
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