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In 1906, in Austro-Hungarian Lemberg (also Lvov, populated by Poles and Jews), an article by professor-historian Mikhail Grushevsky “Ukrainian Piedmont” was published. In it, a native of Little Russia argued that the unification of Ukraine would come from Galicia as the most developed and free territory for the settlement of a divided people. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte And for excellence...
It seems to many that “unia” is some kind of call for some kind of “unity,” but in reality this is not the case. Uniateism arose as a result of very specific “European statesmen” (some of them were also priests of the pseudo-religious-political organization “Roman Catholic Church” formed after 1054) - to subordinate to their influence the peoples whom the Holy Gospel and the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church...
Every nation has writers who personified the most talented and brightest in the national character. And it is not at all accidental - often these are humorists and satirists. Those who are not afraid to show their fellow tribesmen at times funny and at times disgusting. Those who, lovingly, have the high gift of exposing the shortcomings of national character and existence, strive to cure them. Subscribe to news...
Galicia, a region that for centuries was outside the orbit of development of its half-brothers, has developed its own specific worldview, its own behavioral stereotypes, which sharply distinguish it from what we know about the Ukrainian national character from a school literature course. Documents from 1939-1944 will help you understand these differences. Soviet secret services. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook,...
Among the “Svidomites” there is a generally accepted idea of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a “kind grandmother” who looked after and cherished her Ukrainian pets. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte They say that in the “most liberal and democratic” monarchy of the then Europe, Ukrainians were literally carried in their arms. In its part, Galicia, “independence”, the very Uniate idea of “Ukrainian Ukraine,” matured. Yes,…
It was scary to hear Bandera’s greeting “Glory to Ukraine!” during the Kyiv “Euromaidan!” - "Glory to heroes!" and see the Poles supporting it. Reason refused to accept: the Poles, who suffered so much from the OUN-UPA, contributed to the establishment of its ideology in Ukraine! But the huge portrait of Stepan Bandera above the entrance to the Kiev City Council was easily visible from Warsaw... Subscribe to the PolitNavigator - Kyiv news in...
Civil war has many faces. Here there is a confrontation between patriots and agents of other states, and a confrontation between generations, and a confrontation between peoples. But any turmoil contains a confrontation between statists and adventurers. The adventurers' victory prolongs the turmoil. A striking example of this is the fate of General Keller. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The death of General Keller on the night...
Modern Ukrainian historians and politicians are very fond of arguing that Russia colonized the lands of the current “Independence”, and its inhabitants were under the heavy oppression of the “Muscovites”. However, the facts tell a completely different story. In Russia at that time, serfdom existed and the situation of the peasants, who made up the bulk of the population, was difficult. However, such orders existed throughout the country and, undoubtedly, none...
This paraphrased sarcastic expression of Ilf and Petrov comes to mind every time Mikhail Grushevsky is mentioned. The official history of independent Ukraine portrays him as the “Zeus of national history” and the “founder of the Ukrainian state.” Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Meanwhile, his whole life was a series of betrayals by an opportunist who subordinated both scientific and political activities to one:...
What should be understood by the strange phrase “Ukrainian Ukraine” - is it “butter”, or something completely different? What forces are fighting for “UU”, what are their chances for “peremoga”? And why should the answer to both questions be sought in the history of Uniatism? Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Half of the Euromaidan participants are Greek Catholics, the apostolic boasted...
The leader of the neo-Nazi party VO "Svoboda" Oleg Tyagnybok is proud of his maternal origin from a family of Uniate priests, politicians and scientists Tsegelsky. The most famous of them, the brother of his great-grandfather Tyagnybok Longin, was one of the leaders of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (WUNR) and read out the act on the so-called on Sophia Square in Kyiv. "Zluka" January 22, 1919. It is his views that...
The numbers of victims of Nazi executions throughout Europe during the Second World War somehow do not reach our consciousness. It is not able to imagine one and a half million executed. Even a hundred thousand executed is difficult to imagine for anyone who has buried at least one person close to him. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte On the outskirts of Kyiv, in Babi Yar...
"Soldier. (...) We have a proverb: crests are no good, but they have a good voice. Mikhailo. No good? No, servant, your proverb is no longer suitable anywhere. Axis look at the capital, at one and at another, then look at the Senate, then throw at the ministers, then say - what suits our kudi, what...
It is impossible to understand the history of Ukraine at the beginning of the 1920th and beginning of the 1939st centuries without studying the history of Poland. Moreover, the history of Ukraine will be a mystery if you do not know the activities and personality of Józef Pilsudski, the creator of the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (XNUMX-XNUMX). Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Ode to hatred Zyuk (as Jozef Pilsudski was called by his relatives) parents, as well as...
