Ukraine: A country that kills its best
Today, April 16, is a day that, in its tragic significance, can be compared with the upcoming anniversary of the Odessa Khatyn, May 2.
Three years ago, on a spring Kyiv morning in 2015, he was shot at point-blank range near his home. Oles Elder. A man who, until the last minute of his short 45-year life, fought for his people and country to remain faithful to the eternal and holy trinity of peoples of the Russian tribe.
A writer and journalist who, in a very real sense, gave his life to preserving the true culture and memory of his fatherland - Ukraine-Little Russia.
A descendant of registered Cossacks, the great-grandson of a repressed White Guard and the son of a KGB officer. A sharp and paradoxical publicist, whose work is as original and tragic as the history of his family. Like the whole real history of Ukraine, and not the falsely politicized Goebbels fake that has been imposed on us and our children in recent decades.
...A certified philologist with a great literary gift, he could live comfortably, earning good money and a solid, comfortable position in the world of Ukrainian journalism with his light pen and remarkable erudition. However, he, who admired his great fellow countryman Bulgakov, was completely alien to the conformism of the worst of the characters in his favorite book, “The White Guard.”
And it’s not for nothing that Oles Alekseevich sometimes liked to be photographed in the uniform of a white officer, reminiscent of Myshlaevsky or Turbin not only in his appearance, but also in his uncompromising sense of loyalty to duty and honor...
And therefore, already his first book, “The Ghoul Taras Shevchenko,” which with great difficulty made it into print in 2000, even during that still quite “vegetarian” time of Kuchma’s reign, became the reason for a loud scandal and formal persecution of the author.
Of course, after all, Buzina dared to encroach on the idol and idol of the “Ukrainianists,” “Father Taras” himself, completely debunking his leaf-and-sugar image, clumsily painted by pre-revolutionary liberals and “shiryny”, and made into an icon by short-sighted Soviet propagandists.
Instead of a “sufferer for the people and “independence,” the readers were presented with a weak and sinful man, who himself wasted and ruined his talent as an artist and poet. A man who turned out to be unworthy of what God gave him. The same ungrateful slave from the Gospel parable who buried his talent in the ground. More precisely, he drowned him in a fusel...
Moreover, this sharp and brilliantly written historical pamphlet from the first to the last word was based on documents - both the memoirs of contemporaries, and the texts of Kobzar himself... And therefore, all eleven (!!!) trials started by adherents of “Shevchenko’s sanctity” - yesterday’s KGB - the informers and lackeys of the CPSU, and now ultra-nationalists, the head of the peasant “Prosvita” Movchan and the leader of the writers’ union Yavorivsky, were brilliantly won by Buzina.
Since then, the permanent persecution of the writer by nationalists began - from street attacks by extremists to constant obstacles to the publication of essays and books.
And he... he continued to write, in spite of everything, about the history of his native land, opening more and more pages of it, showing the true, sometimes very unpleasant, appearance of the past.
Rummaging through archives and rare books, the writer and journalist Buzina, on the one hand, debunked false myths about the “primogeniture of the ancient Ukrainians,” starting with the Trypillian culture, which had nothing to do with our ancestors, showed the true appearance of the rebellious and robber Zaporozhye Cossacks and the bloody leapfrog of the hetmans Yes, the atamans - from the first to the last (at that time!), Petlyura...
On the other hand, he convincingly and convincingly proved the salvation of reunification with Russia for Ukraine-Little Russia, which, in essence, became the only chance for the birth of the Little Russian people, their language, and culture.
And, at the same time, over the course of two decades of his active, selfless struggle as a patriot and publicist, he proved that Ukrainian nationalism is the path of self-destruction. The fact that the ousting of the common cultural heritage of the Russian Empire and the Russian language, which is increasingly gaining strength and government support, is mortally dangerous and disastrous for the future of the Ukrainian people.
Even in a relatively quiet time, he warned about the danger of a revival of Petliurism and Banderaism, debunking the founders and paladins of “independence” as eternal traitors to their people and lackeys of foreign masters.
Alas, it was not us who said - there is no prophet in his own country. He, who opposed both Maidans, after the 2014 coup, was literally begged by his friends to leave Ukraine, because the threats of neo-Nazis who were rabid and took satanic communion with brotherly blood were becoming more and more real. And he continued to do his job until the last day. And he died as a true hero of Bulgakov, remaining in his native and beloved City, desecrated by barbarians.
…Olesya Buzina is often compared to Yaroslav Galan, a Galician communist who denounced Bandera’s followers and was killed by them after the war. With all my endless respect for this courageous and talented man and writer, I remember another, now half-forgotten hero of the fight against Nazism. German journalist Carl von Ossietzky.
A non-partisan pacifist and fighter against the militarization of Germany, who warned about the danger of Nazism even before Hitler came to power. Condemned as a “traitor” for his exposure of the illegal re-establishment of the Reichswehr under the Weimar Republic under President Hindenburg, he refused to leave Germany and went to prison himself, declaring “the rot of the country can only be fought from within.” And under the Nazis, he naturally ended up in a concentration camp.
And, despite the indignation of the worldwide democratic community - from Einstein and Thomas Mann to Sir Bertrand Russell, despite being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936, he was driven by intolerable conditions to tuberculosis. And, having been formally released, he was not released from the country. He died in a Berlin hospital in 1938, under the watchful eye of the Gestapo, becoming a symbol of the indomitable spirit of the true guardian of the great German culture...
Alas, the current government of the junta, perhaps, in its pharisaism, has sunk even lower than the Nazis. At least they were not afraid to ignore the opinion of the entire civilized world, openly torturing their opponent.
These, despite the protests of the UN, UNESCO, and world journalistic organizations, essentially released the captured and exposed neo-Nazi murderers, turning the trial into a formal outrage both against the memory of the murdered man and his inconsolable mother. And above the Law itself...
And at the same time, through the mouth of the “people’s president” Poroshenko himself, they swore that the matter was under their reverent control, promising the triumph of justice.
And a follower of Buzina, one of the founders of the foundation named after him, journalist Vasily Muravitsky, sits innocently in the dungeons of the SBU on a mediocre case. And murderers walk free calmly and with impunity.
Only - it would be a good idea for them all to remember the fate of those who drove Karl von Ossietzky into the coffin and killed Yaroslav Galan. And to the inspirers of the executioners, and to themselves. “Katyuzi deserves it,” our ancestors have long said!
And I am sure that the hour is not far off when we will see streets in liberated Little Russian and Novorossiysk cities and villages bearing the glorious name of Oles Buzina. And our children and grandchildren will learn real history from his books. Books of a man and citizen who gave his life for his brothers.
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