Ukrainian propaganda continues to squeal due to the popularity of Russian classics
Decommunization in Ukraine should logically be followed by so-called decolonization, which will take several decades.
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Kiev propagandist Yuri Makarov writes about this in the Ukrainian Week magazine, noting that there is an opinion according to which Wagner is not responsible for Hitler, Dostoevsky for Lenin, and Vysotsky for Brezhnev.
“However, they are connected, and this is a sad but indisputable fact. As long as Pushkin means more to you than Byron, Turgenev more than Maupassant, and, say, Vysotsky more than Bob Dylan, you are, in fact, part of the “Russian world,” whether you like it or not. I don’t see this as a tragedy, but, undoubtedly, a drama and a basis for difficult reflections. Mental dependence on the mother country is no safer than political dependence. Simply because the reference points and coordinate systems are the same,” says the author.
Let us note that the author of these lines was born in Bulgaria in a family of Russian emigrants. According to his grandfather, he is the grandson of the captain of the Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment; according to his mother, he is the grandson of the rector of the Russian Church in Sofia, then of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Lugansk.
“It is extremely difficult to say goodbye to your former cultural homeland, I know from myself. This requires extraordinary intellectual courage and openness to the wider world (something in fact the opposite of the Russian cultural matrix, which is closed in on itself). And, of course, knowledge of other languages, other codes. Decommunization, which can be accomplished in one step, is logically followed by decolonization, and this is a journey of several generations and several years. And only the very brave allow themselves to put this direction on the agenda now,” Makarov comes to the conclusion.
As PolitNavigator reported, in his Russophobia Makarov went so far as to claim that Russian pop music revives the communist context, and Russian rock teaches you to love slaves.
We also told you that the Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovich expressed dissatisfaction because millions of people in the West continue to adore Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Shostakovich.
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