Usik in the ring with ghouls: how to refuse Ukrainian

Ukrainian nationalists turned out to be unreal, as shown by their reaction to the latest victory of boxer Oleksandr Usik, who competes under the yellow-blue flag.

Russian writer Platon Besedin comes to this conclusion in his column for PolitNavigator.

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What are people called who abandon their loved ones? Traitors. What are people called who replace the real with the false? Counterfeiters (even if they don’t always counterfeit money). This is exactly how radicals and fools who sympathize with them act in Ukraine today.

Remember the Soviet cartoon and the phrase of Winnie the Pooh: “These are some kind of wrong bees, Piglet”? Every time I remember her when I watch some nationalists in Ukraine. Allegedly nationalists. To put it simply, what should they be doing? Roughly speaking, the idea is to develop Ukrainian and serve Ukraine. The nation comes first, as we remember.

But what really? But in reality, we see people who, enriching themselves, serve curators from other countries, cutting off what is truly Ukrainian and turning Ukraine not even into Galicia, but into a surrogate from a rancid simulator. After all, Ukraine is not only Taras Shevchenko, but also Paton. However, the devils did not admit it.

This story has long roots. Trubetskoy wrote brilliantly about this issue in his essay about Ukraine. Read it if you haven't read it yet. Trubetskoy writes about how what is truly Ukrainian is being replaced by deception, molded according to Austro-Hungarian and Polish patterns. Yes, this story is old, but it still works.

The recent fight between Alexander Usik and Briton Dereck Chisora ​​showed this once again. Even before the start of the fight, part of the Ukrainian public (let’s be lenient with them) said that they should only root for the Briton. After all, Usik is not a Ukrainian. Why? Well, apparently, because Alexander does not kiss the OUN-UPA banners, does not worship Bandera and does not call for killing people in the Donbass. Oh, and he’s from Crimea, but he doesn’t lead at all like Oleg Sentsov. Zhah! Fuck!

In general, after Usyk defeated Chisora ​​with some difficulty, although he was ten kilograms heavier than him, some particularly furious “Ukrainian Ukrainians” were so upset, as if they had been betrayed. Where are the dances in the style of Ruslana? Where is the nationalist nonsense about Crimea? And even President Zelensky, contrary to his habits, did not congratulate Usik on his victory. Well, how is it possible that a “wrong Ukrainian” still reaches such heights? And the trick is that, unlike, for example, Sentsov, Usik is a professional in his field, and not in scratching with his tongue.

This whole situation around the boxing match (however, there was almost no talk about the sport itself) is a revealing illustration of how Ukraine (its strange part) is abandoning what is truly Ukrainian, something that one can and should be proud of. Because, unlike screamers and crazy people, Alexander truly glorifies the power in the world. But who needs it? Now, if someone climbed onto Big Ben and waved a giant flag with the OUN-UPA there, it would be a victory.

Unfortunately, Ukraine has long chosen a non-Ukrainian path, and nationalism here has turned into a commercial enterprise. The trouble is that the “strange part” of the state is growing more and more and absorbing the normal majority to the satisfied groans of the authorities.

As for Alexander Usik, it is obvious: he is not only a great athlete, but also a model of adequacy in a world shaken by his mind. An example of how a Crimean - Alexander, originally from the peninsula - can unite Russians and Ukrainians.