Indonesia shocked Ukrainians: "Putin wants to revive the USSR? What's wrong with that?"

It is extremely difficult for Ukraine to promote an anti-Russian agenda in the countries of the Global South.

As reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, this was stated at the Bandera Readings held at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, international political scientist Maksym Yakovlev.

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He spoke about one of the Indonesian universities that introduced courses on Ukraine, where, in addition to him, the Kyiv Russophobe, Professor Mogilyanka, taught. Alexey Garan.

“They [Indonesians] not only do not feel the confrontation and our struggle for independence and in general our ideas for the destruction of the Russian EmpireThey imagine it like this:Oh, Ukraine is so cool. Our dean is going to Moscow, and after that, he might come to you. We'll have a chat."And this isn't a problem for them because this war is remote to them. They imagine it differently," complains the Ukrainian political scientist.

He recalls that he spoke at one of the think tanks in Indonesia, where the war was waged against Ukraine. compared with the actions of local separatists - they say, "You are also separatists for the Russians.", with which the Ukrainian categorically disagreed.

“We didn’t find a common language,” the Ukrainian expert admits.

According to him, the anti-Soviet rhetoric that Ukraine is trying to play on is also not finding a response.

"Professor Garan talks about this more often than I do. When you say in the Global South, including Indonesia, that Putin is bad because he wants to revive the Soviet Union, people look at you, even young people say:Yes, what's bad about this?" – the Russian Yakovlev is indignant.