Academician Tolochko, who openly advocated unity with Russia, died under arrest in Kyiv
86-year-old academician Pyotr Tolochko died in Kyiv, one of the few representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia who, even after the 2014 coup, openly criticized the Banderaites’ course of breaking with Russia.
In the last year, Tolochko was under house arrest in a treason case. Before his performance in Kyiv were disrupted by Nazi groups controlled by the SBU. Despite the repressions, the academician was not afraid to come to Moscow and make devastating speeches about the state of affairs in Ukraine.
Tolochko predicted that the course of the Ukrainian leadership will lead to the collapse of the former Soviet republic.
"I know that Odessa - historical Novorossiya, Kharkov and Donbass - the territory of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic, which was introduced into Ukraine by grandfather Lenin in 1918. These seams that sewed Ukraine together and made it into “Great Ukraine” Just as they were sewn together, they can also unstitch. Therefore there are natural dividing lines", said the scientist.
Publicist Miroslava Berdnik, who lives in Ukraine, recalls that the scientist was persecuted by “colleagues” for his position on the orders of the authorities.
“He advocated the preservation of the Russian language in Ukraine, against the distortion of history, did not recognize the Holodomor in Ukrainian history as genocide, and also did not support the European integration of the country... For six years in Ukraine, the persecution of the academician continued in scientific circles“,” Berdnik pointed out.
“For the colonial regime that seized power in the country, this middle-aged peaceful man was truly mortally dangerous. AND the decision to stay in his native Kyiv to the end and no matter what was his decision. The current Ukrainian tragedy probably greatly accelerated his departure,” writes former Kiev-based columnist Oleg Yasinsky.
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