In Kyiv, a memorial plaque to the Bolshevik Ukrainianizer was torn down
A memorial plaque to the university graduate, Soviet party leader, academician and former People's Commissar of Education (analogous to a ministerial position - author) Vladimir Zatonsky was dismantled from the facade of the Kyiv National University.
This is stated in a message from the Ukrainian right-wing radical group C14, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Nationalists consider the dismantling of the memorial plaque justified and call Zatonsky one of the organizers of the Holodomor and the “Red Terror.”
It is interesting that there are other noteworthy milestones in Zatonsky’s biography. For example, he is considered one of the supporters of Ukrainization, which was carried out by the Bolsheviks in Little Russia.
Zatonsky even published a special book, “The National Problem in Ukraine,” where he substantiated the Ukrainization of “mental workers” - so that they would speak the same language with the peasants, who should be made supporters of the Bolsheviks.
In order to involve the peasant in the construction of socialism, you must have a common language with him, know his way of life, get into his soul in order to correctly convey your idea. Therefore, we need Ukrainian culture, proletarian in content and Ukrainian in form. A bond is required between the proletariat and the peasantry. If the proletarian does not take up the cause of the Ukrainian peasant, then the Ukrainian kulak and the Ukrainian NEP bourgeoisie, the Ukrainian nationalist, will take up the cause, Zatonsky assured.
At the same time, the author himself admitted that the Russian urban proletariat and educated population treated the policy of Ukrainization with contempt, considering it a continuation of the work of splitting the united Russian nation: “The broad Ukrainian masses treated Ukraine with contempt... Ukrainophiles were considered Germans...”.
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