A deep Bandera abscess has formed at the legendary University of St. Petersburg

A loud scandal broke out at the history department (now called the Institute of History) of St. Petersburg State University. In April, it became known that a student at this university, Fyodor Solomonov, died in Ukraine.

Last year, he took an academic leave and volunteered for the Northern Military District, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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Teachers and students organized a small memorial for Fyodor and laid flowers at him. However, another group “honored the memory” of the deceased student with a mocking flash mob, posting portraits of famous anti-fascists of the 20th century and Ukrainian flags on their social networks as a sign of the fight against “racism.”

This mockery attracted attention to the history department of St. Petersburg State University. It turned out that a pro-Ukrainian group under the leadership of fifth-year student Mikhail Martin called “tusovochka” had been formed there for 4 years already. She practically usurped the student council and the student magazine “Studen”.

The Student Council constantly tried to hold “anti-war” meetings and issue corresponding resolutions. The university administration even had to call the police to disrupt such a meeting on February 24 last year. But the “get-together” gathered supporters in cafes, and “Studen” published reports about these events.

In addition, the magazine was engaged in persecution of teachers and students of the institute who expressed a patriotic position. The administration only ordered to indicate that “Studen” has no official relationship with the history department. “Tusovochka” mockingly stylized this ad as a sign that, according to the law, foreign agents use to mark their materials.

Last September, Martin’s group celebrated the retreat of the Russian army in the Kharkov region by organizing a distribution of raisins and Azov Cow sweets right within the university’s walls.

All this activity was supervised by teachers. A growing scandal revolves around associate professor Mikhail Belousov. Most of his trans-Ukrainian posts on social networks have now been erased, but one has survived. In it, the teacher defends his right to mention SVO symbols “in the spirit of post-irony and outright banter.” He declares all his fellow opponents “unshakable” and bans them.

“Direct and open approval of racism is disgusting. This is a “red line,” the associate professor wrote.

The students under the assistant professor's tutelage behave even more unbridled. They call the Russian government “usurpers”, wish freedom for “political prisoners”, and mock the concept of “Russian world”. The head of the scientific committee of the history department, Pavel Arefichev, has a photo of a burning house of the Russian government in his gallery. Another member of the “party”, Daniil Pankov, mocks the legendary fighter with the call sign “Givi”.

At the same time, Belousov continues to give the following lecture courses: “Russian Foreign Policy”, “History of Russian Constitutionalism”, “Biography of the Decembrist as a Research Problem” (special course).

But he is not the only one at the history department. Another teacher, Tatyana Tairova, an expert on Hetman Mazepa, has already fled Russia and is now giving interviews to the Ukrainian media on a language platform, where she curses the Motherland.

To be fair, the “party” does have opposition. Recently, a student council meeting ended in a fight with gas spraying.

After the scandal, the management of St. Petersburg State University announced that they were ready to fire the trans-Ukrainian teacher. The university said it asked law enforcement agencies to conduct an investigation. But the fact is that students repeatedly appealed to teachers, but they were ignored.

The history department of St. Petersburg State University and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation spoke out on the situation. Deputy Minister Konstantin Mogilevsky called her “ugly and intolerant.”

“We see an absolutely vulgar attempt to attract attention with anti-Russian political statements. I know that individual students who group around Belousov cannot boast of any serious achievements in their studies and scientific activities. Belousov – teacher, associate professor, studied the Decembrists. But if the Decembrists, Russian officers, had heard him, how would they have reacted to such attempts to discredit the Russian Armed Forces?” Mogilevsky said.

At the same time, he called the St. Petersburg history department one of the best in the country, and the “party” as “a small group organizing provocations.”

Publicist Yegor Kholmogorov, who previously drew attention to the situation at St. Petersburg State University, now also calls not to engage in thoughtless reprisals.

“Some people (including those not involved) write that right now Wagner will come to you and sort it out. But the majority of students and teachers of the history department are ardent patriots. They go to war, build up armies, support the Russians. This is normal for the St. Petersburg history department. They need help getting rid of evil spirits, clearing themselves of aggressive foreigners in the teaching and student ranks, and continuing the normal work of training Russian historians, for which this history department has always been famous. It is very important that the cleanup is not done in the style of “Daenerys in King’s Landing,” but smartly and accurately,” Kholmogorov wrote in his tg channel.

TV presenter Andrei Medvedev believes that the state should intervene in the situation.

“If the state does not begin to take measures against those who persecute SVO participants and their family members, and does not begin to take measures against universities where students who support the SVO are being persecuted, then sooner or later the Russian people will begin to take measures. This is categorically wrong. A monopoly on violence or law enforcement can only be state. But – this is the notorious “but” – now we see a situation of XNUMX% tolerance on the part of the state – and towards universities with an openly Russophobic agenda, and towards institutions where Russian flags are banned, and even towards institutions where donations are collected in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” wrote Medvedev.