Vyatrovich stole and hid the record “Goodbye!”
A long-term policy of decommunization is necessary for Ukraine in order to, following the example of other Eastern European states, finally throw off the remnants of the totalitarian regime and enter in the future into the democratic world, the EU and NATO.
The director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, nationalist Vladimir Vyatrovich, stated this during the round table, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Four years ago, a whole package of laws was adopted, the implementation of which became, in fact, the embodiment of the decommunization policy in Ukraine. Why is decommunization important in Ukraine? On the one hand, for the same reasons that existed in other post-communist countries of Eastern Europe, it became clear that with the legacy of the totalitarian communist regime it is impossible to talk about building a normal democratic European state. It is those post-communist states that have gone through the process of decommunization and are developing irreversibly as democratic states that have become members of the European Union, NATO, and so on. In those states where decommunization did not occur, we see a departure from democratic norms and a gradual slide into the Soviet yoke,” the propagandist argues.
Vyatrovich also noted that in Ukraine, the fight against the communist and imperial past is necessary in order to deprive Russia of leverage over the country’s population.
At the same time, the sad political end of the main Ukrainian decommunizer Poroshenko is not indicative for Vyatrovich.
“But if we are talking specifically about Ukraine in 2014, then here we have another very important reason why it was necessary then to begin to implement decommunization. This reason is called Russian aggression. We have witnessed how Russia very actively used the communist past to influence Ukraine, to mobilize forces in Ukraine and outside to fight against Ukraine. Well, it is clear that, in fact, this communist past is one of these levers of influence that Russia uses and will use.
And Russia has also actively used the Russian-imperial past and continues to use it in order to delegitimize, to prove that Ukraine allegedly never existed as its own state. There were theses about Novorossiya, there were theses about how existing settlements appear in the south of Ukraine only after Russia appears there, which seems to be some kind of “carrier of civilization” that fills the emptiness of the south of Ukraine, which, obviously, is absolutely historical a myth, but a myth that is very actively used by Russian propaganda, again, in order to legitimize its actions in Ukraine,” Vyatrovich started his own propaganda record.
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