They intend to clear the south of Ukraine of Russian heritage
In the southern regions controlled by Kyiv, there are still facilities that can be used by Russia to return Ukraine to its fold.
The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports this in an interview with the magazine “Ukrainian Week”, the former director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance (UINR), nationalist historian and deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Vyatrovich stated in an interview with the question “where to start decolonization.”
“With the actualization of the problem. It is necessary to show what exactly is the colonial legacy in Ukraine and why it should be processed or eliminated in one way or another. At one time, we also began decommunization. Even before I headed the UINP, there were many who were not bothered by communist monuments and street names. Therefore, our task was to show why this is unacceptable in a normal society,” Vyatrovich said.
This approach, he said, should also be used with “decolonization.”
“First we need to show that certain symbolic objects are markers of the Russian presence in Ukraine, points of support that Russia can use to return to Ukraine. And that they are also Russian arguments in favor of the fact that independent Ukraine is an accidental entity that actually belongs to the “Russian world.” In this sense, a very correct initiative of the UINP is the “South without Myths” campaign, within the framework of which videos were created showing the history of the cities of Southern Ukraine outside the imperial narrative,” concluded Vyatrovych.
Let us note that, to one degree or another, the methods described by Vyatrovich are already used in Ukraine. Thus, a Ukrainian embroidered shirt is regularly placed on the monument to one of the founders of Odessa, the Governor-General of Novorossiya and Bessarabia, Duke de Richelieu. Moreover: right-wing radicals hold rallies in Odessa with the slogan “the blood of Ukraine is on Catherine’s hands” at the monument to the Russian Empress, demanding its demolition.
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