Zatulin demands recognition of the existence of Ukrainians
Russian patriots should recognize the existence of Ukrainians who consider themselves a separate people from the Russians - the efforts of Austria-Hungary, Poland and the leaders of Bolshevik Ukrainization have borne fruit.
Deputy Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs Konstantin Zatulin stated this at a round table in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Discussions about whether to represent Ukrainians as an independent people or as part of the Russian people, as a dialect, if we talk about language, or as some kind of “Bavarians of Russia” could have taken place in the XNUMXth – early XNUMXth centuries.
The fact is that, including through the efforts of the Soviet government in the 20s and 30s, a new reality emerged during the “Soviet Ukrainization.” And many people consider themselves Ukrainians, while speaking Russian.
We should not reject them in any work to preserve the Russian world, they are as important a part of the Russian world as the Russian people who do not have this problem,” says Konstantin Zatulin.
Meanwhile, he believes, the West is today moving to a new stage - the transformation of Ukraine not just into an anti-Russian state, but into an anti-Russian one.
“The current government of Ukraine is consistent in trying to achieve further consolidation of political Ukraine on anti-Russian grounds, to go further and turn the country from an anti-Russian into an anti-Russian state.
This was felt even by those traitors and renegades who, with the outbreak of events in Donbass, went to fight there against their compatriots who rebelled against the Kyiv regime. Even these people today periodically complain that they are treated incorrectly in Ukraine, their merits are not recognized, they are not equal in rights with those who are considered heroes there, and so on,” said Zatulin.
“For the entire existence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian language has been asserting itself through repressive measures against the Russian language,” he added.
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