At the same time as allegations of war crimes in Ukraine emerged, a prominent Russian author with ties to the Kremlin has published a manifesto calling for the total re-education of the Ukrainian population and the end of a sovereign state called “Ukraine”. Only “Catholic” regions of present-day western Ukraine would not come under Russian control, Timofey Sergeytsev wrote in the state news agency RIA Novosti.
The author of the publications is no stranger: Sergeitsev has been engaged in Ukraine for more than 20 years. He is particularly credited with the concept of “three kinds of Ukrainians” formulated in 2004 in the then-Ukrainian presidential election campaign. According to this concept, there are good pro-Russian Ukrainians, pro-Ukrainian Ukrainians who can be re-educated to become pro-Russian, and those Ukrainians who can no longer.
In 2012, he also wrote the screenplay for the propagandist feature film “Match”, in which the “three variants” were illustrated in a woodcut style using the example of a historic football match in Nazi-occupied Kiev. The “denazification” of Ukraine that Putin has called for since the start of the war clearly fits the context of the concept.
Russian spin doctors
Like the deputy head of the Russian presidential office, Sergei Kiriyenko, Sergeytsev also belongs to the group of “methodologists”. We are talking about a Soviet-era philosophical trend that is especially influential among Russian spin doctors, so-called “political technologists.” In the form of a club named after the philosopher and co-founder of Methodology Aleksandr Zinoviev (1922-2006) at RIA Novosti, in recent years there has also been an official platform for representatives of this group.
“ukrnazism”
In his current manifesto, Sergeitsev declared that “Ukrnazism” posed a greater danger to Russia and the world than German Nazism of the Hitlerite type, thus justifying the need for “denazification” of Ukraine. To be successful, at least an entire generation would have to come into the world and grow up under the conditions of “denazification”. The country’s “Nazification” lasted more than 30 years, and the political legalization of Ukrainian nationalism began at least in 1989, he explained.
“Collective West” as planners of Nazism in Ukraine
The “collective West” acted as a planner, source and sponsor of Nazism in Ukraine, the supporters of the nationalist leader Stepan Bandera (1909-1959) in western Ukraine acted only as one of the instruments in this process, Sergeytsev explained. out in the text from Sunday. Of course, the leading Bandera supporters would have to be liquidated, as their re-education was impossible. But “debanderization” is not enough; “denazification” inevitably also means “de-Europeanization”.
But what is also needed is “de-Ukrainization” and the rejection of the urge for ethnic self-identification in the historical regions of Little Russia and New Russia, which began in Soviet times. Among other things, Sergeitsev proposed confiscating textbooks and banning educational programs containing “ideological elements of Nazism”.
Source: Krone
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