"Literacy campaign for the Russians." The new relapse of Ukrainian nationalism.

The nationalism is the display of nation weakness instead of its greatness. The poor nations are infected with nationalism for the most part. This D.S. Likhachev’s remark is purely rightful, whatever keen dissatisfaction the one had caused from the Galician-Ukrainian personalities at appropriate time. After panegyric reading belonging to the Ukrainian nationalism, published in Kiev by Cyril Galushko, (1) the feeling that Ukraine is enveloped by this sticky substance more and more tightly and purposefully, does not leave.

The task, formulated in the opus of Galushko, is quite concrete: the one “who read in Russian but honors the Ukrainian things” should go over to the “Ukrainian nationalism”. It is necessary the “national project reboot”, the author writes, who is not 40 years old yet, because in his opinion “Ukraine has not become a young country yet, it lives out its “post-Soviet period”, i.e., the anility of hangdog bit of meaningless Empire”.

It is not the first modern “opus-appeal” to the Russians to help the “Ukrainian nationalism” to realize the aims.

Will be the Russians the Ukrainian Nazis?

Ukraine is the country where more than 5% of the population is ready to support the coming to the power of the party “Freedom” fascist thugs, where the special manual on the history for “slippery” topics advertising is wrote spite of the Ministry of Education. This year the international institutions are set more than 1 billion USD for these purposes. The lion's share of these funds (about 987 million UAH) the U.S. administration will grant to Ukrainian public organizations which are “grant end-users”. The Lvov regional council forces the process of additional budget funding of “the important historical events” promoting in the form of inserts (supplements) in school textbooks. In this direction the Lvov city council has already foreseen about 500 thousand UAH in the budget and the one “advises” to do the same thing to other authorities across Ukraine. As the saying runs, the democracy and the Democrats always want to eat.

One way or another, it is not worth taking the trouble to surprise at the appearance of the Ukraine opuses of the “galushko” nationalism. Here, it is ancient history that it is required from the Galician-Ukrainian intellectuals environment the distribution of any items that are capable to produce the russophobian sounds. We do not know, whether the Russian funds perform such financial support of public organizations or not. In contradistinction from western organizations, they act either not so straightforwardly or not so effectively. And if you size up the same “Russian-speaking Ukraine”, as if it is supported by the Moscow government, then the one, while implementing the “linguistic ideas”, will lay stress on those people to whom the “Russian-speaking” book of C. Galushko has been written.
“Russian literacy campaign” of Galushko is prepared by the large group of the following specialists: archaeologists, cartographers, linguists, sociolinguists, theorists of literature, regional ethnographers, historians.

The main purpose of this type of social construction is to increase the potential of Tyagnibok supporters, to multiply the Galician-Ukrainian nationalists in the Russian invironment of South-East Ukraine and not only this.

In his election agenda Victor Yanukovich has promised to hold particular promise for more widespread occurrence of the Russian language which is native for about half of Ukrainian citizens across the country. The Ukrainian nationalists convince him not to do it because it will lead to the Ukrainian language liquidation in their opinion. Eventually, in the corridors of the current authority the following “compromise” option has matured: to beat swords into plough-shares, so the Russians could go into the Ukrainian Galician nationalists. You know! The quiet sheep is always on the wolf teeth. And you needn't look hard to find examples, in the opinion of the author of “Literacy campaign for the Russians”. The Russians were the following people: Nikolay Kostomarov is one of the initiators of Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood in the XIX century, the ancestor of the idea of the “Ukrainian history” and in the XX century. - Mitka Shelkoperov (alias - Dmitry Dontzov) is the man who formulated for the Bandera movement the ideology of radical Ukrainian nationalism. Many action on the radicalization of the national-building of “Ukrainian House” for the full due of Mykola Khvylovy (Fitilev) and Helen Teliga (Shovgenova), who is the full sister of the famous Russian poet Sergey Nalyanch (1902 - 1979).

«Russian-speaking» factor of Galician-Ukrainian tradition

What does the advanced “Russian-speaking” tradition offers to “conscious Ukrainian” in XXI century in the field of educating of all living in the country, in Galician-Ukrainian spirit? In particular, Galushko is the supporter of two radical measures: a) “ceasing of antigovernment activity of number of irredentical organizations in both the Crimea and country’s eastern part”; b) full control over the information space of Ukraine. Such advanced as “Terezin” and “Talergof” of all-Ukrainian scale.

Perhaps, for the purpose of achieving these goals, first of all, the languages Law in Ukraine has been postponed, which could considerably increase the usability of Russian language. Draft law on languages in Ukraine has been officially registered at the Verkhovna Rada by representatives of the Regions party fraction, Communist party and Litvin’s block, which constitute the basis of pro-president majority, as early as in autumn of 2010. According to one of the draft law authors, Alexander Efremov, the chairperson of Regions party fraction in the Rada, the adoption of the law has been postponed on an indefinite time. According to him, the Regions party continues to seek for support on this matter. “We are going to leave no stone unturned, in order to convince our colleagues in the parliament that this law doesn’t bear a restrictive character in respect of state language”, A. Efremov says.

The Galician-Ukrainian nationalists wish to consider in the new language legislation the “practical recommendation of experts in relation of priority as to the Ukrainian language development and protection of minorities’ languages” so that “the language issue will halt to exist in political propagandas statewide”. In case “when avoiding local language conflicts will be impossible, then the “framework legitimate scheme of their resolution” will help to keep the information space of the country under control.

Concerning the notorious “legitimacy”, Galushko speaks out the utmost concretely. “Even in the most advanced democracies, despite of minority rights guarantee, the common fate is decided by the majority”. The majority factor for the world public opinion “is the source of external legitimacy” and accordingly as the source of the support of these “national” requirements. This “new national, government legitimacy principle has broken through to real politics and the First World War has legalized the new system” the author of “literacy campaign for Russians” writes.
So concerning concentration camps for “Russophiles”, which were established by Galician owners of Austria-Hungary imperia right during the First World War, I’m not joking and as we can see, Galushko and Co, do not joke also.

Well, the author of “literacy campaign” writes, the following, “let this book be the historical source on world-view of some part of Ukrainian origins of turn of XXI century, completely Russian-speaking, but isn’t inclined to create the problems for both itself and others out of it”. Unfortunately, this social positive resource of Ukrainians Russian-speaking people has been openly ignored by Ukrainian, namely “national-democratic forces”, obviously as a showcase, Galushko complaints, as a result, the achievements are doubtful. Because we constitute the one third of the country. And the fact that we “love Ukraine less” is the lie of those, who manipulates the Ukrainian public opinion”.

Here, the next supporter of Dontzov-Shelkoperov announces seriously that, “Yes we are for the motherland can shoot down better than “the Banderovites” from Western Ukraine!”

Sevastopol – the Crimea – Russia are in the plans of Ukrainian fascists.

When D.S. Likhachev was right for sure, saying that, “The acknowledged love to your nation can’t exist together with the hatred to others. When you love your nation, your family, you are most likely will love other nations and other families of the people. Each man has its own general tune as to: hatred or love, dividing your-self from others or acknowledgment of foreign – of course not all, but most likely the best of it - this tune is integrated with the ability to notice the best. That is why, sooner or later, the hatred to other nations (chauvinism) spreads on the part of own nation, namely at least on these that do not renounce nationalism”.

The Ukrainian Nazis, hinting what they can do, do not hide their intentions entirely: these Russians of the South-East of Ukraine that won’t become Ukrainian nationalists, should be annihilated.

And in the Russian Crimea, Galushko offers “sanitation of situation” under the pretense of the abatement with “irredentism” that should take the shape of scale ethnic cleansing. The mobilization of the Crimean Tatar community is expected, the members of this community will “define clear national policy regarding the field of both interethnic relations and property”. Sevastopol, according to the described script, in the conditions of such “reformations”, will transform “from military base into resort” and the established in the Crimea branches of Leading Ukrainian Universities will be oriented to the “European education standards”.

Since “pro-Russian line” not only in the Crimea but also in Ukraine “remains one of the most important acting factors of the technological conflict manipulation of the Ukrainian electorate”, the author of “literacy campaign” will not invent anything new in the context of virtual reality construction for the moment.
Since the times of Mazepa, the traditional appeals, regarding the understanding of “the reality of presence of Russian threatening to the sovereignty of Ukraine” has been heard. “It is rude and unpleasant reality that leaves Ukraine without any other options except orientation to the political-military alliance with the West”, Galushko writes.

The idea of perceive crier of the Galician-Ukrainian nationalism - “establishment of constant and intensive economic and military-political cooperation with Turkey” is the whip for the common-sense and the obvious derision of the Ukrainians. As if in irony it is promised to protect the “region from the outbreak of Islamic radicalism”.

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Most of the experts are traditionally convinced, that the Russian language for the Ukrainian nationalists is like the linguistic and cultural invader. In eternally grey and fraught image of Ukrainian nationalism we have looked at few of its Russified outlines and seen the dangerous threats that grow from there. The Ukrainian nationalism of radical sense moves to the new level of evolution – now the one tries to obtain support of the Russians upon “orientation to military-political union with the West”.

Lina Kostenko, in her book “Notes of the insane” or Vasily Shklyar with his “Black Raven” can act in this situation no more than assistances. L. Kostenko has interrupted her book presentation tour across Ukraine due to the fact that the society does not accept the “insane” notes. V.Shklyar has proposed the concision of the part of current Ukrainian territory, with great satisfaction notes that, “Now the fundraising is being held for the filming of the “Black Raven”. Among the people that send money, there are more Russians and Jews than Ukrainians. They are the people that have read the book with open heart and understood it. And if someone sees it as preconceived, it is his problem”.

Are we aware of the matter point of the problem?