The DeRussification of Ukraine Pt 3

Ukrainian Nationalist and Communist Friendship is forged

No Democrat, let alone a socialist, would dare to deny the full legitimacy of Ukrainian demands. Nor can any democrat deny Ukraine's right to free secession from Russia: it is the unconditional recognition of this right alone that makes it possible to agitate for a free union of Ukrainians and Great Russians, for the voluntary union of two peoples into one state. It is the unconditional recognition of this right alone that is able to break in practice, irrevocably, to the end, with the accursed tsarist past, which has done everything to alienate peoples so close in language, place of residence, character, and history. The accursed tsarism turned the Great Russians into the executioners of the Ukrainian people, in every possible way nurtured in them hatred for those who forbade even Ukrainian children to speak and study in their native language.

Lenin 1917

Replace Tsarism with Putinism or whatever and that tantrum could have been written by any given shitlib today.

Today Mr Book continues his review of Shirokorads book the Battle for New Russia and in this installment we will examine just how justified if at all is the endless stream of snot and tears from Ukrainians and their supporters when they cry about the Soviet era. If anyone reading this hasn’t yet read Mr Books TLDR about the Holodomor in part 1 I recommend doing that since what he is about to discuss here will seem simply impossible if you think the Soviets made a conscious effort to genocide Ukrainians specifically while simultaneously working with Ukrainian Nationalist to create modern Ukraine.

This will be another fairly lengthy post so I won’t waste time going over the exact mechanics of how the borders of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic were drawn up other than mentioning that the process was viscous and Bolshevik on Bolshevik murder may have been involved. The Ukrainian National Bolsheviks obviously wanted the borders of the Ukrainian SSR to extend as far as East as possible and those Bolsheviks like Fedor Artem for whom the city of Artemsk in Donbass is named today opposed them as they didn’t identify as Ukrainian. Both camps justified their positions with appeals to Communist ideals, the pro Ukrainians with slogans about liberating oppressed Ethnic Minorities and the anti-Ukrainians with appeals to Commie slogans about how Nationality doesn’t matter. Both sides also insinuated correctly that their opponents were not being honest with their sloganeering. The pro Ukrainians said their opponents simply didn’t care about the aspirations of the downtrodden but heroic Ukrainian people which is true, and the anti-Ukrainians said that the Ukrainian National Bolsheviks were just dangerous crypto separatist with designs on Russian land which was also true. Artem who was the most influential opponent of Ukrainian National Bolshevism was killed in a suspicious/convenient accident in June of 1921 and Lenin was firmly on the side of the Ukrainians so eventually the Eastern Borders of Ukraine as we know them today were settled on. It could have been worse though, originally the Ukrainian National Bolshiveks were even pushing to include Rostov in the Ukrainian SSR.

Now let’s jump forward to 1923.

Shirokorad:

In April 1923, the XII Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held, which officially took a course towards "indigenization". In the Ukrainian SSR, this policy resulted in wild Ukrainization, the main conductor of which was a fierce opponent of the Donetsk Republic, Nikolai Skrypnik, one of the active participants in the XII Congress.

The plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine urgently created a commission on Ukrainization, which immediately began active work. Decrees were issued on measures to urgently carry out the complete Ukrainization of the party and Soviet apparatus.

It is not difficult to understand why the National Bolsheviks like Skrypnik, Kerzhentsev, etc., pursued a policy of Ukrainization. But why did the leadership of the military-industrial complex, including Stalin, need it?

According to historians Miroshnichenko and Udovik, Ukrainization was supposed to solve the following political problems:

"1) To split the ranks of the Ukrainian émigrés in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary and to win at least some of them to the side of the Soviet government.

2) To wrest Western Ukraine (as well as Western Belarussia) from the hands of Poland and annex it to Soviet Ukraine.

3) To educate "human material" in the spirit of devotion to the ideas of socialism-communism for the development of the USSR and the suppression of internal opposition in the person of the petty bourgeoisie and the Cossacks.

4) To undermine the internal stability of Poland and weaken it as a strategic enemy.

5) To test new technologies in the national question for the export of socialist ideas and the development of the world revolution."

Here I would add that the Kremlin remembered well how the majority of Russian-speaking residents of Little Russian cities supported the White armies in 1918-1919.

Well, the villagers seem to be close in class.

Of course, it was possible to carry out "Ukrainization" less brutally and without choosing an artificial language created on the basis of Galician village dialect.

But our leaders knew little about dialects. Lenin had never been to Little Russia, Stalin only visited during the Civil War. In my opinion, it is incorrect to talk about the policy of the Bolsheviks or about the policy of Stalin as a whole over a 30-year period. The Stalins of 1922, 1932, 1948 and 1952 are four different people, with different levels of intelligence and different political views.

While the Reds just shot or exiled surly Russian anti Communist as a rule they bent over backwards to win over Ukrainian Nationalist who fought against the Reds during the civil war. Just chew on the for a moment Respected Readers. There were plenty of different means available for the Soviets to weaken Poland, but they specifically picked reconciliation with the Petliurast/anti Communist Ukrainian Nationalist we met in our last 2 installments.

One of the goals of Ukrainization, as Miroshnichenko and Udovik noted, was an attempt to construct socialism in Ukraine...with crowds of Petliura's followers. To a large extent, this measure was a success, and these followers of Petliura zealously began to help Lazar Moiseevich in the Ukrainization of the whole of Little Russia.

Back in Soviet times, a Ukrainian writer wrote down a pun that Ukrainian Soviet literature of the 1920s and 1930s "came out of Petliura's overcoat." Alas, this is largely true.

Anti Communist Ukrainian Nationalist team up with a homicidal Jewish Communist to oppress Russians who don’t consider themselves Ukrainian enough? Why does this narrative sound so damn familiar? Goebbels quote about the big lie is often abused and taken out of context by people trying to accuse him of advocating for using the big lie method as opposed to his actual intent of simply describing it. But this narrative of the USSR abusing/suppressing/genociding “Ukrainians” is an excellent example of the big lie in practice. It’s such a total inversion of what happened, such a colossal falsehood that it’s difficult for regular people to even conceive of such a lie being told in the first place.

The above is a copy of a certificate stating that the recipient possess knowledge of the Ukranian language. On the right side is printed “Ukrainization will unite cities with villages”. Obviously the only especially big cities in Ukraine in 1928 when this certificate was issued were Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk and those of Donbass, all of which were 100% Russian speaking. It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to understand that this Ukrainization was directly targeted at Russians with the goal of replacing Russian identity with an astrotufed protohohol one.

We briefly covered Petliura a little bit in the last 2 installments but it’s worth a refresher as his followers would form the core of the Soviet Cadres who would de-Russify Little Russia. Petliura was an ex Orthodox Seminarian from a Cossack Family who like Stalin was kicked out of Seminary for being a Revolutionary. Like Stalin Petliura would then spend many years writing anti-Tsarist articles and editing anti-Tsarist newspapers. He would work as a journalist in Kiev and St Petersburg until about 1917.

As the editor of numerous journals and newspapers, Petliura published over 15 000 critical articles, reviews, stories and poems under an estimated 120 nom-de-plumes. His prolific work in both the Russian and Ukrainian languages helped shape the mindset of the Ukrainian population in the years leading up to the Revolution in both Eastern and Western Ukraine. His prolific correspondence was of great benefit when the Revolution broke out in 1917, as he had contacts throughout Ukraine.

https://timenote.info/en/Symon-Petliura

Thats if anything a bit of an understatement. By the time of the October Revolution and Civil war a “Ukrainian” was either a Petliurast or National Bolshivek Ukrainian.

From the same website:

Petliura attended the first All-Ukrainian Army Congress held in Kiev in May 1917 as a delegate, where he was elected head of the Ukrainian General Army Committee on May 18. With the proclamation of the Ukrainian Central Council on June 28, 1917, Petliura became the First Secretary for military matters.

Anyone who read the last installment knows about the disastrous effects of Ukrainization on the former Imperial Army. When the Germans seized Ukraine Petliura briefly worked for the puppet regime and then overthrew it when the Germans surrendered to the Allies. Petliuras free Ukrainian State than fought both the Reds and Whites without any particular success because both the Reds and especially the Whites had more popular support in Little Russia then Petliura. The Whites would end up pushing Petliuras Army out of Ukraine and then the Whites would surrender to the Reds. At that point Petliura would start working for Poland and his followers would wage a low intensity insurgency against the USSR in Ukraine which we touched on in the Holodomor article. It was these followers of Petliura that the Reds with admirable success would attempt to win over and together they would de-Russify Little Russia.

Shirokorad expanding on the truth behind that Ukrainian Pun about Soviet Ukrainian literature jumping out of Petliuras pocket:

Take, for example, the famous Ukrainian satirist Ostap Vyshnya (Pavlo Mikhailovich Gubenko). This "Cherry" blossomed in Petliura's agitprop, and Ostap himself was one of his officers.

At the end of 1919, Gubenko was captured by the Reds. There he was noticed by Skrypnik himself and again sent to agitprop, this time to Soviet.

Skrypnik was the possibly murdered Fedor Artems main antagonist during the mini Bolshivek civil war about just how far east the Ukrainian SSRs borders should be drawn.

Shirokorad about the illustrious Skrypnik:

"Skrypnik. Nikolay Alekseevich (13.1.1872, Yasinovatoe settlement, Bakhmut district, Yekaterinoslav province – 7.6.1933, Kharkov), party and statesman. He was the son of a railway employee. He studied at the St. Petersburg Technological Institute (did not graduate). From December 1917 in Ukraine, People's Commissar of Labor and Industry. From March 1918 he was chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. From July 1918 to January 1919 he was a member of the collegium of the Cheka, head of the Department for Combating Counterrevolution, then of the Secret Political Department, the most terrible unit of the Cheka. He was one of the main organizers of terror during the Civil War. He took an active part in the development and implementation of Chekist provocations, including against B.V. Savinkov. From January 1919 he was People's Commissar of State Control of the Ukrainian SSR and at the same time head of the Special Departments of the Southeastern and Caucasian Fronts. From April 1920 he was the People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate of the Ukrainian SSR. From July 1921 he was People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR, where he launched an irreconcilable struggle against members of noncommunist parties. In 1922-1927 he was People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General of Ukraine".

Although he did not serve under Petliura, he was a notorious bandit, executioner, opportunist and at the same time the main outright nationalist.

To call Skrypnik a Ukranian Nationalist is not at all a distortion. Baltic Nationalist for example helped the Soviets seize power and so did Bolshivek Ukrainian Nationalist like Skrypnik and Hrushevsky whom we met in the last installment. During his time as prosecutor General of Ukraine he would play an indispensable role in flipping captured Petliurast to the Reds as Shirokorad noted in regard to Ostap Vyshnya. Some more Petliurast luminaries of Soviet Ukraine:

The most famous ex-Petliura in the service of Soviet literature was Vladimir Sosiura. As a very young boy, he rose to the rank of a bunchuzh - today, a sergeant. Then together with his commander, Ataman Volokh, he went over to the Reds. As he later claimed out of conviction. And then it went on and on, poems about Mazepa mixed with poems praising the Soviet regime. I almost went crazy from overexertion and internal duality. In spite of everything, he left a very talented book "The Third Company" - about his adventures in 1918-1920. I advise you to read it - it is wonderfully described how Petliura's followers shot prisoners. In Soviet times, censorship did not allow it to pass because of its naturalistic scenes. It is worth adding about Sosiur that he, like most Ukrainian "writers" of the 1920s and 1930s, combined "proletarian internationalism" with outright nationalism. On the one hand, the Petliura school, and on the other hand, there are good salaries in Soviet agitprop. The "Soviet writer" was something like a count under tsarism in terms of his financial position, privileges and honors. And not only in relation to workers and peasants, but also to doctors and engineers.

Soviet propaganda poems about Mazepa written in Ukrainian by a guy who fought the Reds during the civil war. Does this sound like the Soviet Ukraine that modern hohols constantly cry about?

Shirokorad:

In order not to be accused of bias in my description of the "Soviet Petliuraites", I give the floor to the Ukrainian Oles Buzina: "We like to talk about the cruelty of the Soviet regime towards conscious Ukrainians in the 20s. In fact, this is not the case. Having defeated Petliura, the Bolsheviks immediately began to lure the former Petliuraites to their side. Yurko Tyutyunnyk, a former general of the UNR, came to Ukraine from emigration. In his homeland, he took up literary activity. The Soviet state publishing house in Kharkov already in 1924 published his memoirs "With the Poles against Ukraine"...

A former officer of the Russian army, Petro Panchenko, ended up first in the Petliura artillery, and then... in the Soviet Union of Writers of Ukraine. He recalled Petliura's youth in the story "Blue Echelons", describing the UNR regime as a republic on wheels. And then he wrote for children – about the good Reds and bad Petliura's followers and the Whites. How he changed so much is incomprehensible! I couldn’t do it!

It wasn’t just Ukrainian literature that was created whole cloth by the USSR but also Ukrainian cinema.

Let's turn to Oles Buzina again: "In his youth, the author of the film "Shchors", film director Dovzhenko, also served with Petliura. He was captured by the Reds. But they did not eat him and did not cut his skin into gun holsters, but rather taught him to make movies.. They taught him so well that in the midst of the Holodomor he shot the classic film "Earth" - about well-fed impudent kulaks who kill communists in the village. In reality, it was the opposite. But Dovzhenko preferred not to notice this - he had to eat! He was also listed in the Writers' Union as an author of scripts"

Dovzhenko made quite a career: in 1926 he was a director-scriptwriter of the Odessa Film Studio, and from 1929 of the Kiev Film Studio.

Dovzhenko was constantly showered with a hail of awards and honors: 1941 – Stalin Prize of the 1st degree, 1949 – Stalin Prize of the 2nd degree. In 1957, the Kyiv Feature Film Studio was named after Dovzhenko.

Nevertheless, Dovzhenko was constantly criticized for his immoderate nationalism. And, I note, not without reason. But he got away with it. A number of authors believed that this was a consequence of Dovzhenko's cooperation with the "organs", where he had the pseudonym Zaporozhets. Materials on this side of Dovzhenko's activities are still classified by the SBU.

The following oppressed Ukranian is probably my favorite, the man just pisses on subtlety and says it like it is which is helpful for people like me.

In order to carry out Ukrainization, the Bolsheviks also recruited Petliura's followers who were far from especially literate.

Take, for example, Yurko Tyutyunnik. Education – one class of a parochial school (he was basically uneducated when he became a Revolutionary). By 1917, he served in the rank of non-commissioned officer. In the summer of 1917, he became a member of the Central Rada, demanding the immediate complete independence of Ukraine from Russia.

From Yurko's memoirs: "To drive a knife into the heart of Russia immediately, even without taking into account the immediate consequences of this for us - such was the desire. Is it possible to get more hatred from the human soul? In the spontaneous hatred of Russia was the greatest strength of our revolution."

In December 1918, Tyutyunnik went over to the side of Petliura. In his army, Yurko became a "cornet general".

In July 1923, Tyutyunnik was either lured by the OGPU to Soviet territory, or he himself defected. Nevertheless, Tyutyunnik was released and appointed secretary-inspector of the auditing commission of the All-Ukrainian State Joint-Stock Company of Trade. In addition, he gave lectures "on banditry" at the Kharkov school of red foremen.

"He wrote and published three books in the Ukranian Socialist Republic, the most famous of which was "With the Poles against Ukraine" (1924). In co-authorship with M. Johansen and the rising star of film directing Oleksandr Dovzhenko, he prepared the script for the film "Zvenigora" about the events of the Civil War in Ukraine, filmed in his native places. He also showed acting skills, playing himself in the film "P.K.P" ("Pilsudski bought Petliura")...

Much like how a bunch of emigres returned to Ukraine after the USSR was auctioned off a bunch of emigres returned to Soviet Ukraine when it was clear that the USSR intended to thoroughly Ukrainianize Little Russia.

The second person in the Petliura government, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, was also helped to "Ukrainianize" the Ukrainian SSR. In order to avoid accusations of partiality, I will again turn to the historians Miroshnichenko and Udovik: "As early as 1920, V. Vynnychenko appealed to the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine with a statement that he fully shared the program and policy of the Communist Party of Ukraine and wished to join Party, it was also said that many Ukrainian emigrants wanted to become members as well. In his statement, he wrote that the last support of the bourgeoisie and imperialism in Ukraine "is the evil social sorcerer against the kurkulivs and their ideologies." He wanted to head the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party or at least become a member of it. In September, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine accepted Vynnychenko into the ranks of the party, but did not introduce him into the Politburo. Vynnychenko was offended and went abroad. Nevertheless, in 1926, his brochure "Turn to Ukraine" was published in Lviv, in which he called on Ukrainian emigrants to return to their homeland to fight for the socialist system. In 1934, he wrote an open letter and published it in the Paris magazine "Trudova Ukraina" (1935, No 6-7), where he declared: "I am a communist." His last novel was "The Word Is Yours, Stalin! " (1950). He lived comfortably in a manor house in Mougins (near Cannes) on royalties from the printing of his works in Soviet Ukraine and the USSR."

In 1924, the former head of the Central Rada, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, arrived in Ukraine from emigration. He was immediately appointed head of the Department of Ukrainian History at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. "He was provided with a luxurious Beretti mansion in the center of Kiev (Volodymyrska Street, 35, now the reception of the SBU), which caused mass discontent among the scientists-academicians of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences"

The only conceivable response that a Ukrainian or pro Ukrainian could come at us with is that all these people were traitors and actually they defected to the Reds because they decided to become Russians or something. IDK. I personally don’t see how it’s possible to maintain that the USSR was anti Ukrainian in light of the examples above. Yurko Tyutyunnik outright said that the defining characteristic of a Ukrainian is wanting to drive a knife into the heart of Russia. Did he really decide that actually he wanted to be a Russian after all or did the Reds give him the opportunity to drive the knife home? There are only 2 available answers to that question and claiming the answer is that he just a had change of heart because of Communist propaganda or something is peak coping. To this day Kiev’s film studios are still named after Dovzhenko. As a matter of fact in Melitopol, a town which anyone following the shitshow of a war should know about the Ukrainians renamed a street in honor of Dovzhenko as part their decommunization program. That was not a typo, the current authorities in Kiev see Dovzhenko as a Ukrainian despite him working for the USSR. In Ukraine there are streets named after Petro Panchencko and as far I know there are no plans to change that. Likewise Hrushevskys mug is printed on Ukranian money to this day despite his long service to the USSR. He also has a monument in Kiev. So any haters reading this who will try and claim all these men were traitors and not TRVE Ukrainians just know that the current rulers of hoholstan disagree with you.

Ukrainian Hrushecsky Shekel

Our Chekist torturer Nikolai Skrypnik who was never a Petliurast but helped recruit many over to the Reds has a monument in Kharkov.

FYI to anyone who has forgotten that Kharkov is the spiritual home of Azov and the current base of Kraken. They tore down every last Hammer and Sickle and Red Amry monument they could find but left this Chekist monument in peace. Doubtless they would genuinely prefer to destroy every last trace of the Communist era but the problem is that this would put the neo nazis in a situation analogous to antifa in the US, they would be tearing down monuments to the people that laid the foundations for modern Ukrainian culture as it is known today. These are the authors that made Ukrainian more than a Galician village dialect. These are the people that made the first movies in Ukrainian, the first school textbooks in Ukrainian, the first hoholcentric history curriculums were made by these Chekist and former Petliurast. Ukranian poetry and songs were Astroturfed onto what geographically corresponds to today’s Ukraine thanks to these people. Literally if not the for the individuals we are discussing here than the nobody outside of Galicia would know any Ukranian at all today and that’s especially true of neo nazis from Donbass and Kharkov who didn’t start learning it until a few years ago. Or Jews from Krivoy Rog for that matter. The Diaspora in Cananda and wherever often get a lot of credit for keeping Ukrianianism alive but it’s just a plain fact that without the USSR and the Commies there wouldn’t have ever been a Ukraine. Who did more for the Ukrainian Nation Building Project exactly? Refuges bitching about Communism in Alberta or the Commies forcing Russians in Kiev and Kharkov to start learning Galician Jive in order to pass high school? Was it refugees in Canada making films in Ukranian about Ukraine or the Commies? Who wrote the hoholcentric school history curriculum, refugees bitching about the Holodomor or the Bolshevik Hrushevsky?

I genuinely hate comparing Whites to niggers but in this case the shoe just fits. The Ukrainians that cry and wave their bloody shirts in regard to the USSR are analogous to niggers claiming the US Government has always been trying to oppress them when actually the US Government has given them everything they have right down to their fucking language and fake history.

To close out by the early 1920s, well before the Holodomor, culture and education in the Ukranian SSR was firmly in the hands of Jews and Ukrainian Nationalist working with Jews because the Jews granted them their long-held dream of lording over Russians. Therefore, any talk of a cultural or physical genocide of Ukrainians is Goebbels big lie tier. In reality there was a fully Astroturfed nonorganic Rennaissance of a Ukrainian culture that had never been especially celebrated before outside of St Petersburg and Moscow by Russian Liberals. Amongst my few consistent followers probably some are beginning to assume that I’m just a crypto Duginist, Eurasianist, Communist Apologist but today we have covered what I consider to be a genuine and horrific crime committed by the USSR and Stalin specifically. This Soviet anti Russian Nation Building project in Ukraine is one of the biggest tragedies of the past century or so imo. And it’s quite ironic that those who benefitted the most from it are the least thankful and those who have suffered the most from it remember the USSR the most fondly.

Here is a post from Russian Telegram that’s a fitting end for this latetst wall text:

Vasil Cook, an employee of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, 1960s

(If anyone doesn't know, the last commander of the UPA)

https://t.me/historiographe/20058

Its true Respected Readers, the last commander of the famous Ukrainian Insurgent Army retired to a cushy job at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences in Commie Ukraine working with the USSRs brightest students.