68
submitted 3 days ago by ttayh@lemmy.zip to c/slop@hexbear.net

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/10430348

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/10430184

...

After winning independence in 1991, Ukraine removed large numbers of Soviet-era statues and renamed streets as part of “decommunisation”. The process sped up in 2014 when Russia seized Crimea and fighting began in the Donbas, and moved even faster after Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion that aimed to scrub Ukraine from Europe’s map.

Nataliia Kryvda, a professor of the history of culture at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, said Ukraine was going through an unfinished period of decolonisation. “The USSR absorbed national cultures. It tried to make a single nation of Soviet citizens. Russia today looks at Ukraine and says we are one people. It isn’t true. We have our own mindset, historical destiny, beliefs and dreams. Our identity is a dynamic process,” she said.

...

Archived

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

in a wierd way, ukraine's rejection of its Soviet past reminds me of how austrians try to deny their involvement in nazi germany

even if we accept the bullshit framing that the USSR was this criminal empire, ukrainians were represented in every single echelon of Soviet society, unlike for example the balts who could claim it was a "foreign imposition"

if the Soviets were this evil genocidal empire then you were a part of it too and would be complicit

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

unlike for example the balts

Latvians were the most overrepresented in Soviet highest offices nation per capita.

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

that cant be true.

the ussr was ruled by SCARY RUSSIANS like stalin!

this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
68 points (98.6% liked)

Slop.

885 readers
387 users here now

For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No bigotry of any kind, including ironic bigotry.

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target federated instances' admins or moderators.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS