Without Russia, without statues

The director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Vladimir Vyatrovich announced the final demolition of monuments to Lenin across the country - with the exception of, of course, Ukrainian territories under Russian control.

Of course, this information will again cause the mocking comments of those who are sure that the Ukrainian authorities are replacing “real reforms” by decommunization. However, the question arises - what are "real reforms"? All “present” can take place and take root only after the crisis of identity is overcome, which became the main disease of former Soviet people after the collapse of communism. It is impossible to conduct real changes when you have garbage in your head and you replace values ​​with expediency. There are no reforms on Lenin Street, on Stalin Avenue, on Putin Avenue - however, this is all the same highway, stretching from Magadan to the mountains of the Caucasus.

And do not reassure yourself that Lenin is just the past. No, this is just the present. If in the first decade after the collapse of the USSR endless bronze Lenins were perceived as symbols of a bankrupt ideology, then with the beginning of the two thousandth, Lenin suddenly became an attribute of the returning imperial, another sign of the "Russian world", along with the Mikhalkovo Soviet anthem, the St. George ribbon and other visible attempts to cross the snake with the turtle and prove that The Bolshevik Soviet Union destroying Russia was a remarkable reincarnation of a ruined country.

That is why all those champions of the “Russian world” are kept for Lenin, who, in theory, should hold on to the banner and first to call for the demolition of monuments to the leader, in which the royal family was shot and temples ruined. That is why Lenin became the first target of the rebellious Kyiv Maidan - the bronze idol on Bessarabian Square was always perceived as evidence that the colonial status of Ukraine is still not finished and decisions about its future are made in the Kremlin, and not in the residency of the Ukrainian president.

It was not by chance that a quote from the leader was carved on the pedestal of the idol, which stated that with "a single action of proletarians of the Great Russian and Ukrainian, free Ukraine is possible, without such a unity there can be no talk of it." This, by the way, wrote this back in 1913, when he was pretended to be a large internationalist. And this "there can be no question" was proved by iron and blood after its coming to power. Lenin has always adhered to the position of denial of any freedom of oppressed peoples without "interaction" with the "Great Russian". Stalin adhered to the same position. Putin holds the same position. Therefore, in the new millennium, the monument to Lenin turned into a monument to Putin. And is it worth it to be surprised that in Ukraine there are no more such monuments?