The participant of our project “After”, sociologist and publicist Nikolai Mitrokhin (included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) writes :

“With sports interest, you have to look at the scandal in the Canadian parliament in connection with the honor of the former soldier of the Vaffen-SS division Galicia, arranged by its chairman and president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.

The idea was the idea of reminding the country that seems to be a world champion in "sensitivity" to the emotions of potentially offended from different ethnic and gender groups that Ukrainian armed nationalism is closely connected with the most gloomy pages of the history of the twentieth century.

Once again, confirmation has been confirmed that Zelensky, his environment and the Ukrainian political class as a whole do not want to know that the “in the West” in general in the left, that the sympathies to the Russian Federation (past or now preserved) are largely caused by its “left -wing” positioning (now “anti -Globalist”, previously “social”), and therefore the “right -handed” Ukraine is rejected or, or, or, at least, under suspicion of the diverse. But uniform in terms of assessing some "iconic concepts" forces. It would seem that one must be careful with a public demonstration of some "symbols of the struggle for independence." What is appropriate in Lviv and Drogobych is not a fact that they will be well accepted in Cleveland, Berlin or Paris. Fortunately, even among Ukrainian emigrants there is a choice of more neutral heroes. But no, you have to go from the trump cards. ”

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Nikolay Mitrokhin* - About the choice of heroes