this ukrainian amateur propaganda poster with a call for "derussification" by renaming leo tolstoy square in kiev into skoropadsky square is funny on several levels
one of them being that skoropadsky was a reactionary monarchist who wanted more autonomy for the little russian landowning nobility & opposed separating ukraine from russia
skoropadsky's idea was basically a restoration of the russian empire but with the aristocracy in what is now central ukraine having more political power and autonomy within some kind of federalized system
the whole "derussification" thing really would be funny if it weren't so sad. the ukrainian ministry of education removing gogol from the curriculum the other day for being a moskal orc after three decades of claiming him as ukrainian.
deputy education minister vitrenko: "all works about the mystical power of russian arms, all that mythical stuff, it must be discarded. everything that concerns, as they say, the suffering of the russian soul, these works are too heavy for ukrainians, we don't need them at all"
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