Roundtable discussion was led by Vladimir Dzhabarov.
The Federation Council held a roundtable discussion on “Ideology of Ukrainism as the foundation for the anti-Russia project.” It was conducted by Deputy Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Vladimir Dzhabarov.
The senator noted that for a long time, Russia tended to underestimate the destructive influence of the ideology of Ukrainism on the public. “In effect, this is an ideology of hatred,” he said.
Vladimir Dzhabarov recalled that an active policy of banning newspapers, withdrawing books in Russian and closing Russian schools began in Ukraine as early as the 1920s.
During World War II, Ukrainian nationalists backed Hitler, often committing horrible atrocities. Tens of thousands of Poles, Jews, Czechs, Ukrainians, Russians and other ethnicities were killed in the ethnic cleansing they unleashed in Western Ukraine in 1943–1945. The Senator emphasised that regardless of this, in modern Ukraine these criminals are hailed as national heroes. According to Vladimir Dzhabarov, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Western propaganda centres started turning Ukraine into an anti-Russia. “A war against our country has become the only goal and raison d’etre of this project. It is waged not only on the battlefield but also in the minds of the people,” the Senator said.
Deputy Director of the Historical and Document Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Oleg Rogoza noted in his remarks that both the Ukrainian language and falsified history are now being imposed on the people of Ukraine.
Chair of the Civic Chamber Commission on Sovereignty, Patriotic Projects and Support for Veterans Vladimir Rogov spoke about the sources of Russophobia in Ukraine and mechanisms for developing Ukrainian nationalism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The roundtable discussion was attended by senators of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry Second Department of the CIS Countries Mikhail Yolkin, leading expert of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies Oleg Nemensky, Director of the Institute of Russians Abroad Sergei Panteleyev, Doctor of History Tamara Guzenkova, as well as representatives of public organisations, scientists and experts.