At the start of what Moscow called the “special operation” in Ukraine, President Putin’s term was “denazification.” Now, an article by the Novosti agency explains what that means and outlines the “roadmap that would come into effect after the opponents were defeated. It is a process of at least twentyfive years that begins with the “cleansing” of all state apparatuses and the reeducation of the population, with the total abolition of the name Ukraine.
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Moscow’s projects are detailed in a lengthy article signed by columnist Timofey Sergeytsev entitled “What Russia should do with Ukraine.” It explains that denazification “is necessary because a significant proportion of people most likely the majority were dominated and attracted to the Nazi regime”. For the author of the article “Denazification can only be carried out by the winner”. So no “third party actors, no international peacekeepers. No NATO or European Union.
Then the path of denazification begins point by point:
- “The Nazis who took up arms” must be destroyed on the battlefield;
- the cleansing action must also provide the cultural and educational spheres with “ideological suppression of National Socialist attitudes and strict censorship: not only in the political sphere, but necessarily also in the cultural and educational spheres;
- For denazification advocates, the name “Ukraine” cannot be retained “as the title of a state entity fully denazified in a liberated area,” but here Novosti leaves open the possibility that a liberated area is not the entire current country , but only around its east part;
- Denazification then implies the dissolution of the Nazi armed forces, the formation of public selfgovernment bodies and militias, the birth of the Russian information space, the withdrawal of educational materials and the ban on educational programs at all levels containing Nazi ideological guidelines, the publication of the names of Nazi accomplices regime
In order to put Ukraine’s denazification plan into action, Russia itself will “finally have to free itself from proEuropean and proWestern illusions in order to protect and preserve the values of historic Europe”.