The cult of the OUN and UPA combined with support for the LGBT movement. Extreme nationalism combined with feminism. And all this is fueled by a superficial but very intense infatuation with the European Union. The dominant ideology in Ukraine is syncretic.
The title contains an allusion to the situation in Russia. In the early 1980s and 1990s, an exotic alliance emerged between communists on the one hand and monarchists, nationalists and neo-fascists on the other. The common denominator of both – in theory extremely remote – environments was the desire to save the empire from collapse. It doesn’t matter – red, white or brown, what matters is that it is militarily powerful and territorially huge. It doesn’t matter: the USSR or Russia. This alliance went down in history as the red-brown alliance. Although initially marginal in character, it ultimately had a strong influence on the political and especially ideological shape of contemporary Russia, which is a mix of Soviet and Tsarist traditions. When I write about the rainbow-brown alliance in Ukraine, I in no way intend to morally equate the victim state of aggression with the state of the aggressor. It’s clear who is who. Yet the similarities seem clear. In the victim state, just as in the aggressor state, a syncretic worldview dominates in politics, the media and public opinion. A worldview in which extreme figures from left and right are combined. If we are dealing with a red-brown alliance in Russia, then, as in the case of Ukraine, it seems justified to talk about the rainbow-Bander alliance or even directly, with only a slight dose of journalistic exaggeration, about the rainbow. -brown alliance.
Feminism and the spirit of the UPA
This ideological syncretism is difficult to understand in Poland, where divisions are very clear. For example, can you imagine a progressive feminist defending the Cursed Soldiers? Olga Tokarczuk, loved by left-wing salons, who publicly honors and praises the heroes of the anti-communist underground, who died not for accession to the European Union or the Istanbul Convention, but for the independence of their homeland? Not special.
Meanwhile, a similar mix of seemingly contradictory attitudes can be seen in Oksana Zabuzhko, who, with only a slight exaggeration, could be called Ukraine’s Olga Tokarchuk. Both excellent writers are friends.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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