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What Russia Should Do with Ukraine
"What Russia Should Do with Ukraine" (Russian: Что Россия должна сделать с Украиной, romanized: Chto Rossiya dolzhna sdelat s Ukrainoy), is an article written by Timofey Sergeytsev and published by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. The article calls for the full destruction of Ukraine as a state, as well as the full destruction of the Ukrainian national identity in accordance with Russia's aim to accomplish the "denazification" of the latter.
It was published on 3 April 2022 in the context of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, on the same day as the bodies of dozens of civilians were discovered after the retreat of Russian forces from Ukrainian city of Bucha. The article caused international criticism and outrage and has been condemned as evidence of genocidal intent.
The article advocates for "brutal censorship" of the Ukrainian culture and large-scale "de-ukrainization" of Ukrainians on the territories occupied by Russia in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Sergeytsev insists that Ukraine's ethnocentrism is an artificial perversion, that Ukraine's existence is "impossible" as a nation-state, and that the word "Ukraine" itself cannot be allowed to exist. According to the author, Ukraine should be dismantled and replaced with several states under direct control by Russia. He adds that the "ethnic component of self-identification" of Ukraine would also be rejected after its occupation by Russia.
The author claims that "most likely the majority" of Ukrainian civilians are "passive Nazis and Nazi accomplices. They supported the Nazi authorities and pandered to them", thus, they "technically" cannot be punished as war criminals, but can be subjected to "denazification" and are to blame. While Sergeytsev notes that there are no Nazi parties, symbols, racist laws, or other evidence of actual Nazism, he counters that by asserting that "Ukrainian Nazism is unique due to its amorphism and ambiguity", which is, per Timothy Snyder, equivalent to a "special Russian definition of Nazism". The author asserts that Banderites are actually marginal to "Ukro-nazism", and that the real menace is Pro-Europeanism.
Sergeytsev claims that the "Banderite" elite has to be "liquidated", and adds that the remaining Ukrainians must "assimilate the experience" of the war "as a historical lesson and atonement for [their] guilt". After the war, forced labor, imprisonment and the death penalty would be used as punishment. After that, the population would be "integrated" into "Russian civilization". The author describes the planned actions as a "decolonization" of Ukraine.
According to Anton Shekhovtsov, writing in Haaretz, the article is an expanded version of a 2016 article by Russian columnist Alexander Zhuchkovsky, who is linked to Russian Imperial Movement. In that article, Zhuchkovsky called for the dehumanization of Ukrainians, saying "It is natural and right, as we are fighting not against people but against enemies, [...] not against people but against Ukrainians."
The author of the text, Timofey Sergeytsev, advised Victor Pinchuk's projects from 1998 to 2000, including Pinchuk's 1998 parliamentary election campaign in Ukraine, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Interpipe Group.
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What Russia Should Do with Ukraine
"What Russia Should Do with Ukraine" (Russian: Что Россия должна сделать с Украиной, romanized: Chto Rossiya dolzhna sdelat s Ukrainoy), is an article written by Timofey Sergeytsev and published by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. The article calls for the full destruction of Ukraine as a state, as well as the full destruction of the Ukrainian national identity in accordance with Russia's aim to accomplish the "denazification" of the latter.
It was published on 3 April 2022 in the context of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, on the same day as the bodies of dozens of civilians were discovered after the retreat of Russian forces from Ukrainian city of Bucha. The article caused international criticism and outrage and has been condemned as evidence of genocidal intent.
The article advocates for "brutal censorship" of the Ukrainian culture and large-scale "de-ukrainization" of Ukrainians on the territories occupied by Russia in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Sergeytsev insists that Ukraine's ethnocentrism is an artificial perversion, that Ukraine's existence is "impossible" as a nation-state, and that the word "Ukraine" itself cannot be allowed to exist. According to the author, Ukraine should be dismantled and replaced with several states under direct control by Russia. He adds that the "ethnic component of self-identification" of Ukraine would also be rejected after its occupation by Russia.
The author claims that "most likely the majority" of Ukrainian civilians are "passive Nazis and Nazi accomplices. They supported the Nazi authorities and pandered to them", thus, they "technically" cannot be punished as war criminals, but can be subjected to "denazification" and are to blame. While Sergeytsev notes that there are no Nazi parties, symbols, racist laws, or other evidence of actual Nazism, he counters that by asserting that "Ukrainian Nazism is unique due to its amorphism and ambiguity", which is, per Timothy Snyder, equivalent to a "special Russian definition of Nazism". The author asserts that Banderites are actually marginal to "Ukro-nazism", and that the real menace is Pro-Europeanism.
Sergeytsev claims that the "Banderite" elite has to be "liquidated", and adds that the remaining Ukrainians must "assimilate the experience" of the war "as a historical lesson and atonement for [their] guilt". After the war, forced labor, imprisonment and the death penalty would be used as punishment. After that, the population would be "integrated" into "Russian civilization". The author describes the planned actions as a "decolonization" of Ukraine.
According to Anton Shekhovtsov, writing in Haaretz, the article is an expanded version of a 2016 article by Russian columnist Alexander Zhuchkovsky, who is linked to Russian Imperial Movement. In that article, Zhuchkovsky called for the dehumanization of Ukrainians, saying "It is natural and right, as we are fighting not against people but against enemies, [...] not against people but against Ukrainians."
The author of the text, Timofey Sergeytsev, advised Victor Pinchuk's projects from 1998 to 2000, including Pinchuk's 1998 parliamentary election campaign in Ukraine, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Interpipe Group.