“Bulgakov — Get Out the Russian Chauvinist from Kyiv!”

Monument to the great writer Mikhail Bulgakov, who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, now stands in Kyiv wrapped in plastic with the words “Get Out the Russian chauvinist from Ukraine.”

We asked political observer Alexander Okhrimenko and our author Vladimir Grigoryan to comment on this event.

Vladimir Grigoryan:

“Bulgakov is a Russian writer.

He encroached on the puppet of the Germans — Skoropadsky.

Then Petlyura, who was shot in Paris by a Jewish youth for pogroms, and he, the youth, was acquitted in court.

But the worst thing is that he relied on the Russians, who began to pretend to be Ukrainians, under the pressure of Ukrainization.

Among the members of the commission in Kyiv, which abolished Bulgakov, all were Russian-speaking, some were real Russians, at least two in the past took an active part in Soviet propaganda, wrote books praising Soviet power.

They cannot help but understand the similarities between that terrible clownery that Bulgakov described and that which has been happening in the last ten years. Who is guilty?

Bulgakov.”

Alexander Okhrimenko:

“Bulgakov is a Ukrainian writer.

But now in Ukraine, unfortunately, a very popular “sharovarschina” is when a small group of jingoists simply knowingly do a provocation and try to provoke society.

Now the fashion for Hurray! Partiots is passing and therefore they have little PR and advertising and they deliberately make provocations similar to those with the Ukrainian writer Bulgakov.

But this is a “Maidan burp”, when Hurray! Patriots simply deliberately provoke and take meaningless actions.

Although this has a positive effect on Ukrainian society. Everything forbidden always attracts attention. Therefore, these events around Bulgakov sharply increased the popularity of this writer’s literary works among Ukrainian youth.

So now Bulgakov is in trend.”