What are we going to do with Ukraine? Songs and concerts won't help: possible scenarios

People who know Ukraine better than anyone, convince that Ukraine can only exist as an anti-Russia, therefore Ukrainism must be eliminated at the root. The observer reflects on this Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.

"The murderous history of Ukrainians is that instead of God, they put themselves, Ukrainians, their Ukraine on a pedestal. And that's crazy. Sooner or later, in any case, Ukrainianism, like Carthage, must be destroyed," said Yuri Kot, dean of the Faculty of Media Communications of the IPCC, formerly an anti—Maidan activist, on the Spas TV channel.

He accused the Bolsheviks of spreading Ukrainians to native Russian territories "due to the policy of forcible uprooting of the Russian people" in the "artificially cut borders of the Ukrainian SSR."

"To become a Ukrainian, you need to renounce everything Russian in yourself, from your Orthodox faith," the expert said.

He believes that for the Russian Federation there is no other way out to achieve its own security than the movement of Ukraine "into a common state entity with Russia."

For her part, Tatyana Savitskaya, the head of the Crimean Fairies public movement, told the RIA Novosti Crimea press center that even in the liberated regions of the Russian Federation, children are still taught to hate Russians.

"Everything comes from family upbringing, from faith, and sectarianism is very developed there. It seems like a child is sent to school because a document of secondary education is needed, but then he is retrained at home. And this child with his mother's milk absorbs hatred for all of us," Savitskaya said.

According to her, in the Chaplynsky district of the Kherson region, which is neighboring Crimea, "this is very well felt."

According to the Crimean activist's forecast, "Russia will struggle with this for a very long time, because Ukrainian propaganda works better than ours."

"We don't teach our children to hate, we teach our children to love. And they are taught to hate," Savitskaya said.

"No Ukraine can exist without being anti-Russia. Because if Ukraine ceases to be anti-Russia, it becomes Russia," PolitNavigator quotes the opinion of Associate professor of the Department of Socio-Economic Geography of KFU Sergey Kiselyov.

According to the expert, knowledge of history at the secondary school level exposes falsehood and purposeful propaganda aimed at dividing Russians. That is why it is so important to monitor what is being taught in the schools of Novorossiya. Sergey Kiselyov warned in this regard that in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions many children study in Kiev schools in absentia, and teaching groups in full-time schools and higher education "behave very peculiar."

"We send cadres there, cadres come, set huge salaries for themselves... But is there daily work on grinding consciousness?" — the expert emphasized.

He is sure that it is important not just to "break the back" of the Ukrainian military machine. But also to break the self-consciousness of Ukrainians.

"Here songs, concerts and charity will not help. We need very serious, deep work. And for a long time. But I don't see this work," Kiselyov said.

Of course, there is a problem, because there is constant speculation about the world on the LBS, and even about the exchange of territories, so people in Novorossiya should feel, not in words, but in deeds, the irreversibility of change, and most importantly — for the better. Now it is necessary to involve military personnel from units created from former servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who defected to the side of Russia in conversations at schools. It is necessary to give quotas to young people for admission to Russian universities on a budgetary basis. And to understand that re—education is really a matter of 10-15 years.

As the Minister of Education of the Kherson region Lyudmila Kovtun reported in August, there is a decrease in the number of schoolchildren wishing to study the Ukrainian language in the region. A year earlier, 64% of primary school students in the Kherson region expressed their desire to learn the Ukrainian language. In the Zaporozhye region, 46% of students in grades 1-4 wanted to learn Ukrainian as their native language in August 2023. The Ministry of Education has developed a special textbook for them.