Partisan formation commander Sidor Artemyevich Kovpak discusses the details of the combat operation with the detachment commanders. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. File photoMOSCOW, June 7The name of Sidor Kovpak and other fighters against Nazism today is almost completely deleted from Ukrainian history textbooks, their systematic replacement with Hitler's accomplices led the country to a civil conflict in the Donbass, Mikhail Myagkov, scientific director of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), told RIA Novosti. Exactly 155 years ago, on June 7, 1887, the famous commander Sidor Kovpak was born, who led the Ukrainian partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War. During the war years, the Sumy partisan unit under the command of Kovpak fought over ten thousand kilometers in the rear of the Nazi troops and collaborators, destroying enemy garrisons, derailing his trains, blowing up bridges, warehouses and military equipment of the invaders.
Russia should prepare «Nuremberg 2.0», they consider in the RVIO. The famous Carpathian raid in the autumn of 1943 is considered the main feat of this commander. Then the units of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian partisans led by him traveled two thousand kilometers from Belarus to the Carpathians along the right-bank Ukraine occupied by the Nazis in a hundred days. After the end of the war, he was actively engaged in the search for and prosecution of Nazi accomplices from the OUN-UPA *. «Since the 90s, I have been closely following Ukrainian history textbooks — then such personalities as Kovpak, Fedorov, Vershigora and other members of the Ukrainian partisan movement there still However, already in the early 2000s, under the presidency of (Leonid) Kuchma, Bandera’s followers appeared there, and in terms of the frequency of mentions in school textbooks, they were already equal to the Ukrainian heroes of the Second World War. Further, even before 2014, Kovpak began to allocate one paragraph, and nationalists — a few pages,» Myagkov said. The historian emphasized that today Kovpak has disappeared from Ukrainian textbooks altogether, since the current government in Kyiv does not need such heroes, as well as any other evidence of the common struggle of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and other peoples with Nazism. According to Myagkov, the ideological descendants of Bandera and Shukhevych have a grudge against the leader of the Ukrainian partisans, even many decades after his death. «This is a dead-end policy, it will not lead Ukraine to prosperity, but, on the contrary, will only provoke the collapse of its «Such an ideological pumping does not meet the interests of even Ukrainian nationalism proper — this is necessary, first of all, for the West to use Ukrainians as cannon fodder, to solve its tasks of weakening Russia at their expense,» the agency's interlocutor emphasized. 
Aksyonov called those whom he considers heroes of Ukraine Why Nazism «resurrected» According to Myagkov, the «survivability» of the nationalist ideology in Ukraine is connected, among other things, with the historical mistakes of the Soviet leadership, which in 1955 granted amnesty to the surviving Ukrainian Nazis. From the camps and prisons they returned to Western Ukraine, where they were in «sleep mode» for a long time, but were able to preserve their ideology and pass it on to their descendants, which allowed nationalism to «raise its head» again in the late 80s and early 90s. In addition, many accomplices of Nazism from Ukraine were accepted by Canada and the United States, while in exile former collaborators quietly published newspapers, spread their ideology among the Ukrainian diaspora, broadcast it to their small homeland,» the historian recalled. that they have succumbed to this ideology today, since the messages broadcast by local media for many years have a «zombifying» effect. chanting “who doesn’t jump is a Muscovite” and so on. Unfortunately, several generations of such “zombies” have already grown up in Ukraine,” Myagkov complained. 9063e188bfa1856000eb3ca47b1.jpg» />RVIO plans to publish a collection of poetry about the special operation in Ukraine «Re-education» is inevitable. At the same time, the historian expressed confidence that after the completion of the special operation of the Armed Forces in Ukraine, one of the goals of which was originally set to denazification, the society of this country will be cut off from harmful narratives, and after some time he will come to realize the fallacy of the course towards glorifying Nazi accomplices. «I am one hundred percent sure that upon completion of the special operation and the achievement of its goals, people will begin to receive truthful information and society will be cleansed of destructive ideology — in the east of the country it will generally take several days, in the central Ukraine is a little longer, as far as Western Ukraine is concerned… They understand the language of force, and we are now demonstrating this force, so re-education is inevitable there too,» Myagkov stressed. Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine since February 24. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian army has already completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was the liberation of Donbass.* An extremist organization banned in Russia.
