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A letter to Sergey Mironov from Ukraine about the threat Novorossia might face if Kiev triumphs over it 14 îêòÿáðÿ 2014 Here we’d like to call our readers’ attention to the letter from Ukraine received at the Internet reception of Sergey Mironov, the Chairman of Party A JUST RUSSIA and the Leader of the State Duma faction. As Mr. Mironov said: "I’m ready to stand by every word of the author (his name’s Vladimir), and I decided to publish this letter on all my sites. I hope Vladimir will excuse me." If Kiev still puts a squeeze on Novorossia, a new chapter will appear in the history school books of Ukraine. In brief, it will look something like this: In 2014 the Russian troops invaded Ukraine. They succeeded in occupying the Crimea, and after that the military activities were transferred to the territory of Donbas. Russia used barbarous warfare and the banned international conventions. Daily air bombardments, mortar firing of the cities and their shelling by heavy artillery, arrests and killing of the Ukrainian patriots, filtration camps for the refugees. One million of the Donbas residents was evacuated in the freight-cars to Russia and disappeared in the uranium mines (no information about the dates of their death and their grave sites). In their military operations, the Russian special services actively used the local "Fifth Column’ consisting of criminals, drug addicts and communists. All the-above-mentioned will be richly illustrated with the photos of the dead children and old people, the destroyed houses, and the grinning vicious gap-toothed faces of the ‘vatniks’ – occupants. But a young Ukrainian army managed to repel the aggressor. Boys and girls from all cities and villages of Ukraine were queuing at the military commissariats throughout nights. The main problem of the exhausted military commissars was to filter the beardless lads who had not reached the military age yet, and the old people trying to hide that they were over seventy. But the main thing is that people of Donbas supported their dear Ukrainian army. There unfolded a partisan resistance movement, and the ground beneath the occupants’ feet was burning..." And then there was a victory! Fifty thousand Russian soldiers and officers found their terminal home in the Ukrainian ground, anther fifty thousand had been captured, provided with food and cured before they were transported back to Russia by the comfortable white KamAZes, with a warning never to intrude Ukraine because Ukraine is not Russia, it’s different. Of course, there are people who will dispute such a school book. They will spit out, become outraged and twist a finger by a temple. At first, there will be rather many people of such kind. But the Verkhovna Rada will pass a law proclaiming revision, denial and falsification of the main events of the Ukrainian history to be a criminal offence punished with imprisonment for five or even 10 years. As a result, the number of "revisionists" will sharply decrease. The inspectors will become frequent visitors at schools, and their only task will be to check if the history of the great victory is taught in the right way. The teachers who teach history in the wrong way will not be imprisoned, they will be just humanly fired. Dozens of people will be put out of work, and still one or two criminal cases with a suspended sentence will be enough for making the teachers become as obedient as lambs. They who won’t be able to obey, will have to resign voluntarily in order "not to set up" the school. As a result of such a "cleaning", 10-12 years would be enough for getting the above-mentioned version of the 2014 events into the heads of not all but the majority of schoolchildren. And that’s the way how the Great Victory (may it sound as a pun) will become the act of a final birth of the Ukrainian nation because they lack just a bit for the final birth of the nation – a military victory over Russia. Well, the Victory will be gained, but it doesn’t matter that the given victory is just in films or on paper. Does it really matter? It’s not Cool Talk! It’s quite a real forecast but with the elements of joking. The Russian residents of Latvia are sure to understand me: we have already been through something like this although the variant was not so harsh as in Ukraine. That’s why the Ukrainian nationalists need so much a military victory in Donbas, at any price. "Being Ukrainian" cannot be identified by the language: it is difficult to suspect the Gallup Institute of sympathizing with Russia but according to it, the Russian language is the mother tongue for over 80% of the residents of Ukraine. It means that identification is possible but then the conclusion shall be drawn that the Ukrainians constitute less than one fifth of the population of the country; which means that they are just a large national minority. Why on earth is this minority pushing for its rights? The victory over Russia (that’s the way the overthrow of the corps of volunteer troops will be treated) will become the assemblage point of the Ukrainian nation, and an efficient instrument for bringing up children and teenagers. So far, Famine-Genocide has somehow performed this function. Of course, the use of ‘victims’ is not a bad thing to be used in the process of patriotic education but the ‘winners’ are much better. In addition, victory also symbolizes a fair retaliation for the victims. I do not like panic considerations of the "Putinpoured" spirit (they contain some unpleasant notes of malicious joy), I believe in the victory of Novorossia, and I try (to the best of my ability) to promote this victory. On the other hand, it causes anxiety when people belonging to the patriotic camp and those who ‘have some weight’ start saying some strange things such as "we don’t need Lugansk, neither need we Donetsk. What we need is Kiev, the mother of the Russian cities". A stupid idea is promoted that it is possible to surrender Donbas in order to somehow win the whole Ukraine – "unified and pro-Russian." I don’t think, and I won’t think that it is "pouring" and treason. It’s rather lack of experience of living on the post soviet territories that remained beyond the RF borders, and unwillingness to study this experience. At present, the ideology of vicious anti-Russian nationalism has won in Ukraine, and this ideology can’t be cured by economic sanctions, unemployment or something like that. The victory over Novorossia that will be treated as the victory over Russia will provide the Ukrainian nationalists with a certain degree of political safety for a long time, for tens of years in the future. They will manage to bring up a new generation full of hatred for Russia even under the conditions of cold, hunger and mass unemployment. On the contrary, the victory of Novorossia (at least on the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics) will strike such a blow on the aggressive nationalism from which it may even not recover. The person poisoned by nationalism and Russophobia can’t be persuaded by words, neither can he be overbought (if it’s not so, then a question emerges: what prevented overbuying of the whole Latvian or Estonian parliaments, for example?). Only force and bravery may solve this problem.
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