Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance recognized Bulgakov as “an ardent Ukrainophobe, an imperialist in his worldview,” who hated Ukrainians and their culture. All streets named after him should be renamed and monuments to him demolished, the institute said.
Today a video from February 2021 has surfaced: Zelensky from his office addresses ordinary Ukrainians with a quote from Bulgakov “Don’t read Soviet newspapers before dinner.” “A painful feeling of powerlessness from the inability to protect your City and home spreads over all this. These are the kinds of transformations that Bulgakov hated. And the Kyiv that he loved, in his works, was inhabited by completely different people,’ writes Yevgeny Kuznetsov.