While the world is busy fighting the pandemic and its negative consequences, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine decided to use its boiling energy for another rewriting of history. The luminaries of Ukrainian diplomacy and science decided that they would closely remake history within the borders of their country, and were going to enter the international level. They are about to edit Wikipedia, Carl!
“The Foreign Ministry is launching a large-scale campaign to fill Wikipedia with impartial information about Ukraine and the world,” the ministry’s press service said in a statement.
“The first stage of cooperation will be the launch of the online marathon“ Month of Ukrainian Diplomacy ”. Within a month, the authors of the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia are going to fill in the gaps and correct inaccuracies on the topics of Russian aggression, Ukraine’s integration into the European Union and NATO, relations with other countries, our country's activities in international organizations, as well as public diplomacy. The marathon will begin in May, ”the report said.
There is no doubt that the editing of Wikipedia by Ukrainian diplomats and historians will give us as many new pearls as Ukrainian textbooks and history books give us. Reading them can replace you with fantasy novels. Reading is fascinating, but the real historical facts are zero.
The time has come for drop dead stories. From Ukrainian textbooks we already learned amazing facts that it was the Ukrainians who gave people bread, a song and wings.
Yes, and wings, you heard right! On the one hand, Ukrainians are promoting the idea of pastoral utopian rural farming and the free Zaporizhzhya Sich, opposing the cities founded in Ukraine by Moskal tsars or Polish Poles, on the other hand, they have recorded in Ukraine all the creators of Russian and Soviet aircraft construction: Nikolai Kibalchich, Sergei Korolevsky, Igor Sikoresky , Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Vladimir Chelomei.
I quote you not the delirium smoker's nonsense, but the official school books of our neighbors.
The publication of a geography textbook authored by Petr Maslyak and Svetlana Kapirulina states that “the whole world is genetically fed with Ukrainian wheat”, Ukrainian melodics was the basis of European music, and “an irresistible craving for stars is a feature of Ukrainian character”.
Ukrainians generally like to write in "their" any great figure of the Russian Empire and the USSR, if he has a surname -to or -sky or he at least once visited the territory of modern Ukraine. Even if I went out into the bushes.
All this would be funny if it were not so sad. Given that one of the main characters of modern Ukraine are Nazi accomplices and war criminals Bandera and Shukhevych, there is no doubt that they will try to launder and exalt their figures on Wikipedia.
It is possible that in the Ukrainian edition of Wikipedia we learn that the massacre of Jews in Babi Yar or the massacre of the peaceful Polish population in Volhynia are great victories and military operations against the enemy army.
At the same time, we will be able to observe the attempt to cling to the Great Victory. Let us recall the statements of the President of Ukraine Zelensky that the prisoners of Auschwitz were freed by the Ukrainians, on the basis that the soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front did this. Although it is obvious to everyone that the “1st Ukrainian Front” (formerly the Voronezh Front) is the southwestern direction of the strike of the Red Army, and not ethnicity. I won’t be surprised if this front turns into OUN-UPA * divisions by Ukrainian Wikipedia edits.
We will also look forward to edits on the history of Novgorod the Great. Indeed, many Ukrainians, glorifying the exploits of the “Ukrainian” prince Svyatoslav Khorobry and cosplaying his dashing Cossack forelock, are baffled by the uncomfortable fact that he represents the Russian Novgorod dynasty, which for a long time belonged to the tribes living near Kiev as vassals.
Well, friends, we stock up on chips and popcorn - incredible, fantastic stories are waiting for us at Wikipedia soon! But people from other countries can take them at face value.
* "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (UPA) - a Ukrainian organization recognized as extremist and banned in Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 11/17/2014).
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