Putin’s ‘final solution’ for Ukraine
A MANIFESTO for ethnic cleansing and genocide dubbed a blueprint for “the final solution of the Ukrainian issue”, has been shared by a Kremlin mouthpiece.
The essay by commentator Timofey Sergeytsev was published by state media outlet RIA Novosti, suggesting it was approved by senior figures in Putin’s circle.
Sergeytsev says: “There must be a total lustration [purification].”
He calls for the name Ukraine to be eradicated and its existence as an independent state to end.
Instead, the country should be under the control of a Russian “department for the denazification of Ukraine”, which would control a version of the Nuremberg Trials.
He envisages “mass investigative actions to establish personal responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, the spread of Nazi ideology and support for the Nazi regime”.
Sergeytsev says “denazification... can in no way be less than one generation.Any organisations that have associated themselves with the practice of Nazism [must be] liquidated and banned.
“However, in addition to the top, a significant part of the masses, which are passive Nazis, accomplices of Nazism, are also guilty.”
He seeks “liquidation of armed Nazi formations (any armed formations of Ukraine, including the Armed Forces of Ukraine), as well as the military, information, and educational infrastructure that ensures their activity”.
He also calls for the “Bandera elite” – nationalists – to be “eliminated”.Accomplices “must survive the hardships of the war and assimilate the experience as a historical lesson and atonement for its guilt” and face forced labour.
Control
“Those who resist will face “the death penalty or imprisonment”.
The article claims Russia is engaged in a “just war against the Nazi system” and “denazification can only be carried out by the winner” – Moscow – which must have “absolute control”.
Sergeytsev says denazification will “inevitably also be a de-Ukrainisation.A rejection of the large-scale artificial inflation of the ethnic component of selfidentification of the population”.
He envisages “people’s republics” of the type already in eastern Ukraine.The “haters of Russia” will be forced to live in a western “Catholic province”.
Sergeytsev concludes Russia must give up any hope of friendship with the West.
He says the denazification of Ukraine “is at the same time its decolonisation”, which the population “will have to understand as it begins to free itself from the intoxication, temptation and dependence of the so-called European way”.
The Russian-born writer previously worked in Ukraine.