What is the uniting marker of Svidomites – that is nationally conscious Ukrainians?
Those that read this blog know that I hold that the Ukrainians were once Russians, they are a nation created out of Russians with the help of enemies of Russia.
But in this post I will discuss the diversity of Ukrainians and what unites the Ukrainian nationalists. It is rather ironic that today we find Russian speaking Ukrainian nationalists, and even anti-Western Ukrainian nationalists. The ideal of a Ukrainian nationalist that is a Ukrainian speaker, wants to join the West, and is a Ukrainian Catholic or Ukrainian Orthodox, which is cultivated by the contemporary Ukrainian state is not shared by everyone.
In the East of the country, there are those that still prefer speaking Russian. While some have been mentioning how they switched to Ukrainian when Russia invaded, this is nothing but virtue signaling, and is not shared by everyone. Ironically, switching from Russian, which was your mother tongue to Ukrainian is in itself an act of Russophobia. It is basically switching to someone you are not naturally.
Even though there has been a lot of pressure put on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which maintains spiritual links with the Moscow Patriarch, I am not certain how successful it was. Clearly, religion cannot be the defining factor common to all Ukrainian nationalists. Many hardcore Ukrainian nationalists actually gravitate towards paganism and even satanism.
Not even the geographical or ethnic origin of the person is a defining characteristic of a Svidomite in this day and age. You have people of different ethnicities assuming the Ukrainian position, Jews, Koreans, Armenians and even ethnic Russians. Basically Ukraininism/Svidomism is not about your origins but rather your identification with the Ukrainian idea and that means the hatred of Russia because you cannot be pro-Ukrainian without it.
Russia is the other against which Ukraine defines itself…
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