'Substate' with 'subhumans': What one gets to know about Ukraine in Belarusian bookstores
Bookstores of the Belarusian city of Hrodna are full of Ukrainophobic writing. There are no pro-Ukrainian or at least ‘neutral’ books.
Although oficially Belarus is standing neutral in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the country’s book shops are piled with propagandist Russian publication of anti-Uktrainian tenor.
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For example, in the notorious ‘The Battle for Novorossiya’ its author tells about the birth of the ‘Ukrainian fascism’, the ‘heroic’ defense of Sloviansk by separatists and calls bringing down the Malaysian Boeing a ‘provocation’. Ukrainians (the author use the nickname ‘Ukrops’) are shown as punishers and rapists who kill people and destroy schools and kindergartens in the east of their own country.
Valery Korovin, the author of the book “The End of Project ‘Ukraine’”considers Ukraine as a substate that “failed to become a real state for twenty years of independence from Russia”. According to the the author, those who met with failure in establishing a ‘full-fledged state’ should be considered as ‘subhumans’ – and this is a direct incitement of ethnic hatred.
Disreputable National Bolshevik Eduard Limonov (“Kiev kaputt” and former Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov (memoir “Ukraine at the crossroads”) are also on the list of Ukrainophobian writers. Interestingly, after the fall of Yanukovych’s regime Azarov fled to Austria. In Ukraine a number of criminal cases were opened against him.
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History of Ukraine is painted in in black colours. For example, Leonid Mlechin, a former KGB officer, ‘dispels’ the ‘myth’ of Holodomor (Famine-Henocide) of 1933, a national tragedy of Ukraine. He also states that the Ukrainian Insurgent Army’s struggle against Germans and Bolsheviks was nothing but activity of armed gangs.
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