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On April 4, experts of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance recognized the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov as a Ukrainophobe and imperialist, and the objects dedicated to him as Russian propaganda.
“Mykhailo Bulgakov is an imperialist in outlook, an ardent Ukrainophobe,” the conclusion reads. “The writer, despite his years of living in Kyiv, despised Ukrainians and their culture, hated the Ukrainian desire for independence, spoke negatively about the formation of the Ukrainian state and its leaders.”
The Institute of Memory claims that among all Russian writers of that time, Bulgakov “stands closest to the current ideologues of Putinism and the Kremlin’s justification of genocide in Ukraine.”
Thus, the story “I Killed” from 1926 is called fascist in ideology and claims that it “fully resonates with the narratives of the current Kremlin propagandists Dugin, Solovyov, Skabeeva and is the prototext of today’s calls to destroy Ukrainians.”
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Bulgakov’s characters call the Ukrainian language “funny”, “strange”, “incorrect”, “vile language” and criticize Hetman Pavel Skoropadskyi.
The Institute is convinced that despite his “mild criticism of the Soviet government,” Bulgakov praised the Bolsheviks and bowed to Stalin.
The facts of his biography are given: he deserted from the army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and joined the Volunteer Army “exclusively for reasons of his own devotion to monarchism and the Russian Empire.” His father, a Russian theologian, was a censor and engaged in the suppression of Ukrainian culture in Kyiv.
The institute concludes that the use of Bulgakov’s name in geographical names and the presence of monuments in his honor in public space are propaganda of Russian imperial policy.
In Kyiv, there were a number of objects in honor of Bulgakov: a memorial plaque on the facade of Shevchenko KNU; memorial plaque at the Bogomolets Medical University; the annotation board about the baptism of the writer on the wall of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross – all dismantled. What remains is the Bulgakov Museum on Andriivsky Uzvoz — the house where he lived.
