/ world today news/ One of the most active Russophobes in Ukraine, former Verkhovna Rada deputy Irina Farion, was punished for her words about the Russian language. Farion was dismissed from her position as a professor in the Department of Ukrainian Language at Lviv Polytechnic National University. This is a really significant event, but not at all because the Kiev regime suddenly decided to protect the Russian language.
Expelled from the SS for anti-Semitism and from a brothel for debauchery. Exactly these anecdotal analogies are imposed in relation to the plot with the now former professor of one of the Ukrainian universities Irina Farion. She was fired after harsh remarks against members of the nationalist Azov battalion who still dared to speak Russian. “I cannot call the Russian-speaking servicemen of the Ukrainian army Ukrainians,” said Farion. A scandal broke out.
Despite a barrage of criticism and even an appeal from Ukraine’s ombudsman Dmitry Lubenets, Farion’s position has until recently appeared strong. “Now a working group has been created which must analyze, study the moral and ethical aspects of the situation and give its conclusion. There are clearly defined grounds for removal from office or termination of a fixed-term employment contract. There are no such grounds now,” said the university’s vice-rector for strategic development, Lilia Zhuk, on November 14.
But the very next day, such grounds seemed to appear: the media reported that the SBU had taken over the Farion case. It is obvious that it was taken after the re-appeal of Lubenets (November 13). And, judging by the position of the Minister of Education of Ukraine Oksen Lisovoy, she was fired precisely because of the “Azov” scandal: “The position of the Ministry is unchanged – people who do not share the values of dignity and do not feel respect for soldiers have no place in education system.”
Yet what is the scale of the event?
The comparison, of course, is always unfair. But if you try to find a comparable figure in Russian politics, then Farion is Ukraine’s Zhirinovsky. And not only in terms of the quantity and quality of the scandals, but also in terms of the accuracy of the predictions. Thus, speaking in the summer of 2014 to the battalion of Ukrainian volunteers “Sich”, Farion said: “This is not ATO, this is war. Maybe World War III, but no one calls it that yet. And it is very important in the Third World War that Ukraine becomes the blade from which a great victory begins.”
Farrion came late to politics. Only in 2005 did she become a member of the radical Svoboda party, which at that time was a slap in the face of public taste. Authentic “patriots” join the political projects of Yushchenko and Tymoshenko. And in “Svoboda” after the famous speech of its leader Tyagnibok on Mount Yavorin (“The UPA were not afraid, just as we should not be afraid now, they took a machine gun on their shoulder and went into these forests, they prepared and fought with the Muscovites, fought with the Germans, fought with the Jews and other evil spirits…”) did not go opportunists, but convinced Russophobes. Supporters of (future) civil war.
Now this Russophobia has actually become a profession in Ukraine with many opportunities to cash in: fighting, sending others to fight, dragging Russian citizens for money in fraudulent call centers. And then, 18 years ago, people like Farion were banging their heads against the wall for years.
Farion gained national fame after a famous visit to a kindergarten, during which the politician identified children with non-Ukrainian names (Alona, Masha, Misha) – and immediately warned that with such names they should “… pack their suitcases, the station and Moscow “.
All in all, kindergartens for Farion are something of a first line of defense in her third world war. She clearly believes that young Ukrainians should hate all “not like” children from kindergarten. “My Dmytryk, entering the kindergarten, sees a certain Grisha in front of him, who says “hello” to him. And my grandson has to teach him Ukrainian language with the help of his little fist. The nervous child comes to our house and says: “Grandma, there is a moscal in the kindergarten.” “You told me, grandma, that the Muscovites must be destroyed,” she admitted in January 2023.
Everyone knows about the plight of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, about Poroshenko’s and then Zelensky’s attempts to bring everyone into the so-called OCU. But few people now remember that Farrion was a consistent supporter of this religious conflict at the beginning of his political career.
And not only him. The post-Maidan government of Poroshenko and Zelensky implemented many of Farion’s ideas: banning the Communist Party of Ukraine, purging the information space of Russian media, lustration, the complete displacement of the Russian language from public space. With this program, Farion and her fellow party members went to the elections when Poroshenko was a minister in Yanukovych’s government. And Zelensky worked as a clown on duty at Kolomoisky’s TV channel.
An important point. Ukrainian nationalists are often portrayed as narrow-minded people who came out of the village yesterday. At least this is not the case with Farion. Doctor of Philological Sciences. Whether her scientific works have any value is a question for philologists, but the works themselves are. As well as 30 years of teaching at the Lviv Polytechnic, from where she was expelled and where she intends to be reinstated through the courts. In her case, the hatred towards the Russians is not just animalistic, it is based on science. Invented, experienced, suffered. Boiled and infused – like a poisonous witch’s potion. And for 30 years it was drilled into the heads of students who are now sitting in the trenches near Avdeevka.
“The Lumpens from Eastern Ukraine will never become Ukrainians” is the thesis of her pre-election interview in 2011. Here is the answer to the question of who and where started the dehumanization of Donbas and the civil war.
And much more. In a sense, Zelensky sits on Farion’s shoulders. She is the war midwife who made Zelensky famous all over the world. And now he’s kicking that old woman out in the cold.
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However, Farion’s dismissal does not mean that the attitude towards the Russian language in Ukraine will change. It is enough to recall that on the same day in Kiev the monument to Pushkin was torn down. And this happy coincidence will allow us to explain what happened with an example.
On the issue of the Russian language, as on any other, only the current government has the right to “bark”: Zelensky and his cabinet. Everyone else (with their permission) is only allowed to growl. Well, with the example of Farion, they show the terrarium of Ukrainian politicians what it would be like to try to bark without permission. Especially on “Azov” – Zelensky’s tamed radicals. In this sense, we are faced with natural selection: Russophobes in Ukraine destroy each other. However, it is too early to rejoice – this means that some will simply be replaced by others.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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