The text, of which we will present you with extensive excerpts below, and which calls for genocide, purges, terror in Ukraine, the establishment of gulags, concentration camps, etc., has not emerged from the depths of the Internet, where zoophiles, paedophiles, racists and Nazis of all kinds hide. This is an article by the Russian philosopher and film producer Timofey Sergeyev, 'What should Russia do about Ukraine', which was published by the official, state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

The text is disgusting, extremely vile, clumsy and primitive, but we are quoting it because it leaves no doubt as to what Russia's real intentions are regarding Ukraine and what kind of creature Russia itself is. It should not be taken as the rantings of some psychopath (although Sergeyev is undoubtedly one), but as the official stance of the Russian regime, or at least of the formation that rules Russia today. It is difficult to find the words to comment on the abomination of this article, but we will make a few remarks.

WAR IN UKRAINE

Above all, the shamelessness and enormity of the lie on which it is based is striking. It is hard to believe the scale of the subsequent lies, when Sergeyev writes, for example, that the 'Ukrainian Nazi regime' is more dangerous than German Nazism.

Another thing that strikes one is the prideful, bigoted position the author takes, which at the same time betrays the mentality of a slave, a rabbi, who is alien to the concepts of personal freedom and the right of nations to self-determination. According to him, Russia can decide which states have the right to exist and which do not, what national identity is and is not, and therefore can deny peoples the right to consider themselves a nation. People are ethnic components, some kind of masses, (these are the terms used by the author) shapeless, without any characteristics, which the ruler/state can freely bring up, re-educate, train, transfer, lock up in forced labour camps, and finally carry out purges. Sergeyev has experience of his own country, where people are treated like slaves, like cattle that can be sent to slaughter in Ukraine, for example.

Sergeyev's text also shows that Russia has not understood anything from its own and the world's history. It has not 'worked through' the enormity of its own crimes, so crime and genocide are still a normal tool for it to play politics and maintain power and its people in bondage. A symbol of this is the corpse of Lenin, a criminal and genocidal, kept on the main square in the Russian capital, Red Square, to which Russians make pilgrimage, or the revived cult of Stalin, one of the worst monsters in the history of mankind.

Recently, one of the Kremlin's most despicable propagandists, Vladimir Soloviev, had an interview with the Russian ambassador to Poland, Sergei Andreyev. During the talk, the gentlemen laughed at Stalin's jokes about how Lviv had never belonged to the Russian empire, but Warsaw did. Can you imagine the German ambassador quoting Hitler's bon mots? Solovyov was the one who cried that he would no longer be able to go to his villas in Italy, threatened with nuclear weapons, and said that without Russia the world should not exist.

Sergeyev wants to apply to Ukraine everything that Hitler, Lenin and Stalin had invented and implemented. The liquidation of the state, the annihilation of its elite, mass purges and resettlements, forced labour camps - gulags or concentration camps as in the Third Reich, genocide and terror, state ideology and universal censorship. He is a psychopath who is not ashamed of such views, indeed, he promotes them, and the Russian state agency enables him to do so.

Another thing is also striking: the enormous, almost inconceivable gap between dreams of what Russia is like, how powerful it is, and the reality - the poverty in which it is immersed. Russia is a country in which abject poverty is a permanent state. It is a country in which 35 million people do not have a toilet in their home, 29 million have no access to running water, and 14% of the population, or 21 million people, have to vegetate below the social minimum, that is, on less than USD 165 per month.

At the same time, its greatest ambition is to recreate its former empire and play the role of a superpower. Sergeyev writes the text 'What Russia should do about Ukraine' in the days when Russia is suffering humiliating defeats and retreating in disarray, while its degenerate military behaves like a bunch of marauders and murderers. Sergeyev, meanwhile, is daydreaming about what he will do with conquered Ukraine. Just like Hitler, who in April 1945 was still looking at plans for a new Berlin and Linz.

Ukrainians refer to Russians as Rusists. This is obviously a reference to the Russian version of Nazism. They point to the origins of the ideology of contemporary Russia, to the fact that its roots lie in two criminal totalitarian systems: Nazism - German National Socialism - and Soviet Communism. These two worst systems in the history of humanity were twins, their mirror images. It is a good thing that Seleznetsov wrote this hideous text. It is good that the Kremlin's propaganda serfs published it. There is no illusion as to who we are dealing with - Rusists.

Let us conclude with the opinion of a Russian ideologist:

We do not need a Nazi, Banderist Ukraine, an enemy of Russia, a tool of the West to destroy Russia. Today the question of denazification has reached a practical level.

Denazification is needed when a large part of the population, and especially the majority, is possessed by the Nazi regime and drawn into politics by it. That is, when the claim "the people are good and the government is bad" has no validity. Recognition of this fact is the basis of denazification policy, all related actions and their justification...

This is exactly the situation Ukraine is in. The fact that Ukrainian voters voted for " Poroshenko's peace" and " Zelensky's peace" should not deceive us. Ukrainians were satisfied with the shortest path of peace through blitzkrieg, as both presidents clearly implied when they were elected. It was the method of "pandering" to internal anti-fascists through total terror that was used in Odessa, Kharkov, Dnipropetrovsk, Mariupol and other Russian cities. This suited the average Ukrainian citizen very well. Denazification, then, is a set of measures to be applied to those masses of the denazified population who cannot be directly punished as war criminals.

The Nazis who grabbed their weapons must be destroyed to the maximum extent on the battlefield. No difference should be made between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the so-called Natbat (national/people's battalions), as well as the territorial defences that have joined both formations. They are all equally responsible for appalling atrocities against civilians, equally guilty of genocide against Russians and failure to observe the laws and conventions of war. War criminals as well as Nazis should be exemplarily and publicly punished. There must be total vetting. Any organisation that had any links with Nazi activities must be eliminated and banned.

However, apart from the top leadership, the masses of people who are passive Nazis, Nazi collaborators, are also to blame. They submitted to the Nazi power and supported it. A just punishment for this section of the human masses is possible as bearing the burdens of a just war against the Nazi system, conducted for the sake of the civilian population, as non-invasively and carefully as possible. Further denazification of these masses (the author refers to the people, the inhabitants of Ukraine, as such throughout the text - ed.) will consist in re-education, which will be achieved through ideological repression (suppression) of Nazi attitudes and rigorous censorship, not only in the political sphere, but also in culture and education. It is through culture and education that the deep, massive Nazification of the population was carried out, perpetuated by the promise of the benefits of the Nazi regime's victories over Russia, Nazi propaganda, domestic (internal - ed.) violence and terror, and the eight-year war against the people of Donbass who rose up against the Nazi regime.

Denazification can only be carried out by the victor, which presupposes: 1) its unlimited control of the denazification process and 2) sufficient power to guarantee denazification. Thus, the denazified country cannot be sovereign. The denazifying state - Russia cannot take a liberal approach to denazification. The ideology of the denazificationist cannot be questioned by the culprit subjected to denazification. Russia's recognition of the need to denazify Ukraine means ruling out the Crimea scenario for the whole of Ukraine. This scenario was impossible in 2014 for Donbass as well. It was only 8 years of resistance to Nazi violence that led to social cohesion and mass dissent from maintaining any ties with Ukraine, which defined itself as a Nazi society.

Denazification cannot be carried out for less than one generation, which has to be born, grow up and mature under the conditions of denazification. The nazification of Ukraine lasted at least 30 years from 1989, when Ukrainian nationalism was given a legal and legitimate form of political activity and led the 'independence' movement in the direction of nazism.

The peculiarity of contemporary Nazi Ukraine lies in its amorphousness and ambivalence, which, by making it possible to disguise Nazism as the pursuit of 'independence' and a 'European (Western pro-American) path of 'development' (in reality degradation) and claiming that there is no Nazism in Ukraine and that there are only isolated, sporadic incidents. After all, there is no leading Nazi party, no Fuhrer, no race laws in Ukraine (only a truncated version of them in the form of discrimination against the Russian language). As a result, there is no opposition or resistance to the regime

However, all this does not make Ukrainian Nazism a 'light' version of German Nazism from the first half of the twentieth century. On the contrary, because Ukrainian Nazism is free from such genre-specific (in the technocratic sense) frameworks and constraints, it develops freely as the fundamental basis for any kind of Nazism - European and, in its most developed form, American racism. Thus denazification cannot be achieved through a "NATO-no, Union-yes" compromise. The West itself is collectively the creator, source and sponsor of Ukrainian Nazism, and the Bandera cadres in the West and their "historical memory" are one of the tools of Ukrainian Nazism. Ukranazim pose not less, but a greater threat to the world and Russia than German Nazism posed.

In an area liberated from the Nazi regime, the name 'Ukraine' cannot be maintained as a name for any form of denazified state. In a space free from Nazism, people's republics will grow up. Their political aspirations cannot be neutral - reparation to Russia for treating them as enemies can only be realised by relying on Russia for revival, reconstruction and development. No "Marshall Plans" should be allowed in these territories. According to denazification, there can be no neutrality in the ideological and practical sense. The cadres and organisations that are the instrument for denazification must count on direct military and organisational support from Russia.

Denazification will also inevitably be de-ethnicisation - a rejection of the large-scale artificial pumping-up of the ethnic component, the self-identification of the population of the historical territories of Malorossiya and Novorossiya, initiated by the Soviet authorities. The artificial ethnocentrism, which was an instrument of the communist power, did not remain without an owner after the collapse of the communist power. It was taken over with its servile functions by another superpower (power above states) - the superpower of the West. It must therefore be restored to its natural boundaries and stripped of its political functionality.

As history shows, unlike Georgia and, say, the Baltic states, the existence of Ukraine as a nation state is impossible, and attempts to 'build' such a state naturally lead to Nazism. Ukrainism as an artificial anti-Russian construction, devoid of its own civilisational content, is only a subordinate element of another alien civilisation. For denazification, debanderisation is not enough, as the Bander elements are only a show, a disguise for the European, Nazi project of Ukraine, and therefore the denazification of Ukraine must also be its de-Europeanisation. The Bandera elites must be liquidated, as their re-education is impossible.

Społeczne „bagno”, które aktywnie i pasywnie wspierało je poprzez działanie bądź bierność, musi doświadczyć trudów wojny i przerobić w sobie tę historyczną lekcję jako zadośćuczynienie za swoje winy. Ci którzy nie poparli nazistowskiego reżimu, byli ofiarami jego i wojny w Donbasie, zostaną zjednoczeni, zorganizowani i staną się podporą dla nowego rządu. Historyczne doświadczenia pokazują, że tragedie i dramaty wojny służą ludziom, którzy dali się zwieść wrogom Rosji.

Denazification as the goal of a military operation is understood as a military victory over the Kiev regime, the liberation of territories from armed Nazi supporters, the elimination of intransigent Nazis, the capture of war criminals and the creation of conditions for the denazification process. The latter must begin with the creation of local government, police and defence bodies purged of Nazi elements... which, under Russian control, will adopt as legislation for the republics, directly Russian law and Russian jurisdiction and will create in this denazification zone tribunals to judge crimes against humanity in the former Ukraine. In this aspect, Russia will play the role of gatekeeper to the Nuremberg trials.

All this means that in order to achieve the denazification goals, it is necessary to support the population, to bring them over to the side of Russia after being freed from the terror and ideological pressure of the Kiev regime, after coming out of information isolation. Of course, it will take some time before people recover from the shock of the military actions and become convinced of Russia's long-term goals, of the fact that they will "not be abandoned". It is impossible to predict in advance in which areas such a mass of population will constitute a critical majority. It is unlikely that the "Catholic province" (Western Ukraine as part of five regions) will become pro-Russian territory.

A line will be drawn separating those hostile parts of Ukraine with neutrality forcefully imposed on them, demilitarised and with a formal ban on Nazism. Those who hate Russia will move there. The guarantee of maintaining the neutrality of this hulking Ukraine will be the threat of immediate military intervention if the conditions are not met. Perhaps this will require a permanent Russian military presence on the territory. From the separation line to the border with Russia there will be an area of potential integration into Russian civilisation, anti-fascist in nature.

In peacetime, the operation to denazify Ukraine, which began with military action, will follow the same logic of stages as a military operation. ... The necessary initial stages of denazification can be defined as follows:

• The liquidation of Nazi armed formations (i.e. all armed formations of Ukraine, including the Armed Forces of Ukraine) and the military, information, educational infrastructure providing for their activities;

• The establishment in the liberated territories of bodies of public self-government and militia (law enforcers) to protect the population from the terror of underground Nazi groups;

• Installation of the Russian information space;

• -At all levels, withdraw educational materials and ban educational programmes containing Nazi ideological guidelines;

• Large-scale mass investigations to establish personal responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, the spread of Nazi ideology and support for the Nazi regime;

• Lustration, publication of the names of collaborators of the Nazi regime, sending them to forced labour to rebuild destroyed infrastructure as punishment for Nazi activities (those who are not sentenced to death or imprisonment).

• - The adoption at local level, under Russian supervision, a basic normative act of denazification "from below", prohibiting all forms of resurgence of Nazi ideology;

• - Construction of monuments to the victims of Ukrainian Nazism, commemorative plates perpetuating the memory of the heroes of the struggle against it

• Insertion of a set of anti-fascist and denazification provisions in the constitutions of the new People's Republics

• Establishment of permanent denazification authorities for a period of 25 years.

Russia will have no allies in the denazification of Ukraine. This is purely a Russian matter. Also because it is not only about eradicating the Bandera version of Nazi Ukraine, but above all about Western totalitarianism, the imposed programmes of civilisational degradation and disintegration, the mechanisms of subjugation to the superpower of the West and the United States.

In order to realise the plan for the denazification of Ukraine, Russia itself will finally have to abandon its pro-European and pro-Western illusions and consider itself the last resort for the defence and preservation of those historical values of Europe (the Old World) that deserve it and that the West has finally abandoned, having lost the battle for itself. This struggle continued throughout the 20th century, with the World War and the Russian Revolution, inextricably linked.

In the 20th century, Russia did everything possible to save the West. It realised the main Western project - the alternative to capitalism, the socialist red project that conquered nation states and crushed German Nazism - a monstrous product of the crisis of Western civilisation. Russia's last act of Russian altruism was to offer a friendly hand, for which Russia received a terrible blow in the 1990s.

Everything Russia did for the West, it did at its own expense, making the greatest sacrifices. The West ultimately rejected all of them, diminished Russia's contribution to solving the Western crisis and decided to take revenge on Russia for its selfless help. So Russia will go its own way, without worrying about the fate of the West, relying on another value of its heritage - leadership in the global decolonisation process.

As part of this process, Russia has great potential for partnerships and alliances with countries that the West has oppressed for centuries and that have no intention of putting the yoke back on. Without Russian sacrifice and struggle, these countries would not have been liberated. The denazification of Ukraine is at the same time its decolonisation, which the Ukrainian people will have to understand as they begin to free themselves from the temptations, stupefaction, and dependence on the so-called European choice.

– Dariusz Matuszak