INTERVIEW WITH THE GERMAN SOCIO-POLITICAL PUBLICATION „DIE WELT”

Leading researcher at the Department of Ethnopolitical Science of our Institute, Candidate of Historical Sciences Anatolii Podolskyi gave a lengthy interview to the well-known European, German edition “Die Welt”. The interview with A. Podolsky was conducted by Austrian journalist Stefan Schocher.

In his interview, the scholar emphasized, among other things, that quite often and quite accurately some domestic and foreign analysts compare the development of current events with the beginning of World War II. There are similarities, but there are also many differences. In my opinion, the scholar noted, Putin and his regime now enjoy much more support in Russian society than the Hitler regime of the time. In Germany and Austria, there was resistance to the Nazi regime in the late 1930s and during World War II. Today, in Russia, there is no resistance. Therefore, this war is not only the responsibility of a dictator or a totalitarian regime, but also the responsibility of Russian society. Russians support Putin, they hate Putin, they may be afraid of Putin, but they have done nothing over the past 10 years to stop him.

Anatolii Podolskyi

Answering a journalist’s question, A. Podolsky emphasized: „The Stalinist regime hated Ukrainians – the Ukrainian independence and national movement, Ukrainian literature, Ukrainian culture. There is a deep hatred of Ukrainian culture that Putin inherited from Stalin. Anti-Ukrainianism, anti-Semitism, and Ukrainophobia are the same thing. This is hatred”.

Answering a journalist’s question, A. Podolsky emphasized: “The Stalinist regime hated Ukrainians – the Ukrainian independence and national movement, Ukrainian literature, Ukrainian culture. There is a deep hatred of Ukrainian culture that Putin inherited from Stalin. Anti-Ukrainianism, anti-Semitism, and Ukrainophobia are the same thing. This is hatred.”

Publication of the interview in the Austrian edition of “Wiener Zeitung”