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Title: Who are the Ukrainians?
Author: Dmitry Mrachnik
Date: 29 September 2022
Language: en
Topics: anti-ethnicism; anti-imperialism; multiculturalism; national liberation; Ukraine
Source: Retrieved on 19th October 2022 from https://www.nihilist.li/2022/09/29/who-are-the-ukrainians/
Notes: Translated by Ksenia Mejta. Edited by K0tyk.

Dmitry Mrachnik

Who are the Ukrainians?

Who are the Ukrainians? Have you ever had this question on your mind?

I think nobody will argue with the statement that a Ukrainian is

somebody self-defining as a defender of this country’s independence.

Somebody between Tauria and Polissia; between the Carpathians and

Donbas. There are no naturally born kings and aristocrats here. The only

reign here is the will for as much freedom and individualism as possible

in today’s conditions.

Ethnically, you can be Russian, Belarusian, Polish, Tatar or anybody

else, and your origin is generally irrelevant here, as long as you

strive for the independence of our space, defy the authority of

arrogance and rank, live honestly and don’t bother your neighbors.

So, the Ukrainians are the ones who have accepted the relevant identity

built around simple cultural-political values: live according to the

truth, knock down the ones who have reigned too long, and keep your

hands away from the borsch of another. If the point is to preserve

Ukraine as a phenomenon, such identity is much more advantageous than

any of its competitors.

Little sects struggling for national purity inevitably lose, as their

followers are driven to convert to “the Russian faith” since it

encourages chauvinism much stronger. In other words, if you are an

ethnicist, keep in mind that sooner or later your work–on bullying

everything without enough connection to the Rus or the Slavs–will play a

role of a bridge to the arrogance of Great Russia.

Ukrainianness doesn’t actually provide any strong roots for Russian-like

chauvinism, since on our territory it simply doesn’t benefit you.

Congratulate yourself on your pure blood all you want, but in the long

run, it won’t give you any privilege–in your career, love, politics etc,

you win either by your talent or your money.

Your status in Ukraine has little to do with your surname or your

descendance from somebody rich who hasn’t worked a day in their life.

Your status in Ukraine comes from your earnest work and refusal to

tolerate unfairness. The most Ukrainian person is the one who has the

balls to fight any exploitation.

Blood purity by itself gives you nothing, since in Ukraine, the capital

isn’t given to you by the right of birth after having been accumulated

by native-born families for centuries.

Your ancestors might have been princes or hetmans, but all it gives you

is a confidence boost in role-playing games. Descendance from cossacks

or from rebels (uprising peasants) has much more respect, and even that

is among only those few people for whom your origin has any value. One

who takes pride in their origin is one who has done nothing to be proud

of.

Thus, glorifying the role of your origin, you gather around yourself

some not very educated and not quite hard-working people, i.e. all those

who would easily switch to a group where origin is rewarded with many

more narcissism points. For example, to a group of admirers of the USSR

or the russkiy mir.

Among the mass of admirers of the USSR and Russian imperialism, you

won’t find a drive to education or personality-matching work–generally,

these people are sloths bitter at the entire world, who believe they

deserve to be masters just because of how refined and handsome they are.

Ukraine is the Motherland of rebels and insurgents, of people from the

grassroots, who have got little but their striving for justice and their

veins filled with courage to fight for freedom and dignity. Nobody cares

about noble pedigrees, since they have no political or financial

meaning. Only your identity matters–who you are today and for what you

are fighting.

To be a Ukrainian is to fight for freedom and justice, and to maintain

your cultural assets. Anything else is the void–fads and bullshit jobs

that feed power to the “Great-Russian” or Soviet ressentiments. A

fighter for national purity will only end up in cahoots with the enemy

coming to destroy our nation.