antagonists uh, well, for example, but in the same lvov, instead of e figures of the e soviet, uh, period, so to speak, yes, and then the streets of the same bandera shukhevych began to appear, that is, uh, the wrong ones did not perpetuate names that have been in lviv from time immemorial. yes, near these streets built up with buildings of the 19th, somewhere even the 18th century, there at 15 and 16. here. uh. well, maybe the very historical center, the tradition was preserved. and here is already slightly on the periphery. this is already very clearly visible, and even then in lvov it was already so even in it was precisely the abolition of russian culture that began in lvov. yes , because we know change lermontov street on jahar street. dudaeva e. why is this so characteristic? because i don't think that the inhabitants of these old cozy lviv quarters had such a desire to live specifically on the street. uh, well, some kind of chechen militant, yes, well, hardly unrelated. this is not very

harmonious for the ukrainian ear there. this name may sound, uh, and so on, but it was done. and, of course, no one thought. what was this street called 100 years ago, there or 200 years ago. yes, uh, that is, there was no harmonious urban environment in this regard. but no, there was a clear goal and not only to take it to sovietskoye, but also a narrow one. well, in odessa you can compare, for example, instead of karl marx street, the name ekaterininsky was returned. that is, this is not even a renaming. but because we, for example, know that deribasovskaya street was also in the first years of soviet power, but the whole world famous deribanskaya. yes, it was also renamed by the bolsheviks there in the twentieth year, in my opinion, in fat. well, after the war. eh, did the soviet government understand? what, well, that's the name of deribasov. yes, it's kind of organic for this place, and it's back. that is, this practice was already in soviet times. we know for sure in leningrad the same things, that is , the old names simply returned, it was returned in the nineties in odessa, this is exactly what happened yes, the same monument. uh, in fact, empress catherine yes , which now takes the beginning of catherine street from this square. together there was a soviet monument to the

potemkinites, they didn’t begin to break it, dump it with a crane shoot down. no, they carefully dismantled it , moved it, uh, towards the entrance of the odessa port, yes, where, in fact, there were certain events associated with the armored track and restored that monument and even directly took the figures from the museum and installed them at five hundred, because part of the figure there, except for the central one, has been preserved. that is, this is the difference in approaches, and it has always been there. but if we look at certain dynamics, we will see that we will call that conditional lvov approach. actually de facto nationalist approach. yes, he was gaining momentum more and more. and now he 's just reached his oppogee. he did not become anything fundamentally new. and what will the ukrainian authorities do when all the streets are renamed, monuments to bendery will be installed everywhere, by the way, is this possible, a total renaming throughout the country? we remember, yes, when it was really soviet time, it means that there were the same monuments. identical

streets obviously these people aspire to it. yes so that in every city you have three monuments to the cooper, we have five, there and so on, there should definitely have been several alleys in every ukrainian. you can also say yes, that is, they are clearly moving in this direction. yes, but they really don't have such a big pantheon. yes, they will eventually run out quickly. and now we are already seeing how new ones are being born, so to speak, e character back in the time of yushchenko already in odessa again paved this road then was uh, so uh, a great friend of ukraine and legkochinsky and historical in odessa polish street, yes, which reflects this is the nationality initially, and the city yes it. so, moreover, parts of this street were renamed in honor of the polish president before the first to attack the senator. uh, kane, of course, given that in the west, so to speak, this is the change of power, notorious. it happens all the time, then there will always be some new prime ministers, new presidents. they will be friends of ukraine that is, it

will be possible to rename the streets lanes, in their honor to erect monuments to them. that's it. i think, that if this trend, at least in some territory, continues, then everything that we are now, perhaps, saying, even with some degree of irony, it is being realized, and in fact, of course, well quite tragic. well, it just really seems absurd at first glance, but the probability is high. thank you very much for such a brilliant story. if i were asked to name three figures typical of ukrainian politics, including historical characters, then almost without hesitation. i would say mazepa grushevsky and kravchuk mazepa began his career at the court of the polish king jan casimir, after an affair with a strange wife, he had to flee to the hetman of the right-bank ukraine doroshenko daroshenko, who swore allegiance to the turks, fought for power with the hetman of the left bank,

the most lovych and lost then mazepa went over to the side of samoilovich, who in at that time he was an ally of the muscovite kingdom and became the second person in the kazakh hierarchy after an unsuccessful trip to the crimea on a denunciation, organized according to one version by mazepa samoilovich himself, was removed. him the place was taken by mazepa and was unusually favored by peter the first, but nevertheless changed him and, having transferred to the service of the swedish king charles 12, one of the historians can say that such transitions from one sesiron to another are normal practice in the 17th-18th centuries, perhaps, but in today's view, such an experience forms, to put it mildly , a contradictory image of mazepa grushevsky, like mazepa, who was included in the gallery of heroes of the struggle for independence, became the head of the first ukrainian

state of the central rada in march 917. at first, the ukrainian people's republic was going to become an autonomy within russia, then it declared its independence in battles with the bolsheviks, the hetman of the skoropad white movement and the polish troops of the upr lasted until november 1920. grushevsky left ukraine for austria back in the nineteenth, and then for about 5 years he negotiated with the bolsheviks about returning to his homeland. in 1924 , grushevsky was allowed to return; he became a professor of history at kiev, the university of academicians of the all-ukrainian academy of sciences. it seems that difficult times of the revolution and the civil war of the 20th century, grushevsky knew how to negotiate and cooperate with various political forces. the same traits are easily captured, both in the political

and personal biography of leonid kravchuk, which makes him a typical ukrainian politician about the controversial figure of the last head of the supreme soviet of the ukrainian ssr and the first president of ukraine, who recently passed away in the story of olga mokhova the first president of ukraine came businessmen and football functionaries, former acting politicians and other public, including all ukrainian ex-presidents with the exception of viktor yanukovych, someone knew kravchuk for a very short time. some have been with him since the days of the ussr, however, about the soviet period of his career at parting. tried not to remember in the comments. after the funeral, it was noted that kravchuk's unique ability to find a common language with a variety of people and political forces, for which he earned the nickname the cunning leaf leonid kravchuk, he had such an art to communicate with everyone

differently. uh, if, for example, it was about presidents, yes, then he was always friends, it didn’t matter. who before that he could oppose this presidential candidate, but as soon as the same kuchma became president, he was immediately next to him leonid kravchuk was from the rivne region, that in the west of ukraine he was the first of his fellow villagers who managed to enter kiev university. he also began his party career before the start of gorbachev's perestroika, he managed to go from the head of the local propaganda department to the second secretary ukrainian central committee, he led the ideology of the communist party of ukraine agha was famous for the fact that he could quote from the memory of the novel the number of quotation vision to us without mistake. well, in time i dogged where it was blowing and instantly became a snap, however, from the ideal to communism in the open. he began to deny exactly before the collapse of the soviet union, when it was already a safe push. according to him , terrible facts and sports archives became,

and the activities of the bolsheviks. however, he did not leave the party, he preferred to fight communism from within the system gradually, replacing communist rhetoric with nationalist rhetoric, when the elections were held the supreme soviet of the ukrainian ussr the last elections, then precisely by agreement with the rulchites. they supported his candidacy in the election of the chairman of the supreme soviet of the ukrainian ussr it was this step that became the springboard for his subsequent election of the president in the presidential elections on december 1, 1991 for kravcha. ka and the votes of more than 19.5 million voters this was a record compared to voting for subsequent ukrainian presidents on the same day in a referendum on the future of the ussr, 90% of the inhabitants of the ussr spoke out for the independence of ukraine kravchuk used this fact as arguments for signing a week later on december 8, 1991, the belovezhskaya fact on the dissolution of the

soviet union to the doctor is one of the main destroyers of the soviet union, this is quite obvious, but the fact is that if the ukrainian leadership had not behaved, then in this way, then yeltsin would not have had trump cards in the fight against gorbachev to behave too in a similar way. this is the main thing that i did in my life, said leonid kravchuk, meaning the dissolution. the ussr, but it was unlikely that he foresaw then, what fate was prepared for the most industrially developed soviet republic, the year that turned out to be from a strategic partnership with fraternal russia then became the hardest years in terms of decline, so to speak, of the national economy, the fall of the economy, inflation jumped to 10.000%. we lost, uh, as a result of such an absolutely chaotic policy. uh, well, almost, i guess. 45 percent in its industry,

kravchuk's management, was accompanied. a number of scandals in august 1993 saw his decree on the creation of a blastco joint-stock company on the basis of the black sea shipping company, a check carried out a year later showed that out of 228 ships, half were in the hands of foreigners, massive non-payment of wages and a total debt of more than 300 million dollars were revealed . even there was a consequence, but not brought to an end. because when you are close to the next presidents, yes, then all sorts of presidents for this closeness, and you fake it and certainly did not give a course to the investigation. kravchuk, the president tried to attract national patriots, mainly from western ukraine, to key government positions by his own mistake. he considered the appointment of leonid kuchma, the then successful director of yuzhumash, as the head of the ukrainian government, a conflict with him, as well as a parliamentary crisis and a powerful miners' strike, led to early presidential elections in 1994, which kravchuk lost his defeat, he recognized, but relations with

did not spoil the winners. he couldn't resist. why because it would be a civil conflict, and the second i resistance. on whom could he rely, who would support him with the name of kravchuk, to the word of a zayadlov fan , the football scam associated with settling a scandal with a bribe, which the leaders of dynamo kiev handed over to the spanish referee for favorable refereeing for the ukrainian team, was soon the main defendants in the football case leonid kravchuk grigory surkis and viktor medvedchuk gathered already in a political project, the social democratic party of ukraine, united, by the way, at about the same time, kravchuk's famous phrase appeared, only dead fools do not change their points of view in 2004 kravchuk calls himself a vip agitator for viktor yanukovych in 2006 heads the wrong bloc, created in opposition to the political power of viktor yushchenko. and in 2010, he becomes the confidant of another contender. even zelensky managed to attract yulia tymoshenko to the highest post of the state

kravchuk to an important audience. activities, appointing him, albeit for a short time, the head of the ukrainian delegation at the minsk talks on the donbass, people so connected. finally, the heavyweights come into play. and we saw literally another chattering there. yes, any attempt to get away from concrete implementation in an interview with our program in september 2020, leonid kravchuk said that it was quite possible to resolve the conflict in the format of the normandy four with the participation of the leaders of russia and germany, france and ukraine, they say, as in ninety the first in belovezhskaya pushcha, when the heads of the three union republics made a decision, not being afraid of responsibility, they kept silent about the truth that the first person they informed that the ussr as a geopolitical reality no longer exists was american president george w. bush. i think that we failed sit down at a round table and agree on a civilized non-principle of a marching country or russia or ukraine or, say, belarus from civilized european norms and

international law, this was the main mistake, from which followed all subsequent ones, did kravchuk then understand that it was from this point that catastrophic processes began for ukraine, so obvious today the question is open, but as a result, maymyshe maymu, as kravchuk himself liked to say that we have what we have olga mokhova anastasia popova valery savelyev is typical, ukraine this is everything we wanted to say. kirill vyshinsky was with you today. good luck to you. the ukrainian military fired again, petrovsky district of donetsk this time and the hurricane multiple launch rocket system, earlier today by the city of belizgradov and large-caliber artillery, see our staff for details.