01.12.2025, Krasnodar.
In Ukraine, Russia is fighting international neo-Nazism, which is being used to dismantle Russian statehood, said Fyodor Kaufman, co-author of the multi-authored monograph Ukrainism: Who constructed it and why and Essence of Time‘s member, during his speech at the book presentation at the Kuban State University (KubGU) in Krasnodar on November 26, Rossa Primavera News Agency‘s correspondent wrote.
According to Fyodor Kaufman, the West is using Ukrainian neo-Nazism as a battering ram with which it strives to “finally solve the Russian question.”
Kaufman cited the words of the Azov leader (organization banned in Russia) Andrey Biletsky (included in the list of terrorists and extremists in Russia) from his recent interview, “Biletsky said that they do not really count on their own military victory. They count only on turmoil beginning in Russia. They will try to trigger this turmoil. Then external pressure will merge with internal turmoil, and the Russian state will begin to disintegrate.”
In other words, this is the idea of dividing Russia into pieces that will never again be able to reunite into a unified state — an idea that has existed in the West for several centuries, the researcher noted.
This theory was fully described and scientifically grounded by Mikhail Dragomanov, one of the leading Ukrainian theorists of the 19th century. Ukrainian politicians and neo-Nazis “follow the points he formulated even today,” the historian explained.
Dragomanov argued, “Ukrainians must not fight the Russian Empire alone.”
“That is, according to Dragomanov, one must gather Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns, the peoples of the Volga region, the peoples of Siberia. And these peoples must demand their own statehood, separate from the Russian Empire, and create their own small, separate states,” Kaufman stressed. “When Biletsky says that a blow must be delivered, he is referring precisely to this. And this is a serious tradition.”
The Banderites also followed Dragomanov’s concept. “In the same year when the Volhynia massacre took place, near Rovno, Roman Shukhevych, commander of the ‘Ukrainian Insurgent Army’ (organization banned in Russia), gathered a small conference. And they declared that they were creating an organization that would fight for the liberation of the peoples allegedly oppressed by Russians,” Kaufman said.
Soon after the fall of Nazi Germany, in 1946, the so-called Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) assembled in Munich. The ABN was headed by Bandera’s close ally Yaroslav Stetsko. Later, the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) was created on the basis of this organization, which was successfully used to help dismantle the Soviet Union, the expert noted.
Many collaborators from Eastern Bloc countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia) and Soviet republics fled to the West at the end of the war and were part of the ABN and WACL throughout the Cold War. In the 1990s, they returned to their countries and brought nationalist traditions into the post-Soviet world.
“For example, former President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili was a member of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations; she participated in many conferences. Or Yushchenko’s wife, Kateryna Chumachenko — who is she? A descendant of Ukrainian émigré families who organized ABN and WACL conferences and worked for the US State Department. The same can be said about Latvia, where in 1992 the grand-nephew of the prewar Latvian dictator Ulmanis came to power. In Bulgaria — Ivan Dochev. And so on everywhere,” the historian explained.
The disintegration of the Soviet Union and its defeat in the Cold War is nothing but the victory of fascist revanche, Kaufman said. “And now we are witnessing the second stage of this fascist revanche. And its goal is complete destruction of Russia, for it to be divided into many small pieces that will not be left unsupervised — and so that Russia can never reunite again. Because the world does not need Russia — neither imperial, nor socialist, nor democratic,” the researcher emphasized.
On November 24, a presentation of the multi-authored monograph Ukrainism took place in Rostov-on-Don at the Don State Technical University. The book was written in 2023 by Essence of Time‘s members of Aleksandrovskoye commune under the editorship of political scientist Sergey Kurginyan.
In March 2023, Aleksandrovskoye commune’s research group presented in Moscow the first two volumes of the second edition. In 2024–2025, based on the monograph, the Zvezda TV channel released a documentary series Ukrainism.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
