On Harari and the Ukrainian SSR at the UN (a dialogue with an Israeli) (07.11.2021)

A street dialogue between Vitaliy Dribnytsia and a Russian-speaking interlocutor (a history teacher from Bila Tserkva by profession) who denies the statehood of the Ukrainian SSR and calls it a “quasi-state.” Dribnytsia offers a counterargument about international legal personality: the Ukrainian SSR was a founding member of the UN in 1945, the USSR held three votes in the General Assembly (the USSR + the Ukrainian SSR + the Byelorussian SSR), the signature of the Ukrainian SSR’s representative Manuilsky appears on the UN Charter, and Ukraine itself was elected to the Security Council. The interlocutor cites the dates hesitantly (“‘46–‘47, I may be mistaken”) — corrected in the article. A source for the analysis of the myth that “Ukraine was never a state / was a colony.”