Ukraine Is Part of European Civilization (28.11.2024)
A video dispute of Vitaliy Dribnytsia with a pro-Russian interlocutor over whether Ukraine is part of European civilization. The historian takes apart the “Bandera-Nazi” label, explains that a slogan has meaning only in a concrete situation, and recalls that “Glory to Russia” was the official slogan of a real Russian Fascist Party that operated in Manchukuo in the 1930s. A source for the article on whether the OUN was a fascist movement.
Key moments
- 01:20 "Bandera was not a Nazi": a slogan has meaning in a concrete situation, not in the abstract
- 02:28 "Glory to Russia" — the official slogan of the Russian Fascist Party in Manchukuo (1930s)
- 05:50 What civilization is: the positivist and the civilizational (Toynbee) approaches
- 09:44 Ukraine as the eastern outpost of European Christian civilization, between three civilizations