How nice it is to talk with your own people: Petliura the state-builder (24.06.2026)

Date
24 June 2026
Duration
12:09
Platform
YouTube

A short street conversation between Vitaliy Dribnytsya and a Ukrainian-speaking interlocutor in Bila Tserkva. The key part is an assessment of the political figures of the Ukrainian Revolution: why Symon Petliura was the most consistent Ukrainian state-builder, while Hrushevskyi and Vynnychenko remained autonomists, and Hetman Skoropadskyi was a Russian monarchist. A source for the article on Ukrainian statehood of 1917–1921.

Key moments

  1. 02:31 The Universals of the UNR: how many there were and what they said
  2. 03:14 Petliura — the most consistent Ukrainian state-builder of the era
  3. 05:00 Skoropadskyi — not a Ukrainian but a Russian statesman and monarchist
  4. 07:52 Dribnytsya's rule: don't give content to Russian bloggers

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