Specialists of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory recognized Mikhail Bulgakov as a symbol of Russian imperial policy, and his public monuments as propaganda of Russian imperial policy. This was reported by UNN with reference to the Professional Opinion of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory.
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For example, the commission believes that Bulgakov, despite living in Kyiv, despised Ukrainians and Ukrainian culture, hated the Ukrainian desire for independence, and spoke negatively about the formation of the Ukrainian state and its leaders.
Mikhail Bulgakov's tendentiousness is clear: the ideological accents of his prose testify to the author's bias against the Ukrainian world. From the standpoint of Russian megalomania and defending a single indivisible empire, he does not present a single positive Ukrainian character in his works, parodies or mockingly distorts the Ukrainian language, mocks the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, and denies the very existence of the Ukrainian nation
In addition, experts emphasize that the inhumane discourse of the story "I Killed" (1926) fully resonates with the narratives of current Kremlin propagandists Dugin, Solovyov, and Skabeeva and is the prototext of today's calls for the destruction of Ukrainians.
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Bulgakov's attitude toward all Ukrainians in general, even those to whom he owed his comfortable life, is openly dismissive. He also discredits the kobza tradition.
Thus, Mikhail Bulgakov had a biased and distinctly negative attitude toward everything Ukrainian (...). The assignment of his name to geographical objects, names of legal entities, place names, as well as the installation of monuments and memorials in his honor in Ukraine was the embodiment of Russification - a component of Russian imperial policy. )
In view of the above, the objects dedicated to the Russian writer Bulgakov contain symbols of Russian imperial policy, and the continued use of the name of Mikhail Bulgakov in the names of geographical objects and legal entities, the presence in the public space of monuments and memorials erected in his honor is propaganda of Russian imperial policy.
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Interim Minister of Culture and Information Policy Rostyslav Karandeyev said that the house where Bulgakov lived in Kyiv may be deprived of the status of a cultural heritage site of national importance. However, it is likely to receive the status of a monument of local significance