Upon organisers’ invitation, our Association’s expert Borys Babin took part in Petryshyn Memorial Lecture of Harvard University “What Ukraine Teaches Us About Nationalism — and About Democracy”.
Lecture was held by John Connelly, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History, University of California, Berkeley. Lecture was moderated by Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.
Concept of John Connelly is that the Ukrainian nation comprises men and women who have risen against tyranny and for the sake of popular sovereignty. Lecturer proposed own ideas on querstions, what can Ukraine teach us about how nations come together, and does democracy require nationalism or are the two forces allegedly incompatible.
In own comment to lecture Professor Babin stressed that, as it is well-known, Russia names the goal of its aggression against Ukraine as so-called “denazification” and that Russia names any feature of Ukrainian identity as alleged “nazism” also.
Dr. Babin pointed on UN GA Resolutions 77/204 of 2022, 78/190 of 2023, and 79/160 of 2024, amedned by the same article 4, after our Associaiton’s activities in UN, that stressed on condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
In those resolutions’ common article Assembly “noted with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.”
So ARC’s expert initiated discussion, including the Crimea issues, on such examples of Russian imperialism as a challenge to Ukrainian national existence and of the Russian genocidal policies against Ukraine, as alleged “anti-Nazist” ones. Relevant expert activities of our Association to expose Russian Nazism will be continued.
