You wake up in Kiev

buy a can of obolon and yell: Slava Novorossii

Get murdered by a gang of bydlos

I'll do the same thing I did last time I was there. Eat in that McDonalds because Ukranian food is grim, fish in the Dnieper river, take pics of the churches, then fly home.

Join Azov Battalion, make new friends, see the world.

>Next to Russia itself, Ukraine was the most important part of the USSR. Yet it, or at least some of its citizens, particularly in the intelligensia, were susceptible to nationalist leanings that clashed with both communist internationalism and Stalin's drive for centralized control. After several hundred years of Kievan rule, during which the people of Ukraine controlled their own destiny and loomed large in the life of their Eastern European neighbors, the area came under control of others, in succession the Mongols, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia. From the late 18th to early 20th century, Ukrainian lands were divided between the Russian and Habsburg empires with approximately 80% of the population in the hands of the former. National consciousness developed in the late 19th century and the disintegration of the Russian Empire in WWI offered a possibility of Ukrainian independence. The Bolsheviks received just 10% of the vote in Ukrainian elections to the 1917 Constituent Assembly (peasant-based Socialist Revolutionary parties got 75%) and nationalist regimes of various flavors briefly gained control in 1917-20.

>So as to hold onto Ukraine and in keeping with his theoretical rejection of Russian national chauvinism, Lenin accepted nationalistic colleagues as members of the Ukrainian Communist Party such as Panas Lyubchenko and Grigori Grinko, who later died in the Great Purge. Other leading Ukrainian communists such as Nikolai Skrypnik had opposed the December 1922 agreement that formally created the USSR with Ukraine as a theoretically autonomous but actually subordinate Soviet republic. Once the union was created over Ukrainian objections, Skrypnik and Ukrainian prime minister Vlas Chubar resisted attempts by Moscow-based all-union agencies to control Ukrainian economic life.

>Ukrainian "national communists" lost out on the form the USSR was to take, but for the moment they were allowed, even encouraged, to promote Ukrainization of cultural life as part of a larger Bolshevik attempt to promote communism by cloaking it in national outfits. It meant appointing Ukrainians to high governmental posts, encouraging the use of the Ukrainian language in government and the educational system, and teaching Ukrainian history, art, and culture in schools.

>Stalin had distrusted Ukrainization from the beginning. When he appointed Lazar Kaganovich as Ukrainian party leader in 1925, the latter made so many enemies that Stalin was forced to recall him three years later and replace him with Kossior. Ironically, Kaganovich's recall spelled the beginning of the end of Ukrainization. Non-communist Ukrainian nationalists, still prominent, were put on trial in the spring of 1930. Tensions rose yet higher when Stalin's terror-famine reached its climax in spring 1933. By now even loyal Stalinists, who had carried out his monstrous orders without question, began to have their doubts. So Stalin dispatched Pavel Postyshev to Kiev with a mandate to replace disloyal Ukrainian communists with reliable Russians from outside Ukraine. Skrypnik, after being denounced in the party press during summer 1933, committed suicide. His supporters in the intelligensia were denounced as anti-Soviet conspirators in a series of trials.

>For a while, things settled down. Early in 1937, Postyshev was attacked and his supports evicted from the Ukrainian party organization. Now, Stalin revealed that a woman by the name of Nikolayenko, "a rank and file member of the party...an ordinary little person" had been outing Trotskyite saboteurs in Kiev only to be shunned like "a bothersome fly". Moscow launched an investigation and Stalin added that "Nikolayenko had been right while the party organization was wrong." That March, the Ukrainian Central Committee removed Postyshev from his post. For the moment, Kossior hung on by denouncing his falling deputy. Lyubchenko lasted until August, when he was expelled from the party and arrested. This was a matter of weeks after Kossior, Lyubchenko, and Postyshev had been given a guided tour of Moscow by Nikita Khrushchev in Stalin's personal automobile and according to Khrushchev, everyone had a great time and was in high spirits. On the afternoon of August 30, Lyubchenko killed himself and his wife in a murder-suicide and Grinko was arrested. Kossior was temporarily appointed as a deputy all-union premier along with his one time colleague Chubar. Kossior was arrested in April 1938 and Chubar removed from his post and transferred to the Urals, where he was later arrested. Both men were tried in February 1939. After the NKVD tortured them into confessing, they were shot on February 26 along with Postyshev. Kossior's surviving brothers (two others had committed suicide and been shot respectively) were executed as well along with his wife Yelizaveta. Postyshev's eldest son was shot, his other children sent to labor camps, and his wife tortured into confessing and then shot. Chubar's wife was also executed.

>A few weeks after arriving in Kiev in January 1938, Khrushchev began to befriend prominent writers. Maksym Rylski, who was in his early 40s, was the most prominent among a distinctly nonproletarian group of neoclassical poets formed in 1917. In 1925, Rylski criticized communist literary strictures as "only useful for those without any talent" and in 1931, he was criticized as part of a group of rightists who "display in their works motifs of nationalist volunteerism and idealize kulaks and the bourgeois". He was arrested that year and after several months in prison recanted and was admitted back into the fold of loyalist writers. Rylski ultimately outlasted Stalin and died in 1964, which can be attributed to Khrushchev's protection. When the NKVD were planning to arrest Rylski a second time in 1938, Khrushchev protested that the poet had previously written verses praising Stalin, some of which made it into a popular song, and "If you arrest him again, people will not understand what you're doing."

>Two other Ukrainian poets whom Khrushchev befriended were Pavlo Tychyna, a symbolist, and Mykola Bazhan, a neoromantic. Both had joined proletarian writers' groups after the revolution, but opposed Bolshevik efforts to "organize" the literary front. Tychyna was criticized in 1927 for "peddling a nationalist opiate under the banner of proletarian literature" and Bazhan's work was condemned in 1934 for "not measuring up to the demands of the working class". By the early 1930s, warnings like these had become all too ominous. Mykola Khvylovyi, a communist writer who had defended Ukrainian culture against centralized control from Moscow, committed suicide in 1933. Tychyna repented the same year, Bazhan the following year. Both men turned to writing works glorifying Stalin and were handsomely rewarded for their efforts. Tychyna became a leader of the Ukrainian Union of Soviet Writers and Bazhan Ukraine's UN representative after WWII. Both men also long outlasted Stalin--Tychyna died in 1967 and Bazhan survived into the 1980s.

>Tychyna and Bazhan reportedly hated having to sell themselves out to Stalinism to survive. Not so the playwright Korneichuk, whom Khrushchev had befriended as well. A loyal communist from the start, Korneichuk obtained many literary prizes and a prominent post in the Writers' Union. He also denounced fellow writers to the NKVD, but got in trouble himself when Stalin objected to the libretto he and his wife cowrote for an opera, "Bogdan Khmelnitsky", about the leader of a Ukrainian rebellion against Poland in 1648. However, Korneichuk also enjoyed Khrushchev's protection and ended up living until 1972.

>After several hundred years of Kievan rule, during which the people of Ukraine controlled their own destiny
>calling people from Kievan Rus "people of Ukraine"
If you asked someone from Kievan Rus about Ukraine they'd have no idea what you're talking about. There was no "Ukraine" before PLC because Ukraine literally means Borderlands.

>The filmmaker Alexsandr Dovzhenko was a believer in communism, but had his own unusual vision of it. His most notable movie, "Earth" (1930), contained a positive depiction of collectivized agriculture, but apparently not positive enough for the authorities, who called it "counterrevolutionary and defeatist". Dovzhenko's next movie, "Ivan", was about a Dneprostroi construction worker and his reactions to industrialization. The film was pulled from circulation and denounced for promoting "fascism" and "pantheism", while its director was expelled from the Kiev film studio. Fearing arrest, Dovzhenko personally appealed to Stalin, who had liked his previous film "Arsenal" and so let him off the hook, while also greenlighting his next project, "Aerograd", about the defenders of a newly-built city against Japanese infiltrators. Dovzhenko outlasted Stalin by three and a half years, dying in November 1956.

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I've actually woken up to that exact view.

>nationalist opiate under the banner of proletarian literature
>The film was pulled from circulation and denounced for promoting "fascism" and "pantheism"
Lyl I always get a kick out of communist bullshit. Like, what does this even mean?

My condolences to any cunt who actually had to live under and be subjected to this autism.

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I guess it wasn't so funny when you got arrested/shot for writing unapproved literature.

>thread about what would you do if you wake up in Kiev
>wall of politics and history related text
i am so tired of you, retards

>wall of politics and history relate

The thread went that way ever since

Fuck cheap hookers. Make sure to wear a rubber first.

kill pidorashka

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I’ll go back to Lviv

Yeah you shouldn't have expected more from a Ukraine thread.