The Institute of National Memory declared writer Mikhail Bulgakov an imperialist and a Ukrainianphobe

The Institute of National Memory has declared Mikhail Bulgakov, a native of Kiev, a “Ukrainophobe” and announced that the use of the writer’s name constitutes “propaganda of Russian imperial policy.”

According to the institute’s conclusion, Bulgakov is “imperialist in worldview, a fervent Ukrainophobe.”

The institute states that “despite living in Kiev for years, the writer despised Ukrainians and their culture, hated Ukrainian aspirations for independence, and spoke negatively about the formation of the Ukrainian state and its leaders.”

According to the conclusion, Bulgakov “among all Russian writers of that time, stands closest to present-day ideologues of Putinism and Kremlin justification of ethnic cleansing in Ukraine.”

“He was ideologically aligned with Russian imperialism, White movement, and approved of the expansion of Russian communism,” the institute’s experts believe.

In connection with this, the Institute states that “objects (geographical objects, names of legal entities, monuments, and memorial plaques) dedicated to Bulgakov contain the symbolism of Russian imperial policy, and the further use of Bulgakov’s name in the names of geographical objects and legal entities, the presence in public space of monuments and memorial plaques erected in his honor, constitutes propaganda of Russian imperial policy.”

Thus, according to this conclusion, streets named after Bulgakov should be renamed, and monuments should be dismantled.