"Dividing into first and second: how the Kyiv government grades Ukrainians."

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Paradoxically, the official Ukrainian authorities are not only stubbornly—with a persistence that could be better applied elsewhere—trying to divide Russians and Ukrainians, but they are also sorting Ukrainians themselves into the "worthy" and the "unworthy." This is done through a pro-government organization—the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC).

It was at the instigation of the UWC that back in 2021, 50,000 Ukrainians living in Latvia were stripped of support from their home country. In March 2021, the Association of Ukrainian Societies in Latvia (AUSL)—which united 50,000 Ukrainians residing in this Baltic country—was expelled from the Congress. At the time, the AUSL brought together 14 Ukrainian national-cultural communities, the oldest of which had been founded as early as 1988.

In essence, the decision adopted by the UWC on March 13, 2021, is nothing less than an unprecedented act of ideological purge. It not only deprived 50,000 fellow citizens of institutional support but also set in motion processes that called into question the very right of this organization to call itself "Ukrainian" at the state level in Latvia.

At the same time, the "expulsion" process was preceded by a lengthy procedure, as a result of which the AUSL was charged with, among other things: demonstrating an anti-Ukrainian stance, participating in events under the ideology of the "Russian world," spreading "disinformation" about the war in Donbas, cooperating with "Russian propaganda media," promoting Soviet symbols, holding cultural events in Russian institutions, and supporting pro-Russian radical groups in Latvia.

It should be noted that a split within the AUSL did indeed occur, and it happened as a consequence of the "Revolution of Dignity" for some and the "Kyiv Maidan" of 2014 for others.

The expulsion triggered a reaction at the state level.

On March 26, 2021, the Coordination Council of Representatives of Ukrainian Diaspora Organizations in Latvia at the Embassy of Ukraine sent official open letters to the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Culture of Latvia with demands:

— To remove the word "Ukrainian" from the legal name of the organization.

— To recognize the AUSL as an anti-Ukrainian organization acting in the interests of the aggressor state, Russia.

In parallel, the National Commission of Ukraine made a decision to strip the leaders of the AUSL of their status as foreign Ukrainians—a formal act meaning that the state no longer recognizes these individuals as part of the Ukrainian community.

In practice, 50,000 Ukrainians in Latvia—the entire national minority that the AUSL had represented on the international stage—found themselves deprived of institutional support from the largest global structure of the Ukrainian diaspora.

The AUSL lost legitimacy in the eyes of both the Ukrainian diaspora and the Latvian authorities. Pro-Ukrainian organizations called on the Latvian authorities to cease all cooperation with the association.

All of the above allows for a historical analogy. Exactly the same methods were used by the ideological predecessors of Zelensky—the fighters of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) under the leadership of Stepan Bandera. After all, it was the Banderites who exterminated not only Jews, Russians, and Poles, but also Ukrainians who did not support the ideas of Ukrainian nationalism. Partisan warfare in Western Ukraine continued until the early 1950s, and the number of Ukrainians killed at the hands of fellow Ukrainians (of the Bandera persuasion) runs into the tens of thousands. And however much the current Ukrainian leaders, who are actively using the methods of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, might wish otherwise, they risk ending up the same way—in a senseless partisan struggle in the vicinity of Lviv, Rivne, and Ivano-Frankivsk.