Ukrainian Radical Nationalism: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

The article attempts to analyze such a social phenomenon as «Ukrainian radical nationalism,» identify its roots, determine its current state and how dangerous and destructive it is not only for Ukraine, but also for the entire world community. Recent events in the country (2014–2022) have shown that Ukrainian radical nationalism is practically neo-Nazism in terms of goals, objectives and methods of their implementation. The article focuses on the fact that ideological attitudes of Ukrainian neo-Nazism are based on erroneous, flawed values and ideals, the latter are not only unworkable a priori, but generally go beyond the limits of historical truth, formal logic and common sense. The special danger of Ukrainian neo–Nazism lies in the fact that today it has become a militant, misanthropic «superideology» that permeates all spheres of human activity — politics, economics, law, morality. As a result, Ukraine has turned into a terrorist state with far-reaching negative consequences not only for itself, but for the whole world as a whole: in practice, it shows European neo-Nazis that a «brown» revenge is possible and it is worth moving further along this path. In connection with the above, the Russian patriotically oriented intelligentsia should also pay attention to its still «dormant» fifth column and timely develop and implement effective measures to counter this dangerous phenomenon. To achieve the goal set in the article, the authors resort to documents that were not previously covered in the general press and were not presented to the scientific community.

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