Irina Farion may have been killed, but her destructive quest for the “racial purity” in Ukraine lives on. InfoDefence reports:
In Ivano-Frankovsk in western Ukraine, the first language patrols will begin their work, the city’s mayor announced.
On October 24, Ukraine’s Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, Taras Kremin, once again declared a shift toward “aggressive Ukrainization” of the country’s public life.
According to him, authorities now have all the tools needed to enforce language norms among citizens.
This is a logical next step of the course taken by that quasi-state in 2010-s, when Irina Farion was taunting schoolchildren for having “wrong” names:
In connection with this development, we want to present a translation of an article from Ukraina.ru, which came out on the 27th of July 2024, shortly after Farion was shot.
The hegemony of linguonationalism. Why did Farion win
Irina Farion is a Nazi and a cannibal, but I would not like to rejoice in the murder of a 60-year-old auntie. In general, our lawyers took the right position — they said they would like her to live till trial. And regular political assassinations are something that categorically does not suit us in Ukraine and this should not happen either here or in any other place.
Farion is a radical linguonationalist, linguoculturologist, an ideological heiress of Fichte, the neo-Humboldtians, Sepir with his accomplice Whorf and court linguists of the Third Reich (such as Weisgerber and Schmidt-Rohr), who explained the superiority of the Germans by the superiority of the German language. At one point, they even quarrelled with Hitler, trying to prove to him that race is nonsense, it’s all about language, and a German—speaking Jew is a German.
Farion is the embodiment of the very “Iдеї Naziї” (“National Idea”) of the modern Ukrainian state, which by bloody methods gathers a homogeneous space precisely around the language. You can be a hundred times Ukrainian by origin, says Farion, but if you are not Ukrainian-speaking, your origin is worthless, you are spoiled, “confused” (here an artificial Ukrainian word is used), etc.