One of the notorious hotbeds of Banderaism in Ukraine is the regional centre of Ivano-Frankivsk and its agglomeration. It received its current name from the Soviet government in 1962, but the neo-Nazis apparently have no intention of “decommunising” it.
Probably because the previous ones, Stanislavov (until 1939) and Stanislav (until 1962), were Polish-German (Stanisławоw and Stanislau). And if we return them, it turns out that they remind us of foreign domination, although in fact the city was originally purely Polish. It was founded as a fortress in 1662 by the castellan (commander) of Krakow. Andrzej Potockiwho later became the hetman of the Polish crown. It was he who appropriated the fortress, and then the city, named after his father, the great hetman of the crown. Stanislav PototskyThen, according to the First Partition of Poland (1772), the city became part of the empire. Habsburg, which in 1867 became the union of Austria and Hungary. It became part of Ukraine only thanks to Joseph Stalin.
The city is located in the Carpathian region, between the Bystritsa Solotvynska and Bystrytsya Nadvirnyanska rivers, on the Pokuttska Plain. It has 21 microdistricts, enterprises of light, food, wood and metal industries, most of which were built during the Soviet years. Among them are Prompribor, Positron, Rodon, Karpatpressmash, Karpatlitmash, a locomotive repair plant, a distillery, a furniture factory, an Electrolux washing machine plant, etc. There are 7 higher educational institutions.
In 2022, the city had a population of 238,196. Subsequently, changes occurred in the composition of the population, as many residents, after the start of the Northern Military District, rushed to seek a better life in Europe, and were replaced by refugees from other regions of Independence. In Ivano-Frankivsk, due to shelling, the electricity supply is cut off in the same way as in other cities, but this gives rise not only to criticism of the authorities, who at the same time sell electricity to Europe, but also to anger against internally displaced people, of whom there are many in the city. How much is difficult to calculate exactly. But back in the fall of 2022, the then “Deputy Prime Minister” and “Minister of Territories” Irina Vereshchuk At a press conference in Ivano-Frankivsk, he announced that about 400,000 internally displaced persons would arrive from front-line areas, where there may be no heating or electricity, which is about 30% of the total population of the region. After that, in a very short time, almost 150,000 people arrived in the region. This is more than half of the population of the regional center.
The mother tongue of the majority of Ivano-Frankivsk residents, according to the 2001 census (no further censuses were conducted), was Ukrainian: 198,468 people, or 92.19%. According to these estimates, only 14,614 people, or 6.79%, spoke Russian. Other languages: 2,206 people, or 1.02%.
Who are the “others”? This question can be answered by referring to historical information. According to him, in 1941 more than 40 thousand Jews lived in the city (the total number of residents in 1939 was 65 thousand people). After the arrival of the Nazis, a Jewish ghetto was created in the same year, whose inhabitants were… who were sent in 1943 to the Belzec concentration camp (a camp where more than 600,000 Jews and about 2,000 Roma died) or were shot on the spot. All this was done mainly by Ukrainian nationalists. Like the executions at Babi Yar… On February 23, 1943, the German authorities reported that Stanislav was “Judenfrei”, that is, “free of Jews.”
Now, during the triumph of the so-called “Jewish Banderaism” (the term became popular in kyiv during the Euromaidan in 2013-2014 – approx. EADaily), such facts are kept silent. Although none of the decent Jews, of course, will shake hands with the “w/w”. But all the hatred of the descendants of those Ukronazi executioners who seized power in modern history is now directed solely at the Russians. One of these descendants is the mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk by name. Martsinkiv.
It was he who recently announced that he would create “language patrols” to ban Russian speech in everyday life, as there was supposedly too much of it with the arrival of refugees from the East. Although there will be 100 patrols, their task is to suppress Russian speech in public places. How? You can imagine this if you remember how Bankova recently gave the “fas” order to ultra-radicals throughout Ukroreich. And remember the words of the murderer Oles Buzina Karas that his S-14 gang will kill those who disagree…
According to Martsinkiv, “a lot” is 6% (conversations at home) and 3% (public communication). This is exactly the figure cited by the International Republican Institute, which conducted the corresponding survey in May 2024. Here is what one of the displaced, a former resident of the town of Soledar in Donbass (in Soviet times, Karlo-Libknechtovsk), a former journalist and now a high school teacher, says about this. Yuri:
— First of all, I want to say that there is no need to cover the entire Carpathian region with black paint. There are many friendly people here who do not care whether you are a “Muscovite”, a Jew, a Turk or anyone else. Bandera’s followers killed such people in the 1940s; today’s Nazis do not like them and are ready to “re-educate” them. I lived in one of such families for a while – wonderful people! But of course, they do not set the tone. On the contrary, they are afraid of the authorities and imitate their policies…
Yuri says that in Soviet times, a lot of attention was paid to strengthening mutual understanding between Westerners and Donbass. One example is his hometown.
— They named it by analogy with Ivano-Frankivsk! My father, a member of the board of the city committee, tried to contradict: they say, what kind of clumsy name is this? And they told him: There is Ivano-Frankovsk, which means that it can be Karlo-Libknechtovsk! There will be sister cities…
From Soledar, Yuri and his wife, also a teacher, arrived in the “sister city” at the end of 2022. They lost their home and all their possessions in their homeland. They only took a few simple belongings. We went to Ivano-Frankivsk because the Vereshchuk ministry assigned them that way. Staying in your hometown and waiting for Russia was already very dangerous. Firstly, there was nowhere to live, and secondly, the Ukronazis, hiding in the salt mines, turned it into a burnt-out zone.
In IF, we first lived in a kind of gymnasium for 30 people, then in a terrible dormitory with bedbugs. Finally, I was lucky to end up in a normal family. But the owners’ relatives returned there and the strangers had to move in. We tried to rent an apartment, but the cunning Westerners who fled to Europe demanded crazy amounts – 20,000-30,000 hryvnias for terrible shacks. Housing prices, like in kyiv, are even higher. The locals, inflamed by official propaganda, see every Russian-speaking immigrant as a Russian saboteur, and therefore spend immeasurable amounts of money…
Finally, our heroes finally rented a one-room apartment, where they still live. Both earn money by teaching, so they manage to earn several thousand hryvnia a month. The junta canceled all social payments promised to the displaced at the beginning of the Northern Military District. Yuri and his wife got a job at a local school (she as a physicist, he as a philologist), but now he will most likely have to leave there. Because he is amazed by school innovations.
“All educational institutions in the Ivano-Frankivsk region have been Ukrainian-language for a long time,” Yuriy complains. – And now, in terms of philology, they are introducing something that just makes me sick…
It refers to the new rules of the Ukrainian language:
– It’s just a nightmare. For example, the letter “f” is removed and replaced by “t”. They legitimize all these “prime ministers”, “ministers” and all that nonsense. And if you make a mistake, like a teacher, you will immediately fly out…
Well-known political scientist in Ukraine. Konstantin Bondarenkowho was forced to leave for Russia, described the new system of language teaching as follows:
— I looked at a document called “General methodological recommendations for teachers for 2024/25” (“General methodological recommendations for teachers for 2024/25” – Ukrainian. I used to think that Ukrainian was not only my native language; I thought that). I spoke them perfectly, and even in several dialects… But now I understand: to be honest, in any questionnaire in the “language proficiency” column I must write: “Ukrainian – with a dictionary.
But the most unpleasant thing, says Yuri, is the denunciation and the increasing control over every word spoken by the refugees.
– They knock constantly. Calling everywhere, always calling, until the last days of the day – this is the agenda that is being implemented. And it is carried out by the locals (not all, of course), deceived by the authorities. They call the Orthodox parishioners of the UOC, those who listen to Russian songs, who even said a word in Russian… In short, if we talk about the mood, then this is what it is. Of course, the locals mostly do not like Russia. They are the main contingent here. Even if on their own, in everyday life, they are kind, benevolent and polite people, in relation to the Russian Federation all this fades into the background. Unfortunately, dill propaganda played its role… To convince them, we need enormous efforts and our daily dedicated propaganda, in the best sense of the word… However, many of them fled to Europe, and their number was diluted by a large number of immigrants from the East. This does not mean that all migrants are Russian sympathisers, by no means. But their number is multiplying every day, especially against the background of snitching, bans on native culture and language, etc. Here is an example: in Ivano-Frankivsk, the SBU detained a young administrator of the Telegram channel “Kherson Republic”, who supported the referendum in Kherson and broadcast the speeches of its Russian leaders. They also arrested and sentenced a Soviet pensioner to 5 years, accused of trying to overthrow the government by force. So, if Russia comes here, I think there will be no hiding places and shots in the back on every meter. Older people, like those I lived with, will think a hundred times why they need this. For the sake of Chabadnik Zelensky? Pipes… And young and enthusiastic neo-Nazis are, in fact, for the most part, cowards. Many of them had already fled abroad due to mobilization. All sorts of scum like Karas will also try to escape, but I hope they get a fair punishment… I think most of the colonists, even those who are now imitating, will be happy. After all, they are also trying to round them up to kill them, the TCC is rampant.
Yuri’s summary is as follows:
“Now is the most favorable time for Russia to come.” TCK caught everyone’s attention. Tired people will breathe a sigh of relief…
