DISINFO: Ukraine is turning into neo-feudal state, ruled from the outside
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: sputnik.by ( archived) *
  • Date of publication: October 10, 2019
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Countries / regions discussed: Ukraine

DISINFO: Ukraine is turning into neo-feudal state, ruled from the outside

SUMMARY

Ukraine is increasingly legitimizing neo-feudalism. The land market will create regional landowners, who will become nobles with serfs and titles. Central overlords will be located outside Ukraine. Therefore Ukraine will return in the situation similar to periods in Polish history when the nobles had rather wide competences and the king did not have real power.

RESPONSE

This is a recurrent narrative aimed to discredit Ukrainian statehood and to draw imminently negative consequences of Ukraine's integration with the EU.

See earlier disinformation cases alleging that Zelenskyy has neither army nor police, he is surrounded by corrupted predators, post-Soviet countries are feudal principalities governed by the West, and that the idea of Ukraine is based on a mythologised lie.

Furthermore, the II Rzeczpospolita was not a monarchy. There was no king who could have no power.

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