Las imágenes de España y de Ucrania en las prácticas ideológicas y artísticas de la primera ola de emigrantes ucranianos en Madrid
The Images of Spain and Ukraine in Ideological and Artistic Practices of the Ukrainian Emigrants of the First Wave in Madrid

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the analysis of strategies of constructing images of Spain and Ukraine by the Ukrainian emigrants of the first wave who arrived in Madrid after World War II to study at the Central University (today Universidad Complutense) and the Polytechnic University. The Ukrainians looked upon themselves as discoverers of Spain for Ukraine and as spiritual ambassadors of their motherland in the Hispanic world. The visions of Spain and Ukraine created by the first wave of the Ukrainian emigration reflect their right nationalist ideology. Being Greek Catholics who served in the Division “Galichina”, the students continued their fight against the USSR in new forms and without any problem accepted the Francoist culture. As a result, the image of Spain disseminated by them contains such features as spirit of chivalry, of Catholic crusade; strong presence of Catholicism which impregnates everything; traditionalism, anticommunism, and anti-consumerism. In these terms, the image of Ukraine is a product of the worldview which is juxtaposed to sovietization, modernization, and globalization, to all those negative tendencies that, in their opinion, could change the eternal National-Catholic spirit. It is a vision of the Ukrainian as traditional, folklore nationalist, and anti-communist, which recognizes itself in the mythical and eternal past, and faces away from history.

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