This pattern repeats endlessly: Nobel Prize–winning biologist Illya Mechnikov, world-renowned artists, writers, and inventors—all relabeled as Russian to feed an empire’s myth. It is cultural theft as deliberate as the looting of museums in occupied Ukrainian cities.Sikorsky was Ukrainian, and his legacy belongs to #Ukraine.The world must see this for what it is: the same imperial mindset that drives Russia’s war—an attempt to erase Ukraine’s existence and replace it with its own false story.
