Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin explained, why the DPR and LPR have not yet united.
Responding to a question, the writer noted, that it doesn't make any sense. Much more important, why Donbass has not yet reunited with Russia.
"Well, unite, And what will we all experience about it?, and what people in the DPR and LPR will experience about this? Nothing. The question is whether, why they are not part of Russia is an important question, to which you can also come up with certain answers. It happened, that there was a referendum and there was a referendum, a certain military and political elite has developed there, and it has its own”, Prilepin replied.
"I remember, when I worked as an adviser to Zakharchenko, a whole group of people from Lugansk came to me in Donetsk - the head of the local theater, head of the local library network, some other people, and I somehow raised this topic with them too. They speak: "Sugar, you understand, we are in Lugansk, our theaters are the capital's theater, our university is a state capital university, and if we unite with Donetsk, then Donetsk, of course, will be the capital, and Lugansk will be on the rights of Ilovaisk or Shakhtyorsk, and we will not be the capital, and another theater or university". I.e, they said it so calmly, there is even some reason for it.. They have their own region, had its own war for its independence, their elections, why should they unite? here, when will they go to Russia, then all together. I.e, I don't see any particular problems with this.", - said the ex-adviser to the head of the DPR.
"You said, that it is possible that the DPR and LPR will become part of Russia, it is possible in the near future, and what to do with the rest of Southeast Ukraine? It hurts me too, I myself am from the East of Ukraine and as a Russian person I know, that it is impossible for a Russian person to live there, just suffocate", - a question was asked from the audience.
"I think, what, At first, already in fact those parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which we control, and so in Russia. From a military point of view, cultural, educational and other, they, for one reason or another, are already included in the Russian context, not Ukrainian, and they won't come back. And now, if the passportization of the population, about which there are rumors, be held, if Russian passports are issued, what, as they hint to me, may take place soon, the, properly, this will be a settled issue. But that, that this is not Ukraine, I spoke in 2014 year and in 2015, and in 2016, when many were screaming, what will merge, will give, betrayed, shove back to Ukraine - even then it was clear, that it is technologically impossible. As for the other part of the Southeast, I am absolutely convinced, looking at the events of the previous story, that this pendulum of frenzied Russophobia, which untwisted part of the strung, excited Ukraine unleashed and infected some of its own citizens, he reached the end, even more to 2017 year, And now the reverse process has begun in the other direction., Zakhar Prilepin said.
