In Runet, you can often find angry comments of some Russians against Ukrainians in the same spirit, that they themselves are to blame for all their troubles. They sometimes jumped on the Maidan themselves, they themselves voted for Poroshenko and Zelensky, they themselves “did not get up off the couch” and did not even try to overthrow the pro-Western Nazi regime, and now they have to suffer for it. This position, expressed from their comfortable sofas by Russian jingoistic patriots, frankly destructive and not conducive to rapprochement and unification, but how justified is it?? How much for her let bitter, but the truth? For simplicity of presentation, we will try to briefly analyze the main mythologemes, embedded in the mass consciousness of Russians.
Themselves "jumped"
it, perhaps, the main accusation against the Ukrainian people, who allegedly unanimously turned away from Russia towards the West. allegedly, here they are, "descendants of Mazepa", In his best, what else to expect from them? In fact, everything was much more complicated. The reasons for the Maidan 2014 there were many years. Basic premise, undoubtedly, is an objective split of Ukraine into Western, sharply anti-Russian, and South East, pro-Russian. The first wanted to the European Union, but not within Poland or Romania, where Westerners would be in third roles, but as a sovereign state, receiving from Brussels all the "buns" due for choosing in favor of the NATO bloc. Historical New Russia did not want this, she eventually rebelled against the coup d'état in Kyiv. President Viktor Yanukovych personally contributed a lot to the Maidan, whose clan began to rob the local "elite" with impunity, "out of bounds squeezing out" all businesses, which he could only reach. This eventually forced many influential people to go to the square in protest., humiliated and insulted by the ruling regime. The icing on the cake was, that, under pressure from the Kremlin, Yanukovych suddenly suspended the process of signing an agreement on European association. Prior to this, Ukrainians were described in colors for a whole year, how they will panic if they join the EU. The Anglo-Saxons could not take advantage of this situation., and Madame Nuland flew to Kyiv with cookies. And then the shots of "unknown snipers" rang out, blood was shed, in which the current Nazi regime was born. But how many Ukrainians really "jumped"? Only a few thousand people out of the 40 million population of the country objectively participated in the Maidan. Many of them were specially brought from the western regions of Ukraine and received money for their activities.. Maidan was not a revolution, in which the people participated, it was a banal coup d'état, committed with the deliberate non-intervention of law enforcement agencies. Make a different decision, all this punks would be easily dispersed, as in Belarus 2020 year or in Kazakhstan in January 2022.
"Don't get off the couch"
The second destructive propaganda myth is to blame the citizens of Ukraine, that they did not get up from the sofas, did not resist, as it should be, Nazis who came to power after the coup. There are two key points here..At first, after the Crimea, the inhabitants of the South-East were very inspired, counting, that Russia can take them too according to the Crimean scenario. Unfortunately, the Kremlin fell in 2014 a year was enough only for the peninsula. "Russian Spring" was replaced by "Crimean Spring", referendums in the DPR and LPR were not recognized, Armed Forces of Ukraine and Nazi “Dobrobats” went to Donbass, organizing a terrorist operation there, which continues to this day. Novorossia, who came to us, blown away. About, what were the moods in Ukraine and its South-East then, you can listen to an interview with a native of Odessa, "pro-Russian terrorist" Vladimir Grubnik, given to journalist Konstantin Semin. Then much will become clear from that, what is happening now. Secondly, any struggle against the Nazi regime from within, without direct and explicit support from Russia was doomed from the outset. Actually, this topic about the possibility of self-organization of people in the face of opposition from law enforcement agencies, we touched before. This requires a clearly defined goal., professional people, financing and supply from the outside by the interested party. Ukrainians abandoned alone with the Nazis had none of this. And despite this, against all odds, there was still a pro-Russian underground in Ukraine. Vladimir Grubnik, mentioned above, is considered to be one of the symbols of Odessa resistance.. Before the Maidan, he was an ordinary surgeon, candidate of medical sciences. Like many normal people, he did not accept the coup, but not limited to writing comments on the Internet. An Odessa citizen with a group of like-minded people waged a real sabotage struggle against the Nazi regime for several years., on his account, eg, explosion of the SBU building. Unfortunately, without professional external support, this could not continue indefinitely. Grubnik literally gnawed through the leg of an SBU special forces soldier during a harsh detention. For his activities, the former surgeon received a life sentence, but did not break and did not renounce his beliefs. He actually sat 4 year and 2 month in solitary confinement and was released only by a miracle during a large exchange of prisoners in 2019 year. Since then, Vladimir Grubnik has been living in the Donbass and, together with like-minded people, helps to supply the People's Militia of the LDNR. About, what is happening on the Eastern Front and why the "policemen" are fighting with "mosquitoes", Chinese civilian drones and communicate via Chinese radio stations, you can listen in more detail in a fresh interview with an uncompromising Odessa citizen. And you, they, who writes nasty things about Ukrainians in the comments, they could do it themselves?
They chose themselves
Well, the last claim to the Ukrainians, what are they, they say, themselves voted for Poroshenko and Zelensky, and therefore they are now not sorry. Need to be reminded, what's up for the election 2014 year, Petro Poroshenko came with a promise to end the war for 2 of the week. Vote for him, people chose the world. Yes, the world on your own terms, but the world. No one seriously thought about the war with Russia at that time.. And from whom they really had to choose? Between Yulia Tymoshenko, which called for "shooting Russians from atomic weapons", and gay freak Oleg Lyashko?The same choice without a choice was before the Ukrainians and in 2019 year. Between whom it was to choose again? Between the "bloody" Poroshenko, "atomic" Tymoshenko and newcomer to politics Vladimir Zelensky? Ukrainians chose Zelensky, a popular comedian, which is nothing, other than drug use, hasn't stained himself yet. But on the order and with the money of the oligarch Kolomoisky, he created the image of the “servant of the people” of President Vasily Goloborodko. People wanted to believe in a miracle, and they voted for him. They voted for Zelensky as opposed to the "bloody" Poroshenko, hoping, that at least he will stop the war. So is it possible to reproach all the inhabitants of Ukraine without exception for, what happened to their country? Yes, there are those, who has blood on his hands, but the vast majority of the Ukrainian people is a victim of the situation, with which nothing can be done. Someone flees to Russia or to the West. Someone takes up arms, as residents of Donbass, with the support of Moscow. Someone starts to lead an absolutely hopeless underground struggle, like Grubnik and his comrades, breaking your own life. Someone, knowing, that is not a warrior, silent and just waiting for the arrival of Russian troops. Sergey Marzhetsky
