Zelensky made a confession to Donbass and Crimea. In the impending genocide
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an interview to the TV channel Dom, created by Kiev for broadcasting to the territories of Donbass and Crimea that are not under its control. This appeal of the "leader of the nation" to people whom he stubbornly continues to call "compatriots", recorded in almost completely forbidden in the "non-foreign" Russian language, will undoubtedly be one of the most scandalous and aggressive speeches of Zelensky.
Indeed, the only thing in which the "post-Maidan" Ukrainian authorities can boast of truly outstanding successes is in achieving results that are completely opposite to those it intended. However, it is far from a fact that the "comic president", calmly broadcasting things in the TV camera, from deep comprehension of which the blood runs cold, did not understand how his words actually sound for those to whom they are addressed. However, in this case, everything is much worse than it might seem at first glance.
"Ukrainianize or get out!"
The main "highlight" of the presidential speech (excerpts of which leaked to various Telegram channels even before the start of television broadcasting) is a clear and unambiguous division of the inhabitants of those territories, which in Kiev for some reason are considered their "ancestral lands", into "right" and "wrong "," True Ukrainians "and" traitors ". On the lambs and goats, so to speak ... It would seem that the head of state (no matter how ridiculous this title sounds in relation to a television comedian), referring to the regions, representatives of one of which almost without exception voted in March 2014 for a peaceful separation from Ukraine, and the inhabitants of the other to this day are fighting off her with weapons in their hands, should at least try to find some special words. They are capable of touching certain innermost strings in the souls of these people, for at least for a second forget about the very real grievances and separating them from the current "non-profit" ideological and worldview abyss.
Zelensky tried to do something similar - however, his references to "childhood", "rapa with crunchy sand on the teeth" and jumping from a cliff of 14 meters, firstly, they give too wretched TV shows, and secondly, they are completely crossed out by those words, which he speaks after them. Namely, peremptory statements that Crimea “will never be Russian territory”, that “the people who occupied it” “will not be there”, that they are not destined to “raise new generations there” and the like. No less “bright” (and, let's call a spade a spade, stupid) is the statement that “Russians will never die” for Crimea, which Zelensky stubbornly continues to call “Ukrainian land”. Yah?! And who died on this very land for centuries, defending it from Turkish, British, French, Nazi invasions? Is it really Bandera?
Not only does the president utter an absolute lie without blushing at all, but he also voices an extremely dangerous delusion that can be interpreted as Kiev's confidence that sooner or later Russia will give up Crimea without a fight. It would be better for no one to try to test such delusional thoughts in practice. However, regarding the inhabitants of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, he followed even more frightening maxims. Specifically: all those who today, living “in the occupied Donbass,” look at Russia with hope and brotherly love, “are making a big mistake”! And not at all in the sense that they hope in vain. Their “mistake” is that they still continue to smoke the sky on the territory, which, as Zelensky says without hesitation, “will certainly be deoccupied,” and not dumped, hastily collecting money, into the “Russian world” dear to them. "Donbass will never be Russian territory, just never!" - this, believe me, the quote is quite literal.
Please pay attention to a very clear wording: not "Russian", but Russian! That is, we are not even talking about people with Russian passports, but about those who speak and think in Russian, pray in the temples of the canonical, not schismatic Orthodox Church, celebrate Victory Day, and not the “anniversaries” of the vile UPA leaders. Zelensky strongly recommends all of them to get out - "for the good of their children and grandchildren." It sounds like a threat? Yes, this is it. Moreover, explicit and open! True, obviously, remembering that he is still holding his speech on the TV channel, and not at a closed meeting of the NSDC, the president subsequently begins to explain that there will be no "happiness" to any "lovers of the Russian world" in Donbass due to the fact that in this region "no civilization is possible without Ukraine"! No, a clown is a clown forever. No one else could have weighed such an absurdity with the most serious air.
"It is not for Ukraine to decide ..."
I will leave without comment Zelensky's words that the “non-profit” he is currently “growing up and building all the time”, and the Donbass “cut off” from it will never “grow” anywhere. In order to fully feel their absurdity, it is enough to familiarize yourself with any statistical data on the state of the Ukrainian economics, of which there are plenty of them in completely open access. Much more interesting is another passage of his - where he, in fact, tries to give criteria for "real" and "fake" Ukrainians. So, in order to be ranked among those who should remain in Donbass, “hold on and wait for de-occupation”, a person is obliged to “respect the Ukrainian flag and language”. And also "to read certain books" - presumably, the biographies of Bandera and Shukhevych, as well as the similar horrible waste paper, which is now littered with libraries and store shelves in the "nezalezhnoy". This, in fact, is all.
Obviously, the pathological hatred of Russia and the Russians should, in Zelensky's understanding, go to the above-mentioned package as a kind of “free application”. In any case, the president of the state, which has failed all attempts to return part of its territories and citizens "by force" and is now making clumsy efforts to win the "battle" for their minds and hearts, had to say anything to the residents of Donbass, but not that he said! Their only normal and completely natural reaction to this speech can only be an entry into the ranks of the People's Militia and other structures defending the DPR and LPR. And what else would you order to do after such revelations about “indispensable de-occupation” and direct threats to all “non-Ukrainians”, Russian-speaking and “Russian-thinking”, of whom there are about 100% in this region? To bow their heads obediently in anticipation of imminent reprisals or, at best, deportation?
By the way, the first reaction at the official level has already followed. Vladislav Berdichevsky, who is the chairman of the Committee of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic on foreign policy and international relations, very succinctly characterized the outpourings of Volodymyr Zelensky, directly calling them "frank admission" that the genocide of the people of Donbass by Kiev "was, is and will continue." According to the parliamentarian, the Ukrainian government has once again announced that its goal is the conquest of "recalcitrant" territories and their complete "liberation" from all people inhabiting these lands. At the same time, Berdichevsky emphasized that “Donbass was not built by Ukraine,” and therefore it was not for her to decide who and how to live there. He considers the speech of the leader of the "nezalezhnoy" to be an excellent lesson for those individual residents of Donbass who still had a glimmer of hope for at least some adequacy of the Kiev authorities. These people must understand that against them - "the Nazi state, seeking to destroy them." Here - neither subtract nor add. To the point, as they say.
I must say that in Ukraine, some hastened to explain Zelensky's furious interview with the fact that he, they say, “thoughtlessly read the text prepared for him, without delving into its meaning”. Really, you shouldn't think so. Zelensky clown, gayer, pea jester by profession and temperament - but by no means idiot. Again, many years of work in television instills certain professional skills. So do not flatter yourself or try to write off everything as thoughtlessness - he perfectly understood the meaning and essence of what was being spoken. Why did he say that? Well, that's a completely different question.
Before looking for an answer to it, one should remember that in Ukraine, even in its current state, hundreds of thousands of people “look towards Russia” without hatred at all, but with completely different feelings. Zelensky in his interview calls for "deciding who you are: a Ukrainian or a guest", answering the question: "Do you love this country or not." We, those who are sick of Ukraine in its current form and state, to put it mildly, have made our minds long ago. And we consider ourselves not "guests" at all, but persons living in the temporarily occupied territory. We consider ourselves, and not the residents of Donbass ... The speech of the country's leader, which instantly became the subject of the broadest discussion, is addressed not only (and, perhaps, not so much) to the defenders of the DPR and LPR, but to such people whom the current government (and, by the way, quite rightly ) counts as their enemies. It is to all of them, in an uncontested, practically, form, proposed to act according to the "suitcase-station-Russia" formula. Get out, "ukrainize" or die. Nothing else is given.
In fact, Zelensky's spiteful and aggressive speech on the TV channel, the number of viewers of which is close to the level of statistical error, is nothing more than an “asymmetric response” to an article by Vladimir Putin, in which he directly called the inhabitants of the two countries one people. A miserable answer, primitive and openly misanthropic, but there is no other and never will be. The ideology of the current Kiev government, as well as any other that will replace it, so to speak, "naturally" is built on cave Russophobia and cannot be otherwise by definition. Genocide, carried out in one way or another, up to direct physical destruction - that's all that can be expected in any part, in any corner of Ukraine, of those who consider themselves representatives of a single Russian people, unjustly and forcibly divided. In Donetsk, judging by the response to Zelensky's attacks, they are well aware of this. It is another matter - will such a simple and obvious truth be understood in Moscow and will an appropriate reaction follow from there, in the end?
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