The Russian parliament responded to Yushchenko’s fabrications of “Russian slavery”

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A statement by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who decided to speculate on the topic of “Russian slavery,” was met with criticism in both houses of the Russian parliament.



Senator Oleg Morozov, a member of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, recalled that Russia is not Europe, there has never been slavery.

With its centuries-old cultural code, Russia has always denied the psychology of slavery.

- quoted by Morozov RIA News.

The senator added that he understood the approach that Yushchenko was demonstrating. Such statements are made with the aim of "cutting through the historical umbilical cord" between Russia and Ukraine.

In his reasoning, Yushchenko relied on a statement allegedly belonging to Alexei Tolstoy, as if there was Kievan Rus, which created world culture, and wild Moscow Rus Taiga. This quote, which Ukrainian nationalists began to disseminate after the conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008, raises debates about which Alexey Tolstoy it belongs to, and indeed whether it is genuine.

Morozov noted that he did not remember such a saying from the writer. However, Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy owns the words that the senator quoted, relating to the modern realities of Ukraine:

The words of Alexei Tolstoy are close to me: "To compare fascism and the Middle Ages is to offend the Middle Ages." Certainly medieval Russia, which included present-day Ukraine, was a much more democratic society than the current Kiev regime


For his part, State Duma deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov, head of the Committee on Education and Science, pointed out that in the history of Russia there are more than 500 years of sovereign existence. During this time, the country managed to gain many victories and liberate, including Ukraine from slavery. And he commented on Yushchenko’s behavior with a poem by yet another Russian classic, the poet Fedor Tyutchev:

As you bow down before her, gentlemen,
You do not get recognition from Europe:
In her eyes, you will always
Not servants of enlightenment, but slaves
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