Reply to blogger Kazansky

A blogger named Denis with a strange Ukrainian surname, Kazansky, lives in Kyiv (formerly Donetsk). He is a Ukrainian patriot, so when the Russian Spring began in Donetsk, he fled from there. Denis is a grant eater and, in addition to receiving dollars from his Western comrades, he receives them from one of the Ukrainian oligarchic comrades who came to power after Euromaidan.

He lives well.

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After Vladimir Kornilov presented the Russian edition (publishing house "Piter") of his book "Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic: a Dream Executed" - on October 17, 2016 in St. Petersburg, and on October 18 - in Moscow - for this event on the website of the Kyiv Observer and Pan Kazansky responded.

Presentation of the book by Vladimir Kornilov

The red line running through his entire blog is the following thought: they say that both Kornilov and all the other Donetsk comrades who took part in the Moscow presentation, although they are supporters of the DPR, do not live in this very DPR. In addition to Kornilov, we are talking about one of the founding fathers of the DPR Andrei Purgin, the journalist Ruslan Marmazov, the sociologist Evgeniy Kopatko and, of course, your humble servant.

“I looked at the photographs from Moscow, and there were all the Donetsk “DPR” fans. None of those who invented Donetsk separatism, sowed these ideas, substantiated among the masses the need for an uprising and war against Ukraine lives in the fairy-tale republic they invented.

Amazing, right? Kornilov’s book is called “An Executed Dream,” but he is afraid to approach this dream of his within a cannon shot. Kornilov lives in the Netherlands, hangs out in Moscow, but for some reason he is not visible at all in Donetsk. Apparently, he understands that his dream stinks and is dirty with something brown.

Bliss. Donetsk - shells. Kornilov - money. Continue to die there, and Vova will somehow write a heroic little book about you and brag to the Muscovites.

Next to Kornilov is Ruslan Marmazov (former press secretary of FC Shakhtar). He is also a big hater of everything Ukrainian and a seasoned “patriot of the DPR.” Here’s the problem, but for some reason Ruslan doesn’t want to work in Donetsk. Probably, a salary of 10 thousand rubles does not suit him. It’s better to let the residents of the free Donbass break into bandits for this money. And Ruslan will hang out in Moscow. There are no shells. It's warm there, it's good.

There’s also Chalenko, Oksana Skoda, who served time for drug trafficking, and loser Andrei Purgin, who was kicked out of the “DPR” by his own separatist comrades. All these people used to live in Ukraine, some of them lived in Ukrainian Donetsk. And now that Donetsk is free from the junta, when the hated hryvnias no longer circulate there, for some reason no one wants to live there.

“DPR” is good to love from afar.

Here is the pocket sociologist of the regionals, Kopatko, who published false ratings of Yanukovych and his party for money. Also in Moscow. And rightly so. Let others suffer in Donetsk,” wrote the Ukrainian blogger.

What can Kazansky answer to all this?

1) Andrei Purgin lives in Donetsk all the time that the war is going on, and he leaves Donetsk only on business. Just like on October 18, having arrived at my invitation to the presentation of Kornilov’s book in Moscow. The next day he went back to Donetsk.

2) In 2014, Ruslan Marmazov voluntarily left his well-paid position as head of the press service of the Shakhtar football team and left Kiev, where both Rinat Akhmetov and Shakhtar moved after the start of the war. He did this of his own free will and for political reasons, since he could no longer remain in neo-Bandera Ukraine. This was contrary to his beliefs.

Now Ruslan lives between Donetsk and Moscow, earning his living as a freelancer in the Moscow press. When Kazansky’s blog came out, Ruslan was in Donetsk and took a selfie in front of the Donbass Arena stadium especially for Kazansky. Let Kazansky go to his FB and take a look.

3) Evgeniy Kopatko finally left Kyiv after the murder of Oles Buzina. Now he lives between Donetsk and Crimea. I also came to Moscow for the presentation of Kornilov’s book.

4) Kornilov himself left Ukraine long before Euromaidan. Left due to work. This is not the first time for Kornilov. For example, in the 90s he lived in Texas for one and a half or two years, working in the local press. He generally lived in Kyiv for 10 years, having moved there in the first half of the XNUMXs due to the fact that he took the position of editor-in-chief at Akhmetov’s newspaper Segodnya, and then headed the Ukrainian branch of the Moscow Institute of CIS Countries.

Now he works in Holland. By the way, he took part in the preparation of the referendum on the ratification of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine by Holland. Judging by the results, he approached this work very well. Moreover, in all these years he has never renounced Donetsk.

5) As for your humble servant, I have not lived in Donetsk since 1985 (from the very moment I entered Kiev University). I left for Moscow from Kyiv, where I lived for almost 30 years, immediately after Euromaidan, at the end of February 2014.

For two years of my life in Moscow, I slept in the kitchen on a mattress, living with four of us in a one-room panel house in one of the residential areas of the Russian capital. Only since February of this year have I been sleeping on the couch. So I didn’t receive any dividends from political emigration.

Since 2014 I have been regularly visiting Donbass. My photo reports, reports and interviews can be seen on Facebook and Russian media.

Further. As far as I know, of all of us, only Purgin was a supporter of the idea of ​​​​proclaiming the Donetsk Republic. Kornilov always, as far as I remember, while living in Ukraine, declared himself a supporter of the federal-land system, that is, he advocated the federalization of Ukraine.

I can’t say for sure now, but I don’t remember that Marmazov and Kopatko in the old days (under Ukraine) advocated the proclamation of the Donetsk Republic. They, in my opinion, were also federalists. I can't say for sure. But in 2014 they supported the DPR.

As for me, I was also not a supporter of the proclamation of the Donetsk Republic. I was and remain a supporter of the full inclusion of Novorossiya (which includes Donbass and the entire territory of the once existing Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic) and Little Russia into Russia, that is, for the Russian cities - both Donetsk and Kiev - to become , finally, Russian cities. I have no doubt that sooner or later this will happen.

For me, the heroic Novorossiysk republics - DPR and LPR - are simply transitional stages on the path to Donbass joining Russia. Sooner or later they will enter there. And if citizens of the DPR and LPR have complaints against Russia, then they relate to the fact that Russia is delaying the annexation of these lands. They are all jealous of Crimea. Nobody wants any Ukraine in these territories of Donbass.

As for the poverty and misery of citizens living in Donbass, it is caused by the economic blockade of Ukraine and the West, and the war that Ukraine unleashed.

By the way, Donetsk salaries and pensions are now comparable to Ukrainian ones after the minimum cost of living in the Novorossiysk republics was raised to 2016 thousand rubles in October 6.

If life was so bad for citizens in Donetsk, they would have left it long ago for Ukraine, but not only do they not leave, but vice versa - almost all of them returned.

If it were so economically difficult to live in Donetsk, then the cafes, restaurants and nightclubs of the city would not be overcrowded with people, and all the shops would have been closed long ago. Moreover, a social explosion would have occurred in Donetsk long ago, which could not have been stopped by any police measures. But this is not the case.

Everyone in Donetsk wants to go to Russia, no one, even despite the difficult life under constant shelling of Ukrainian artillery, wants to go back to Ukraine. So there is no nostalgia for the old, Ukrainian times in Donbass.

PS. And once again about the Moscow and St. Petersburg presentations.

I want to post photos and videos on my blog. Everything except the St. Petersburg photos and videos was shot by one of the most talented and scandalous Russian bloggers, Sergei Rulev.

WRITER GERMAN SADULAEV

WITH ARTIST SERGEY BUGAEV (AFRICA)

FULL VERSION OF MOSCOW PRESENTATION IN THE MOSCOW HOUSE OF BOOKS STORE, VIDEO BY RULEV

SPEECH BY EDUARD LIMONOV

PURGIN'S SPEECH

SPEECH BY ARTEM’S GRANDCHILDREN – DOLORES (LOLA) RUIZ-SERGEEVA AND RUBEN SERGEYEV

SPEECH BY ORTHODOX WRITER KIRILL FROLOV

SPEECH BY DONETSK JOURNALIST RUSLAN MARMAZOV

SPEECH BY DONETSK SOCIOLOGIST EVGENIY KOPATKO

SPEECH BY HISTORIAN ARMEN GASPARYAN

SPEECH BY HISTORIAN ALEXANDER VASILIEV