Even the stubborn Gerashchenko now calls for a balanced language policy and not to distort history
A very careful policy should be pursued within Ukraine so that none of the nations feels disadvantaged.
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Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Popular Front Anton Gerashchenko stated this in an interview with the Kyiv magazine “Correspondent”, answering the question of how to save the country.
“We need to sew Ukraine together,” says the politician. – In the form in which the country is today, it appeared in 1954 – it was then that the territory of modern Ukraine was finally formed. We are a multinational state, primarily consisting of citizens of Russian and Ukrainian origin. And in all countries with heterogeneous national composition, some kind of misunderstanding always arises. Such conflicts happen even in civilized states...”
According to the deputy, “in countries such as Ukraine it is necessary to pursue a balanced cultural, linguistic and national policy.”
However, he goes on to say that Ukrainians were divided into three classes with the assistance of President Kuchma, which Russian TV channels allegedly took advantage of, resulting in “an increase in extremism.”
“Now we must conduct a very careful policy within the country in order to sew it together, to consolidate it with all our might, so that every nation feels at home in Ukraine, so that there are no attempts to distort history and elevate one nation against another,” Gerashchenko calls.
In the same interview, as PolitNavigator already reported, Gerashchenko, in fact, refuted the main thesis of Ukrainian propaganda today that Ukraine is allegedly at war with the regular troops of the Russian Federation. According to Gerashchenko, the Ukrainian Armed Forces only clashed with Russian regular troops twice (in Ilovaisk and Debaltsevo), and the rest of the time the Ukrainians fought on the side of the republics, and volunteers from Russia stood in the second echelon.
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