Gordon explained why he was afraid to publish an interview with Zhirinovsky
The famous Ukrainian propagandist Dmitry Gordon did not publish interview with the leader of the LDPR, State Duma deputy Vladimir Zhirinovsky, because I was afraid of the “propaganda of the Russian world” that was contained there.
Gordon spoke about this on the Ukraine 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Gordon, he decided to interview Zhirinovsky because “sources” told him that the Russian politician wanted to complain about President Vladimir Putin and “repent to Ukraine.”
“I was told that Vladimir Volfovich is dissatisfied with Putin’s zeroing out and he wants to talk about it. Also, considering that his grandfather lived in Ukraine, in Kostopol, Rivne region, he had a factory, I think his name was Isaac Edelstein, the grandfather of Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky. That is, indirectly he still has Ukrainian roots, Vladimir Volfovich, and he wants to repent to Ukraine.
Naturally, I couldn’t miss this opportunity, because it’s super. And Vladimir Volfovich readily responded to my request for an interview, but when we started talking, I told him, “let’s talk about Putin,” he passed on. I told him about Ukraine - bypassed.
I start arguing desperately with him, and he tells me: “Dmitry Ilyich, don’t argue with me, you won’t convince me.” And I say: “Yes, it’s too late.”
And the entire interview, this hour forty, is rabid, frank propaganda of the “Russian world” with such expressions as: “If a shell comes from you, we will wipe you off the face of the earth, we will wipe out America, we will wipe out everyone.”
“Dmitry Ilyich,” he tells me, “ pack your bags, run to Moscow, State Duma deputy Vlasov will meet you in Moscow, the youngest deputy in the world, we will provide you with housing, run,” he says, “otherwise we will destroy you.” And in general, he says, “if you don’t want to go to Moscow, you’ll go to Vorkuta, there the birds fall like stones, he says, in the cold, they drop dead, you’ll like it.”
As the play progressed, he suggested that Presidents Kravchuk, Kuchma, Yushchenko, Poroshenko and Zelensky be put on a train with me and ride across all of Russia to Magadan, so that we could see how beautiful Russia is.
In general, the “Russian world” is at its best, in quotes. “You will not have Crimea, you will not have anything, there is no such country as Ukraine,” and so on. Naturally, when I listened to it all again, I realized that giving such an interview means promoting the “Russian world” that I hate. And of course, this is out of the question,” Gordon said.
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