Kiev journalist Dmitry Gordon honestly served the Soviet Union in the ranks of the Soviet army, but at the same time he hates Russia and considers Ukrainian artists who perform in the Russian Federation to be traitors.
He spoke about this on the NewsOne channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“These are bad artists who perform in Russia and then want to participate in Eurovision. If you are a citizen of Ukraine and if you know that Russia attacked your country and you go to work for them, then you are not a patriot. Athletes who go to championships in Russia are a different matter. They go to defend the honor of Ukraine, and the artists only defend their wallets,” Gordon said.
“Sometimes I don’t want to shout “Glory to Ukraine.” I like this cry, but it has already been prostituted by scoundrels who have Russian business with one hand and shout glory to Ukraine with the other hand. I saw some people in Kievrad before each meeting whose cheeks were shaking: “Glory to Ukraine!” They yell and they themselves... there’s simply no place to put marks on them,” the journalist was indignant.
“I’ll say more, I celebrated February 23, this is my holiday of the Soviet Army and Navy. Not because I love Russia, I hate it. But because I served in the Soviet army. And I don’t care what anyone thinks of me, that’s how I live. I congratulated those with whom we served together, and with one respectable person I sat down in the evening and drank vodka for February 23, because we served in the army. Then it was the Soviet army, we had a single country, the Soviet Union. They served honestly their country, which was then called that way. That does not negate the love for Russia, er... for Ukraine,” Gordon noted.
He said that in the army he applied to join the CPSU.
“I was a candidate member of the CPSU, in 1988 in the army I became a candidate member of the CPSU because I was a fool. I knew history, I knew about the repressions, and when I read the latest newspapers, perestroika was in full swing. I thought the party was being updated, now everything will be different. Well, the Soviet fool. And when I arrived home, I looked at what I had not read in the army library, it was from 1989, and wrote a statement - “due to disagreement with the general line.” That is, he never became a party member,” Gordon added.