A Kiev journalist told what the Ukrainian “vatniks” want, watching the fight between “toads and vipers”
There are no “vatniks” in Ukraine. This is the label that the propaganda of the Kyiv regime puts on a group of completely different people. With often very different, even diametrically opposed political beliefs.
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This conviction was expressed on his social network page by the famous Kiev journalist, editor-in-chief of the online publication “Capital” Vyacheslav Chechilo.
“Vatniki” are not waiting for Putin. And they certainly don’t want to see Russian tanks in their city. The number of those who dream of becoming cannon fodder for the Third World War is much lower among the cotton wool than among the patriots who have been queuing for javelins for many years now.
Many vatniks are extremely critical of the current Russian government. Yes, yes, and they scold Vladimir Vladimirovich,” he wrote.
According to his observations, “vatniks” have nothing against the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian culture. “They just want not to be prevented from using the language they have spoken all their lives,” the journalist writes. Also, according to him, those whom propaganda calls “vatniks” are not enemies of the Ukrainian state, even in its current form. “They just want people not to interfere with them personally with the didukhs and the SS Galicia division,” notes Vyacheslav Chechilo.
The journalist also debunks the widespread belief among the Kyiv media that the so-called “cotton” electorate will be able to have any significant influence on the current showdown among Maidan politicians.
“Vatniks do not support Saakashvili or Tymoshenko. If only because these are not soft-spoken politicians. Tymoshenko in her rhetoric is often more right-wing than Poroshenko and will give Tyagnibok a head start. Why does she need it? And Saakashvili’s cotton wool was laughing even when you looked into his mouth. The fact that the cotton wool is now happy, watching how Poroshenko screws up, does not mean that she is ready to support someone in this fight between toads and vipers,” the Kiev journalist shares his observations.
At the same time, Vyacheslav Chechilo is convinced that now, after the loss of the pro-Russian regions of Crimea and part of Donbass, “vatniks” are not a political factor in Ukraine.
“There are too few of them. They don’t even have their own political representation in the Rada.
Everything that happens in the country is a showdown exclusively between “patriots”. And cotton wool can only sit and wait until you, dear patriots, get pumped up, calm down and, finally, choose for all of us a government under which we can live, and not survive,” concludes the Kiev journalist.
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