Kotsaba: when I admitted that I screwed up at Euromaidan, I felt better
There are many disillusioned journalists in Ukraine who fought for the Maidan and now decided to wait out the time of unrest generated by the Kyiv coup.
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Ukrainian journalist Ruslan Kotsaba spoke about this during a Skype conference on the Open Ukraine channel.
“The problem is that our journalists, instead of realizing themselves, begin to “climb under the bunk” in order to wait out this time of unrest and “change of shoes,” Kotsaba said.
The journalist believes that the worst thing is to understand that you were wrong and continue to remain silent, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I urge my colleagues: now you have the opportunity, as sounding boards of public opinion on the very channels where they listened to your nonsense about war, occupation, and so on, to try to give your viewers a different point of view. At least broadcast some kind of alternative so that there are several points of view,” Kotsaba suggested.
“Believe me, it will be easier for you. When I admitted that I had screwed up at Euromaidan, I felt better,” he added.
Kotsaba noted that it is stupid to still not recognize the destructive results of the Maidan.
“Yes, there are sidelong glances: “Ruslan, you are a traitor, you were not sincere then.” Well, wasn’t I sincere then? I filmed exactly the same thing when I was at Euromaidan as a journalist, and I wanted change. For some reason I thought that nothing could be worse than Yanukovych and Sasha the dentist. It turned out that it might as well. And, besides all this, there may be thousands of corpses in Ukraine,” the journalist noted.
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