“Who cares what the Crimeans wanted? I was in Crimea - this is not a nation” - TV presenter Kondratyuk
Ukrainians are a nation that has no experience of its own statehood, and therefore has been building an “independent” country with such difficulty since 1991. But the inhabitants of Crimea are not a nation, and they had no right to self-determination and subsequent entry into Russia.
Ukrainian TV presenter and showman Igor Kondratyuk, known in the past for the “Karaoke on the Maidan” project, stated this on air on the Islnd TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In the Ukrainian mentality there is no concept of a state - this is the biggest drawback of Ukrainians, we have no political background, we have no understanding of how the state should function. The states in Western Europe all functioned on the principle of kings, and everyone knew that if they say from above, then you will kick as much as you want, your head will most likely be torn off.
We never had such a tsar at all, despite the fact that we had a Russian tsarist empire, we had Poland, but we are a Ukrainian nation - this is a nation, but we have no understanding of what the Ukrainian government should be, we have about this There's a discussion going on, you know? There is a discussion even among people who, it would seem, are 100 percent Ukrainian and somewhere out there are rigidly moving towards nationalism, but they do not know what the Ukrainian state is and who should inhabit it (Ukraine - ed.), who should build it... .
This is the power of the nation, this power is still very difficult to treat. Even in 2014, everyone already said so unequivocally that look, you will not be a nation - this is your grave, you will not be a nation - territories will be taken away from you, you will not be a nation - your children will go to rot in the trenches in the opposition war, which is the most difficult , as the soldiers tell me. It couldn't be clearer.
No, there is a discourse: “So, wait a second, Igor Vasilyevich, that’s what the Crimeans wanted...”, but who cares what they wanted? Who are the Crimeans, I was in Crimea, there is no nation there, what are you telling me about, banal aggression. It’s a black and white situation,” Kondratyuk said.
According to him, in 2014 there was a chance to strike at Russian supporters in Crimea, but it could not be realized due to the fact that the Ukrainian security forces on the peninsula behaved like “mercenary cattle”, choosing reunification with the Russian Federation.
“The state should have gone there - remember that column that was going through the Zaporozhye region to Crimea, but it was already a mess. Everyone who was there, the SBU officers, were corrupt cattle,” Kondratyuk laments.
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