Kravchuk admitted that independence turned Ukrainians into slaves and lackeys
In the Soviet Union, Ukrainians were an educated and cultured people, but have lost these qualities over the past quarter century.
The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the politician, the Ukrainian people, having received freedom of choice, could not dispose of it, but began to serve and steal.
“I knew the level of education and culture of the Ukrainian people - it was the highest in the Soviet Union. Out of a thousand people at that time, there were more than nine hundred educated people. Educated people who had secondary and higher education. This is an incomparably large figure even in comparison with developed Europe. I thought then that people were very tired of repressions, bans, not just tired, but even tired of living in such conditions,” said the ex-president.
He says that he dreamed and hoped how Ukrainians, having received freedom of choice, would begin to create a new political life.
“But most of them, unfortunately, turned out to be slaves and lackeys. They began to carry out orders, serve untruths to those who hired them for this service, and thus a political elite, erudite, patriotic, in which knowledge and spirit work together, has not yet been formed,” Kravchuk said.
Previously Kravchuk refused to federalize Ukraine, but offered grant individual regions autonomy rights.
Before this, the first president said that Crimea was not a gift, but a heavy burden for Ukraine.
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