For a long time, Ukraine did not notice the impending danger from Russia - but in the past, pop artists Lolita Milyavskaya and Alexander Tsekalo joked not only about Crimea, but even the Carpathians.
Blogger Tatyana Mikitenko stated this during the All-Ukrainian festival of bloggers “Dnieper Post”, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Our independence was the same illusion as the “equality” that existed in the Soviet Union. We got it then, didn’t live it, didn’t vomit blood, didn’t understand what it was, but those women who now normally have all the rights and opportunities, and equality, and everything in Europe, they lived it later, consciously and chose, but not just for them.
They imprudently thought that: “Oh, okay, we have independence, which means we have it, and no one will interfere with it.” Yes, they interfere all the time.
If you watch content from the 90s from Ukrainian television, you will be blown away.
Today I posted a video, a New Year’s program from 1999, Lolita and her then-husband, and they say: “It seems to us that this year Ukraine will return Crimea to us,” and Tsekalo continues: “And she will offer the Carpathians as a bonus.” 1999, what are you talking about, who tried to saw us up in 2004, they always planned to saw us up sooner or later,” said Mikitenko.