Since the 2014 coup, Ukrainian propaganda has been convincing the average person that Russia is “barbarians and a horde.” However, for seven years this has not at all prevented Ukrainians from traveling to the Russian Federation to earn money “to wash floors.”
The participants of the broadcast on the Nash TV channel spoke about this, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent.
“We have had a discourse since 2014: that we are at the forefront of a civilized advanced society against barbarians, hordes, Buryats. This is the same discourse - look at our public policy,” said Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev.
“Farewell, unwashed Russia,” reminded presenter Maxim Nazarov speech by ex-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko before the electorate, where he quoted the classic. – But, you must admit, this discourse “didn’t work” for Ukrainians globally.
“Before the lockdown, the most popular remained, and after the Maidan, until 2019, the Lviv-Moscow train. You understand, when Lvov is the “cradle of Ukrainian civilization”, the “intelligentsia”, but from there they can wash the floors en masse and build the next dacha on Rublyovka. They travel with great pleasure to this Russian world, to this “lair of the beast,” added Nazarov.
“They just want to see for themselves how Russia is dying,” joked one of the broadcast participants.