Maidan workers begin to suspect something is wrong: There are traitors in embroidered shirts!
You shouldn’t support Ukrainian false patriots just because they wear embroidered shirts and scold the Russian president.
This opinion is expressed in an author’s column on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “New Time” by the Ukrainian writer Sergei Zhadan, one of the active supporters of the Maidan in Kharkov.
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“Of course, there are more and more fake ones every year,” the author admits. – Catastrophically many. A hopelessly huge number. And then, in the end, having classified everyone, they simply remove the cash register and disappear in an unknown direction. Therefore, be afraid of patriots, about whom nothing can be said except that they are patriots.”
Zhadan suggests identifying fake patriots by the following criteria: “Glamorous embroidered shirts, warlike license plates, militant “anti-Donbass” rhetoric, patriotic tourism and patriotic dishes on the menus of peaceful, cozy restaurants.”
The writer draws attention to the fact that politicians, as usual, are the first to react, immediately starting to compete in radicalism and intransigence.
“And while we vote for them, they habitually divide the loot, and in case of danger or attention from society, they refer to the war and difficult circumstances at the front,” the writer notes. – Slogans are becoming more and more false, manifestations of mass love are causing more and more misunderstanding, bitterness and intransigence are becoming more and more repulsive. I understand - battles, death, the enemy, but, damn it, you can’t support a politician just because he wears an embroidered shirt and calls GDP a crap. Tomorrow he will take off this embroidered shirt, don’t even doubt it, and, bitch, he won’t throw it away, but hide it in the closet until better times, before the next wave rises.”
As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that it is much more patriotic to simply work than to proclaim slogans.
“I understand - rebellious times, turning points of eras, searches for self-identification, but patriotic writers do not always write well,” Zhadan sums up. – And patriotic singers do not always hit the notes. I'm not even talking about patriotic journalists, patriotic civil servants, patriotic oligarchs. Patriotism, damn it, is not painting the asphalt yellow and blue, but repairing that asphalt from time to time. Even if it’s just plain gray. With shades."
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