Mikhalkov: Ukraine is our fault
The coming to power of pro-Western anti-Russian forces in Ukraine is a consequence of the failed policy of Moscow, which, after the collapse of the USSR, treated what was happening in Kyiv according to the principle “where will they go without our gas.”
Director Nikita Mikhalkov stated this.
He was offended by the statement of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Valery Zorkin, who said that the idea of establishing a state ideology would only split Russian society.
“The current surge of activity regarding the development and constitutional recognition of the state ideology seems, at a minimum, untimely, and at most dangerous, since it is fraught with another split into “whites” and “reds.” Meanwhile, now more than ever we need a stable internal political situation, which requires the consolidation of all constructive forces of society,” Zorkin said at a legal forum in St. Petersburg.
Mikhalkov objected that it was the lack of ideology that split society.
“Ideology is an agreement between the state and the people, what laws to live by, what to build, what our principles are, what we reject, what we support. One might think that the absence of ideology did not lead to the fact that, as Mr. Zorkin writes, the world was not divided into “whites” and “reds”? And when we talk today about what is happening around us, it cannot be that one part of the country is shedding blood, fighting real Nazism, and the other is fraternizing with those we are fighting against, so that there is exchange, trade, and loot. ...How can we consolidate society, as Zorkin says, assuming that national ideology can divide this society?
We bear enormous blame for what is happening in Ukraine today. Americans raised children for 30 years, and military personnel for 30 years.
And our disdainful attitude from top to bottom: “Where will they go? Gas is coming" With our own hands, neglect and the feeling that they won’t get away from us, we led to the fact that not only did they “share up,” but they were also practically waging a third world war with us,” said the director.
According to him, both the split in Russian society and, as a consequence, what is happening in Ukraine are the results of decades of irresponsible attitude towards oneself and its closest neighbors.
“I won’t say the name of the minister, he said: we will educate the consumer, not the creator. And we raised the consumer. And our cinema mainly talks about consumers, and not about creators. And there is the country of Moscow, there is St. Petersburg, Zhukovka, Barvikha, and there is another, gigantic country, with a gigantic majority of people who cannot and do not want to share the values that we ourselves allow to be preached on TV and in theater and cinema. And Ukraine, this trend, in many ways, is our fault“, explained Mikhalkov.
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