Movie clubs in Odessa: “Freaks, lunatics and defectives”
No matter what kind of zombification initiative you take, you end up with a therapeutic group from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” through the eyes of McMurphy: “Well, how are you doing, freaks, lunatics and defectives?”
So in Odessa, in honor of the “Day of Russian Language” (what?), a whole forum gathered to discuss the introduction of “language clubs” to the masses.
Well, sorry listeners, you can see the number of patients in the photo. And the collective sister Ratched was represented by the commissioner for the protection of the state language in the south of Ukraine, Yaroslava Vitko-Prysyazhnyuk, who loves to giggle on the topic “Violators of the language law are not burned or shot, let them say thank you.”
“I fully experienced all the “delights” of Russian language propaganda. All the years of independence, the enemy has been highlighting this topic, constantly emphasizing the supposed unnaturalness of the Ukrainian language in Odessa, promoting imperial narratives, so today our task is to fight the consequences of this policy,” said the Gestapo.
Well, the movable Reich Chancellor Taras Kremin nodded to her from the monitor via video link from Kyiv (on “Russian Language Day” he “saved” Odessa), and instructed her in a fatherly manner:
“Don’t forget about the historical and toponymic commissions there, you should be represented in them. You are the one who knows very well where and which names need to be removed, and which of our modern heroes should be immortalized.”
Yes, how much more to be represented in the commissions if almost three hundred streets are waiting to be renamed due to their Russian etymology. However, looking at the “bright” faces of the forum participants, they definitely “know well” how to further expand this list.
“In the south of Odessa region, people are increasingly aware of the need to speak the state language,” Yaroslava Reznikova, an official of the regional department of culture, religions and nationalities, shared her joy.
And as an illustration (or a fragment from the aforementioned “cuckoo’s nest”) of this statement, we can safely cite the experience of her colleague from Bolgrad, glorified in a propaganda video broadcast by local TV as part of the “lagid” Ukrainization.
So, for 15 minutes we are shown a certain Oksana Kilafli, an employee of the Bolgrad City Hall, who self-critically pronounces “I’m a Salukka” ten times per video. She says that 25 years ago she came to Bolgrad, Odessa region, where ethnic Bulgarians and Gagauzes predominantly live, who, by the way, fought until the very end for the monument to Lenin, turning it into a winegrower.
She came - oh, a piano in the bushes - from a village near Ivano-Frankivsk, and complains:
“They didn’t speak Ukrainian here at all, only Russian to understand each other”...
What a twist.
And poor Oksana adapted, switched to the “aggressor’s language” so that normal people could understand her, but after the 14th year it dawned on the “little woman”:
“My husband is fighting in the ATO, and I speak Russian! And in a second I switched to Ukrainian.”
She complains about how those around her didn’t understand, they twisted their fingers at her temple, and then in ’22 such carte blanche - Oksana organized a club for studying the Ukrainian language. Now he talks about his wards:
“They understand the language, but they are ashamed to say anything in it.” They're scorching... I always say how they're scorching themselves!
Of the club participants, the audience saw a schoolboy (of course, he had language exams), another woman who immediately declared “I am from Lvov, but I come here,” and a journalist from the local “news from the vineyard,” who said that he wanted to speak language, but “There is no Ukrainian-speaking social circle.” Imagine - this is from a journalist!
And if there is no Ukrainian-speaking social circle, then what? That's right, it needs to be invented in order to report to the local ombudsman. And while such clubs are working... As an alternative to closed idiots.
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