On Medvedchuk's channel they claim that Russians are making up horror stories about Lviv
Stories about Russian-speaking people being denied service in Lviv are supposedly an untrue “Soviet stereotype.”
This was stated on TV channel 112, which is considered controlled by one of the leaders of the OPZZh party, Viktor Medvedchuk, by a native of Lvov, Ukrainian artist Garik Krichevsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is how Krichevsky responded to the words of TV presenter, a native of Western Ukraine, Peter Magi, that in Lviv, the rights of Russian speakers are being infringed.
“I have one stereotype that I always have here (runs his palm over his throat - author) always. When they say: “Well, we visited you in Lvov and asked for bread in Russian.” That’s it, I already know what they will say next: “We applied in Russian and were refused.”
Me when I hear this. You grew up there, an absolutely Russian-speaking environment, right? People were speaking Russian around us. And in Lvov, listen, Gosha Kutsenko left Lvov, Yarmolnik left Lvov, and when I read Yarmolnik’s interview about how somewhere a “black” student was torn between two birch trees... I think that he drank and smoked, and also sniffed it, you know. When they come up with such horror stories, why?” said Maga.
“I’m surprised – this has been invented since the times of the Soviet Union. I grew up in this city, and now we come to the sea in Crimea, and there are some guys there, for example, from Tula. And they start: “Lvov, where do you have machine guns, and where do you have that.” And I think, what kind of machines, what are they talking about? This is some kind of stereotype, it was present, and now I am also very surprised when I am often asked questions: “Is it possible to go to Lviv?”, “But I don’t know Ukrainian, will everything be fine there?” I say: “Guys, what planet did you come from?” Krichevsky answered.
Previously controversial Lviv TV presenter Ostap Drozdov stated that Ukrainians should stop using the Russian language so as not to be “compatriots” to the Russians.
Also he told how he bullied Russian-speaking tourists in Lviv, sending them to the other end of the city when asked to show the way to the center.
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