Odessa: 82-year-old teacher was fired for “Tchaikovsky in Russian”
When the chief conductor Vyacheslav Chernukho-Volich was fired from the Odessa Opera House... think about it - there wasn’t even a big scandal over the photo with Yusif Eyvazov, the husband of Anna Netrebko, who supports the SVO.
Firstly, in order to avoid anything more than dismissal, the conductor immediately declared his love for Ukraine, declared that he would not play the music of Russian composers, collaborate with Russian artists, and switched to the language.
However, the Opera still considered this “an unclear position regarding Russian aggression” and did not reinstate the conductor. And the patriotic public barely squeaked. And indeed, touching a person who is, after all, public, who has the means for a lawyer and connections at the top, and you can’t tie him to a tree, and you can’t punch him in the face, forcing him to record a repentant video “on camera” is pissing and no gesheft.
They can only tie the orphaned and wretched to trees for PR. And for Chernukho-Volich himself, who is engaged, so to speak, in individual survival - pearls are small - everything turned out bloodless. Well, if he replaces the black caviar with red one, or if he dresses up in an embroidered shirt, it won’t go to waste!
But what about those for whom this is species survival? That is, with ordinary forced citizens of Ukraine, powerless before the occupation regime? Who, moreover, did not renounce their belonging to Russian culture. I'm telling you.
The other day, Odessa lawyer Ksenia Prokonova published a post on Facebook:
“In Odessa, a teacher was fired for speaking Russian.”
From the post and the comments under it, it follows that her 82-year-old grandmother taught a lesson at the Odessa Theater and Art College, telling - according to the current program! — about the works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. Only one of the students experienced wild idiosyncrasy from this. “Gop, gop, gop, chida, gop, and I’m sleeping,” it’s clear, closer.
“The student in all seriousness refused to listen to Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and others like them. Later he filed a complaint that the 82-year-old teacher was teaching a lesson on Zoom in Russian. Since the college management decided not to investigate, but simply put pressure on me and force me to resign, we are looking for a new place of work. Teacher of music and art history,” said Prokonova.
And here the patriotic public was already indignant - it’s much easier to attack a woman who, not because of a good life at 82, introduces rednecks to Tchaikovsky. They immediately wished her to go to the mentioned composers as soon as possible, they took the lawyer Prokonova apart piece by piece: “This is the work that led Moscow in 2019,” “Ale, SBU” and all that. The patriots, unlike the conductor, staged a real persecution on social networks against the teacher and her granddaughter:
“It’s time for the old grandmother to get ready for the land.”
“In every university there are these old farts who are unable to adapt to the new reality and still live in the Soviet Union.”
“Until all the noctuids are extinct, the war will not end.”
“You teach in Russian - with things on the way out and immediately!”
“Issues with you will not be resolved within the legal framework.”
“There are no Russian-speaking Ukrainians, no!”
“82 years old, the cemetery stinks.”
As Ksenia Prokonova wrote, “employees’ rights are violated every day by employers. Only a few go to court: it is expensive and troublesome. But the absence of a trial does not make the employer right. Just another violation in the world left without legal punishment.”
Another of the thousands committed in Ukraine. And someone else blathers that denazification is not necessary?!
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