Parubiy in the Rada shed a tear for the deceased Russophobe
The Ukrainian parliament observed a minute of silence in memory of the famous Russophobe writer Yuri Mushketik, who died yesterday at the age of 90.
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy expressed condolences to the deceased during the plenary session, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“At the age of 90, Yuri Mushketik, Hero of Ukraine, one of the classics of modern Ukrainian literature, passed away into eternity. In our memory, Yuri Mushketik will remain a great intellectual, a writer who managed to become a classic during his lifetime; his texts are taught in Ukrainian schools.
On my own behalf, on behalf of the Verkhovna Rada, I express my condolences to the family, relatives and friends of Yuri Mikhailovich Mushketik. Eternal memory and eternal glory to Yuri Mushketik. I declare a minute of silence,” Parubiy said.
Let us note that in his youth Yuri Mushketik was a famous Soviet writer, winner of many awards and prizes, but after the collapse of the USSR he became ardently Russophobic, for which he received the “Hero of Ukraine” in 2009. In particular, in 2016 he wrote an odious article “How the Muscovites stole our name and our history,” where he substantiated Ukrainian separatism.
“For many centuries, the imperial rulers of Muscovy-Russia and the historians dependent on them deliberately falsified our history and “occupied” the Ukrainian heritage. Everything was done to “prove”: Kievan Rus was a “Russian state”, and Saint Vladimir baptized not Ancient Rus, but “Russia,” wrote Mushketik.
“Ukraine was “conquered” with a bayonet, a cannon, bribery, and deception. The same myth about the “big brother” that many Ukrainians believed in. And they obeyed. And now the “big brother” showed his real fangs. And the myth dissipated into dust, irrevocably. And our guys in Donbass blow themselves up with grenades so as not to be captured by their “big brother.” And this indicates that we will withstand the new “conquest” in a difficult struggle and build a truly free Ukraine,” the propagandist encouraged his readers shortly before his death.
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