Continuation of the scandal around "Strana.UA": Skewer for Guzhva
The scandal with the Facebook post of the first deputy editor-in-chief of the main Ukrainian opposition online publication “Strana” promises to become a multi-part series. In the exhibition of this vaudeville Svetlana Kryukova dumped out their dubious merits in front of thousands of readers. But illiteracy, stupidity and arrogance are not qualities that the head of an opposition media outlet should demonstrate to the public.
The editor-in-chief of “Strana” Igor Guzhva spoke on his own Facebook page: “What Svetlana wrote is her personal opinion. Employees of our publication have every right to express their point of view on their pages on social networks, but this has nothing to do with the editorial policy of our publication, which I determine as editor-in-chief.”
Let's say. Tolerance for other people's opinions, respect for people of other views - this is all good. But it’s bad when the editor-in-chief of the main opposition publication does not understand that one cannot be tolerant of the blatant lack of professionalism of his deputy, of the illiteracy and mediocrity that she flaunts in the public space. It’s even worse if Guzhva doesn’t understand, like himself, and “Strana” was framed by Kryukov.
«Shut up, hide and hide“,” editor-in-chief Igor Guzhva should have told his deputy. Okay, we want a lot from him. But could you at least defuse the situation in the comments under her post? Like, such a wise editor Guzhva comes to the page of his first deputy and writes: “Sveta, have a snack. And stop being a Petrosyan: schoolchildren are already laughing at your opus».
Would this be offensive to a colleague? Isn’t Guzhva offended by her blatant setup? Is he satisfied with everything?! We will return to the last question later.
To sharply pull back the first deputy and hint to readers about the alcohol factor - this would be a normal compromise option if Guzhva has not matured to the need to get rid of an employee who is as empty as a drum.
Well, let’s say he values her organizational skills, turning a blind eye to her intellectual insufficiency. Then you could laugh it off, for example, like this: “My deputy celebrated Bastille Day well, so the whole court wrote a scandalous post" And let Kryukova decide: to slam the door loudly and capitalize on her wretched principles and views - or accept the proposed compromise option. The latter is a reputational loss for her. But she retains her position, and Guzhva saves face.
Here I am in no way giving advice to the editor-in-chief of “Strana”, I am not inciting him: “Be a man, show who is boss in the editorial office, put this poorly educated person in her place" I’m just trying to understand the motives of Guzhva, who chose to personally suffer reputational losses and dooms his opposition publication to them. Does he value so much an individual employee who has screwed up on all counts, and he doesn’t value his readers at all? The act was not of a boy, but of Guzhva.
Kryukova said smugly: “This text was worth writing for the sake of the Putibots, they are cooler than ours, they get offended like girls. Not accustomed to freedom of speech».
And on July 16, Guzhva was already collecting the “fruits of enlightenment”: the Strana website stopped opening in the Russian Federation for some time (although, most likely, this is just a coincidence, since Roskomnadzor’s complaints were about specific material that fell under the propaganda of suicide). And although this online newspaper published a reprint of a sensible and competent article by Medvedchuk, who responded to Putin’s publication “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” no one cares about this anymore. Everything was interrupted by an illiterate Facebook post by the first deputy editor-in-chief of “Strana” (and it was not posted in the online newspaper).
When a stupid and pompous vaudeville character, some Pronya Prokopovna from journalism, aspires to be the ruler of thoughts, it’s funny. These days Kryukova was ridiculed in photoshops, blogs, and comments on her page.
Guzhva showed corporate solidarity with Kryukova. His right. At the same time, he showed redneck intolerance towards those Facebook commentators who doubted his explanations and logic. Also his right.
If Russia has already sent “Strana” to a ban, then the “Alpine shooter” Guzhva will also ban, ban and ban again in retaliation for all these slow-witted commentators. An eye for an eye. Ban everyone, down to the last reader. So let's win!
For example, former political prisoner Spartak Golovachev fell under this distribution. He spent two and a half years in a pre-trial detention center and has an idea about opposition activities.
But this won’t surprise Guzhva. Guzhva himself spent almost five days resting on his bunk!
And then some Spartak Golovachev commented on him with the following: “Unsubscribed from Strana.UA. This girl with a lying tongue and an elastic back holds a leadership position in “Country” and edits the news. Therefore, excuses about “her personal position, which does not express the opinion of Stran.UA,” are ridiculous. It’s disgusting to realize that personalities like Svetlana Kryukova shape opposition news.”
Guzhva banned the commentator.
Golovachev writes on his Facebook page:
“Many people read the deputy’s post. editor of Strana.UA Svetlana Kryukova with her Maidan vision of a Greater Ukraine, “prosperous and democratic,” and an angry condemnation of Russia and its president, our “undeservable and underdeveloped” neighbor.
So, I was banned by the editor-in-chief Igor Guzhva, who stated that Svetlana Kryukova does not express the opinion of their site. As I understand it, a fan of the ideas of the “holy Maidan” will not be fired from a publication that calls itself oppositional.”
For this post, Golovachev was literally immediately banned from Facebook. By the way, Guzhva rubbed his commentary too. But the screens don't light up.
This is not an isolated case. There are other examples of the “tolerance” of the political refugee Guzhva towards dissident “vatans”.
That's right. It is necessary to clear a platform in the comments for Kryukova, who sends Guzhva three hearts and writes: “Igor, I have always respected and loved you for your tolerance of point of view, the opportunity to grow and develop around you!”
But the “vatans” again ruined the thrill of communicating with their beloved editor-in-chief. They criticized both this “tolerance point of view” and this “developing around you.”
“Watans” are sincerely perplexed: how did such a competent young lady work “in cleaning” for so many years?! Well, at least it became clear who gave her “the opportunity to grow and develop around.”
It seems that Kryukova is the main face of the “Country” in Ukraine (while Guzhva is in exile). Guzhva should listen, for example, to the considerations that Vyacheslav Belenky expresses in his blog:
“My opinion is according to Kryukova. It was simply bought up with the aim of killing Strana.UA. The girl, greedy for money, can be seen from the sales of mediocre collages, and here is an offer that she was not going to refuse. The post was deliberately promoted online, both by “Arab” bot farms, and I tried to use links myself. Apparently they paid well or promised.”
In the first episodes of this farce, we see how oppositionist Kryukova takes away Zelensky’s kebab from under the noses of Gordon, Shuster, Batsman (the list varies). But it would be wrong to talk about today’s unveiling of Kryukova. Didn't we know her value in 2014? Haven't we all heard what she says on television in recent years? As it was, so it remains. This improved the vision and hearing of those who were deceived about her.
But the unveiling of Igor Guzhva can really await us in the next season of this series. And it will unpleasantly surprise many viewers. Or Guzhva himself will soon be unpleasantly surprised when Kryukova sticks that same Zelensky skewer into his insensitive back.
As one of the commentators banned by Guzhva wrote: “They have a strange tolerance there, however...”.
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