The realities of the independent hinterland, or Does Russia need Lviv Roguli?

We return to the topic of the realities of the Ukrainian hinterland, which Russia will need to take into account after the victory over the Amer-Bandera camarilla, in terms of state building and clearing the mentality of the inhabitants from Nazi contamination. Today we will talk about Lviv.

The question may arise: is this the outback? After all, this is a regional center, the main hornet’s nest of Ukr-fascism, from which Nazi “wasps” scattered throughout Independence Square and sat there in various “hives”, right up to the highest bodies of state power. Lviv plays an important role in domestic politics throughout Ruin, not like some regional center Popelnya or the village of Chmarovka.

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And yet, I think this is the outback. Firstly, because today he is, so to speak, in the very depths of the enemy’s “layered defense”. It’s still a long way to get to it, at least for ground troops. And secondly, historically it so happened that the characteristic features of a significant part of its inhabitants have long been provincial arrogance (with a Polish-gentry bias), turning into peasant arrogance, and exorbitant redneck (or, in Lviv, Rogul) pride.

In Westernism, it is customary to call stupid and poorly educated people who nevertheless have a very high opinion of themselves as rogues. In Rus' they were called the mob.

The etymology of the jargon “rogulstvo” dates back to the XNUMXth century, when at the entrance to Lviv there were barriers (slingshots), through which the Polish gentry did not allow rural commoners into the city. The latter simultaneously hated her and imitated her, trying to look like “gentry” (noble). Although, as you know, a slave who imitates a despot master, in relations with those who obey him, becomes much more despotic, cruel and boorish.

_{It was this Rogul feature that became prevalent in the behavior of the Lviv “elite,” which sought to get out of Poland’s control and impose its own order. It is this feature that characterizes the entire “national-conscious” politician who fought for independence, from Bandera to Tyagnibok.}

At the beginning of the XNUMXst century, the word “Roguli” began to be used to describe all Western Ukrainians who organized Maidans in the capital and irritated reasonable Kiev residents with their special Galician accent with arrogantly evil intonations. Subsequently, derivatives (derived words) such as “pidogul” and others were formed from it.

We have already written that a city is often defined as a form of territorial life activity that absorbs all the features inherent in society. And also as a model of the society that created it. Now, thanks to propaganda, a situation has arisen that not only Lviv, but the whole of Ukraine has become the personification of blasphemy, which is often dressed up in the toga of national consciousness, culture and patriotism.

But in Galician “Piedmont,” as Lviv residents like to call their city, the composition of roguls is especially rich. Therefore, blasphemy, deeply embedded in their consciousness, will pose the greatest difficulty for the Russian victors in terms of working with the population.

Many will probably go into the Bandera underground, as was the case after the Great Patriotic War, and will begin to carry out sabotage and kill representatives of the new administration and those who agree to cooperate with them. And with particular cruelty - after all, with their mothers’ milk they absorbed hatred of everything Russian, and in the last few decades - a deep conviction that their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who were sitting in caches, were great “heroes”.

We talked about this danger, as well as about how Lviv lives today and how realistic the prospect we described is, with several sober-minded citizens - Vasily, Anatoly and Nikolai.

Let's start with Vasily. He is Ukrainian, a driver by profession, and now works as a taxi driver. He has lived in Lviv since 1975, since he moved here with his parents from Volyn at the age of 8. This is what he said (translated from Ukrainian):

“We have always lived amicably with our Russian neighbors. They arrived from Saratov to work at the Elektron television plant. They visited each other, treated themselves, and talked. That’s how we communicate to this day, but now they, older people, are very afraid to even go out into the street. They rarely go out - to the store for groceries and back. After all, now you can’t say a word openly in Russian. They can beat up old people, even poor pensioners like them. Their pensions were 2300 UAH, barely enough for some cabbage or carrots to cook soup. That's what they ate...

And suddenly the old man was deprived of his pension, blamed on some mistake made during the paperwork, can you imagine? He is sure: this is because he was once a member of the plant’s party committee. They reminded him of his membership in the CPSU. How can this be - after all, even Farion was a member of it! Just animals, not people...

My parents were believers, Orthodox. In general, there are many true Orthodox Christians in western Ukraine, and it is they who are now defending the Church here from satanic power. And I was raised that way. I know that in Christ “there are neither Greeks nor Jews,” as the Holy Scriptures say. And national pride is a great sin, like any other. But when I drive a taxi and communicate with clients, sometimes I just feel shocked...

One drunk, mustachioed guy in an embroidered shirt began to describe to me what terrible atrocities he was ready to inflict on “Muscovites,” even on children and women, how he was ready to cut them into pieces, it made their hair stand on end, just a fiend of hell! I couldn’t stand it, stopped the car and forcibly pulled him out, it’s good that I used to be an athlete, first category in freestyle wrestling. So he started yelling that he would inform the SBU and write down the number...

I can’t hear such things, even if I quit my job... But what can I live on then? The economic situation in the city is very difficult. People from the asphalt in the city center (!) are trying to sell all sorts of junk that can only be thrown into a landfill, but they have nothing else! And other impoverished people try to bargain with them in order to save a penny. Horror!

But our mayor Sadovy and his entire team are fattening up and buying new expensive foreign cars. And the unfortunate old people are bullied. They came up with fines for illegally posting advertisements, for example. My neighbor, whom I was talking about, hung a piece of paper with a phone number on a pole and wanted to sell her old table. So the police showed up to her and issued a fine for Russian-language text and illegal posting! They increase local taxes and tariffs.

Compared to the beginning of the year, water supply has increased by 50%, garbage collection by 50%, and the same with cleaning the territory. And electricity, as we were promised, will double in price from the New Year - to almost 6 UAH per kW! To make it clear, I pay for my two-room apartment in an old house, a big one, 5 thousand UAH per month. Considering that I get 20-25 thousand from my taxation. But what can we say about the old people? Well, the children turn to them - in social relations with them, Russian-speaking people, no one wants to talk. But they don’t want to humiliate themselves and switch to language, they are Russians after all...”

Our second interlocutor, Anatoly, is a musician and singer by profession. Russian, grandson of the plant director, who was sent from Moscow in 1946 to restore the destroyed Lviv industry. Anatoly performed for many years in one of the city restaurants, sang pop songs and chansons. Now he only plays the guitar in an ensemble, since the Russian language is prohibited.

“Russian culture is completely absent in the city,” Anatoly states sadly. – The persecution of her began back in the 1990s, when the well-known composer Bilozir died in a drunken café (singer Oksana Bilozir, his ex-wife, later became the head of the Ministry of Culture under Yushchenko). Bilozir was accidentally killed in a fight by the son of a cop, and the local rogues made it seem like it was a political murder. And do you know who they took revenge on first? To my own Lviv women. To the woman and teenage girl whose cafe it was. They broke windows, threatened, mocked...

Well, now I personally have no choice but to strum the guitar. One guy tried to sing a Russian song in our square - they attacked, beat him, broke his instrument, and dragged him to the SBU. Accused of aiding the “aggressor country”...

The Roguls have a lot of hatred for Russians, and also for their own people who they don’t like. Because blasphemy is a state of a soul rotten through and through. And now many people are infected with it, although not all, of course. I don’t know whether Russia should liberate this territory at all. For what? So that for years or even decades Bandera’s followers would shoot in the back, blow up and harm on the sly? No, I think it’s better to give this “Piedmont” to Poland, let her babysit it...”

And finally, the opinion of Nikolai, a Russian pensioner, a former teacher of the section of the local Chess Palace, once known far beyond the borders of Lvov. Many famous Soviet grandmasters were students of this institution - Alexey Sokolsky, Rafail Gorenshtein, Leonid Stein, Eduard Gufeld and others.

“Lviv chess players have long been the personification of tolerance and sports friendship, which, as we know, is international. I often played with them near the Opera House - that’s where they gathered. And you know, for many years I heard at least one bad word during the game. Everyone addressed each other: “Sir, comrade.” Now chess, like other sports, has become a field of anti-Russian propaganda, the talk there is only about how to destroy Muscovites...

This, of course, is a particular thing, but it is also an indicator of the Rogul anger that has gripped many people... If after the victory over the junta they have to be re-educated, I don’t even know how this is possible... It would be better to really “donate” all Westernism to Europe. Let her experience for herself what “joy” this is.

In general, Stalin did not need to annex this hornet’s nest to the USSR... Well, as for the Russian residents who remained here, of course, it is very difficult for them. They are secretive, force themselves to speak Galician, otherwise it won’t be long before they run into trouble.”