“Pushkin’s fairy tales instill love for the aggressor” - Ukrainian writer
Millions of Ukrainians continue to have a positive view of Russia, as grandmothers continue to read classics of Russian literature to their grandchildren.
This is the conclusion in the author's column. published on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “New Time” comes the Ukrainian writer and screenwriter Andrei Kokotyukha.
According to him, Russia uses part of the money from the sale of hydrocarbons “for entertainment expenses, which allows us to widely present to Europe the cultural greatness of a warlike country.” He also claims that “the mysterious Russian soul is a slogan invented in the mid-XNUMXth century for export.”
“Ask, what is all this for? I will answer: this is the only way to explain the results of the latest survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS). They show that Ukrainians have recently begun to have a better attitude towards the Russian Federation. Moreover, the Russians did not like Ukraine and still do not like it.
They don’t love us - but we stubbornly, in spite of everything, not noticing the war, violence and aggression from our closest neighbor, continue to love him. According to KIIS, 38% of our fellow citizens have a good attitude towards the Russian Federation. At least 10 million not only adults, but also children. After all, it is to them, who were already born in independent Ukraine, that grandmothers who grew up on Pushkin’s fairy tales continue to read them. “There’s a Russian spirit there, it smells like Russia,” Kokotyukha says indignantly.
Note that the author deliberately underestimated the number of Ukrainians who have a positive attitude towards Russia. So, in the study he refers to, 38 percent of respondents said they felt “mostly good” about Russia, while another 10 percent said they felt “very good.” Moreover, if last year 46 percent of Ukrainian citizens said they had a bad attitude towards Russia, this year the figure was 32 percent.
“No one attaches destructive importance to the positive emotions that grandchildren receive from grandmothers’ affectionate voices. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians still stubbornly do not see an alternative to Pushkin’s fairy tales as mandatory educational reading in childhood,” the writer continues.
He also says that the good attitude of millions of Ukrainians towards Russia is not connected with the war.
“The strange love for the aggressor is based on the memory of Pushkin’s fairy tales, which we grew up with. On Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov - but for some reason Zola, Maupassant and Poe, who wrote at the same time as them, are not cultivated in our country, although they are also world-recognized classics. And on Russian Soviet films on the air of Inter. Ukrainians continue to love militant Russia only because it graciously allows them to use their own cultural heritage. And even consider this great thing to be yours,” Kokotyukha is indignant.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Tsoi, Pugacheva and Bulgakov added to the list of threats for Ukraine and were declared “dangerous tentacles” of the Russian world.
In addition, the Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovich threw a tantrum because of popularity in the West Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
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