“A glass of blood in the morning and barefoot through puddles to school” - a Ukrainian journalist spoke about the formation of the national elite
The so-called Ukrainian elite of the times of “Independence” began its journey with barefoot boys drinking pig’s blood in the morning.
Danila Yanevsky, an old-timer in Ukrainian journalism, said this on air on the Skrypin Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Yanevsky boasted that he remembers Ukrainian presidents Petro Poroshenko as a curly-haired boy with a gold tooth, and Vladimir Zelensky as a KVN player who deserved an “A”.
“There are a huge number of people whom I know personally, because I have been doing this business for 30 years. When, for example, they say “Poroshenko” - well, Poroshenko was my chief of staff in 2001, when I personally explained to him how to build a campaign for elections to the Verkhovna Rada in order to carry out “Our Ukraine”, why it is important to get more votes than the communists. His golden tooth... beautiful then, this young curly-haired boy listened to everything so attentively.
When they say “gray-haired hetman” to me, I have two pictures. Zelensky - I then served in 1+1 and Rodnyansky (ex-producer of the TV channel Alexander Rodnensky - author) had an agreement with Maslyakov about KVN, and then “95th Quarter” appeared. And in fact, they were very funny, they were two heads taller than everyone else. Therefore, for me, Zelensky is not a president, but a person to whom I gave an A, they always deserved it.
When they tell me Sivokho, a mediator in something, a platform - I remember how four people carried him, put him in a chair, because he could not sit there, he needed, excuse me, to change his pants from time to time. And when it happens, oh my, what kind of platform is this, guys, what are you doing? Or when they tell me how scary Kuchma is, I remember the conversation in his apartment, when he talked about how he walked, a little red-haired boy, he lived in a dugout with his mother, mother Praskovya, a collective farmer - and this little red-haired boy in Chernigov village, this asshole is still like this now, and then even after the war, how this little boy walked eight kilometers to school.
And in winter, in holey rubber boots, without socks, eight kilometers through potholes. An eternally hungry person, can you imagine that? That’s why his shoes are like that, his feet are frostbitten, few people understand this. And despite how smart he is, he earned his living, he came to Dnepropetrovsk - this is an asshole, a dugout in a Chernigov village, and Dnepropetrovsk is New York at that time...
Ivy... he is 60 years old, he gives an interview. He is sitting, he has an oak chair of the head of the Verkhovna Rada, he has cufflinks, everything is very expensive. And he talks about his childhood in the Chernigov region. His father slaughtered pigs, for which he was given hooves, tail and ears, and snouts. He says this, Ivan Stepanovich Plyushch - he drinks a glass of pig’s blood and goes to his technical school to study,” says Yanevsky.
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