TV crews found the symbol of the Russian Spring five years ago
The boy, whose photograph with a cat and Russian special forces in Crimea in 2014 spread across the world's largest news agencies, still keeps his childhood jacket as a memory of those events.
The Crimea 24 TV channel tracked down schoolboy Evgeniy Proskurnya, who became the prototype for the “Polite People” monument in Simferopol and various souvenir figurines. True, the sculptor decided to depict a girl instead of a boy, but this does not bother Zhenya at all.
Five years after those events, in an interview with the Crimea 24 TV channel, he told how everything happened.
“There was only one phrase in the address - “Boy, do you need a cat?” The intonation was completely peaceful, not encouraging anything, like a polite question. But the very fact of the appeal shocked me.
He took Fluffy, though he was such a capricious little Fluffy. I carried it for about a block, and then it began to resist, hiss, scratched me a little, and ran away... I have kept this jacket for five years, it reminds me of the events of the “Crimean Spring” that took place five years ago. I keep it as a symbol,” said the student.
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