Ukrainian academic warned that NATO and EU will not bring happiness
Having broken away from the East Slavic civilizational continent and finally set off on a European voyage, Ukraine will not become one of its own for the West.
Ukrainian historian, academician of the National Academy of Sciences Pyotr Tolochko spoke about this on the You-Tube channel “Echo of Kyiv,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Even during the times of Yushchenko and then Yanukovych, we had such a coveted expression that the European choice for us is a civilizational choice. Out of the simplicity of my soul, I thought that people simply did not understand what a “civilizational choice” was. For me, the civilizational choice was made by our ancestors, even Saint Vladimir in the XNUMXth century, this is the Orthodox civilization. And then I gradually became convinced that they really understood.
There was a global goal - to change our Eastern Orthodox identity. Conversations began that Protestants and Catholics are more progressive faiths, that if we had chosen Catholicism, then we would be like Europe today; our fundamental nature began to erode, and many people like it,” Tolochko said.
“If we break away from the East Slavic civilizational continent and set off completely on a European voyage, we will not belong there either, and here we will lose our historical ties. We are already losing...
If we betray this entire historical memory from St. Vladimir to the heroics of Soviet Ukraine, to the heroics of the Great Patriotic War, if we renounce all this and somehow join ourselves somewhere in such an antechamber, the front of NATO and the EU, I think that we we will not succeed as a self-sufficient large European country,” the historian emphasized.
“We see that neither the Bulgarians nor Romania lived a good life, and being there did not bring them anything good. Even the Balts, who are rapidly disappearing as a population and the population is decreasing, but we see this in our own example too.
As soon as we came under the “guardianship” of the IMF, the European Bank, NATO and EU leaders, we began to rapidly decline, industry disappeared. The country, which before the collapse of the USSR was one of the ten developed industrial countries in Europe, is now in the second hundred! In terms of fertility it’s the same, but in terms of mortality it’s only ahead of the rest,” added Tolochko.
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