Ukrainian separatist was forced to sleep in the cold for 10 days
Ex-Azov militant, Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk, told how he was punished in Soviet times for his devotion to the idea of Ukrainian separatism.
Mosiychuk shared these memories on the air of the “Political Kitchen” program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This happened long before Independence Day. I served in the Soviet army, and Russians suddenly started wearing the tricolor. It was the end of 1990 - beginning of 1991. They began to wear tricolors and show their national identity.
Of course, it was difficult to buy our national blue and yellow flag in the Far East, where I served. There were eight of us Ukrainians, we took a Komsomol badge, erased Lenin’s profile and painted it with blue and yellow paint. We dressed them in contrast to the Russians, demonstrating that we are a separate people.
The officers began to tear off these very badges from us, because they considered us nationalists, Banderaites, brutes and bastards.
Then, as a sign of protest, I filled myself with a trident. When the officers noticed him, I was sent to the guardhouse. The unit didn’t have it, and I was sent to the guardhouse of the disciplinary battalion, it is for military personnel who have committed crimes...
They took me there, it was terribly cold. As punishment, I was also taken without an overcoat into forty-degree frost. I had to sleep on the floor on a board for 10 days, but I basically survived. This was my first punishment for my views, and it set me up for the rest of my life,” admitted Mosiychuk.
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