“It takes you away from the Russian world.” Galicians fell in love with Zelensky
At the next elections, Galicia may well vote for the current President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky.
The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports this in an author’s column published by the Kyiv magazine “New Time”, Lviv historian, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic Institute Yaroslav Gritsak writes.
He said that in the presidential elections two years ago he voted in Kharkov, where he gave lectures.
“It was interesting to watch people. For them, this day became like a holiday. And it’s quite clear why. They were going to put an end to the power of “this huckster” and his nationalist junta in embroidered shirts, which was profiting from the war while our guys were dying. And they were sure that victory would be theirs.
Our polling station was located in a residential area, far from the university and other institutions where the intelligentsia and middle class usually gather, so I admit that we and our students were the only minority who voted there for Petro Poroshenko. They did this because they were afraid that Vladimir Zelensky, with his incompetence, posed a threat to Ukraine,” recalls Gritsak.
Now he admits that both he and his opponents were wrong.
“The war continues under Zelensky, and Ukrainian state institutions have stood the test of a populist president. Now Zelensky is playing the role of Poroshenko, and I won’t be surprised if in the next elections my native Galicia, remembering the decision to close Viktor Medvedchuk’s channels and the application to join NATO, will now vote for him,” the Lvov professor does not rule out.
“Once Adam Michnik noted that the chances of Ukraine joining the European Union will be determined not by Kyiv or Lviv, but by Dnepr, Odessa and Kharkov - in short, the Russian-speaking part of the country. Therefore, I see only one big plus in Zelensky’s arrival: he accustoms the majority of the local population to the idea that there is no turning back and that even “their” president must take Ukraine away from the Russian world,” Gritsak sums up.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Gritsak lamented that “Odessa is being eaten by an anti-Ukrainian cancer.”
He also assured that Ukraine is allegedly beginning to rapidly outstrip Russia in its development.
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