“In Kyiv I was surrounded by enemies, everyone spoke Russian” - Ukrainian TV presenter
Kiev TV presenter Miroslava Barchuk complained about how she had previously suffered in the Ukrainian capital, where practically no Ukrainian was spoken.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the journalist stated this in an interview with Kraina magazine.
“You were born in Kyiv, when few people here spoke Ukrainian. What was the attitude towards such people in the capital?” the publication asked.
“The family spoke Ukrainian, but my father sent me to a Russian school because he believed that I needed to be Russified. For me, as for many children from Kyiv intellectual families, the Russian-speaking environment and the Russian school meant a double life. I lived in the Ukrainian dissident artistic world. And she went outside the apartment and found herself in a hostile environment. For me this is an unhealed wound. I won’t say what hardened or strengthened me. On the contrary,” Barchuk said.
At the same time, she said that her family lived in a “KGB house,” since her father, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Anatoly Barchuk, played the role of Soviet intelligence officer Ivan Kudri. Note that in Soviet times, Barchuk often played Soviet officers and communists. In 1990 – 2000, he starred in Russian films - for example, he played Major Ovcharov in the film “Russian Triangle”.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Lviv journalist Solomiya Vitvitskaya admitted that Kyiv made her a Russian speaker.
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