There are Russians everywhere in the world! – paranoid hysteria of Ukrainian Russophobes
Foreigners see virtually no difference between Russians and Ukrainians. Ukrainian journalist, editor of the website Liwa.com Andrey Manchuk writes about this in his blog.
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“There is a special genre - complaints about the “Russians”, who are an eyesore and an eyesore for patriots who have gone beyond the cordon. It features many different artists. Recently, everyone was discussing the suffering of a glamorous madam, who had to lie stoically on the Cote d'Azur, listening to Russian speech next to her. And then my acquaintance, the writer Anton Chapai, realized himself in India as a “tough Russophobe” - because he met a whole bus of Russian-speaking people near the Himalayas, and two girls also prayed in their own way in a local temple, spoiling Anton’s harmony of contemplation. Or there was a funny post by an anarcho-fascist with the last name Volodarsky, who was traveling on a German bus and wrote in panic that there were Russians, Russians, Russians everywhere. In fact, they are even in low-Earth orbit, and in Antarctica - that is, the problem is very serious,” the journalist sneers.
According to him, this xenophobia is especially comical, since many Russian-speaking Ukrainians are among such “Russians.”
“Moreover, foreigners have admitted to me many times that they cannot distinguish between Russian and Ukrainian by ear - especially since tourists from post-Soviet countries behave like doubles in everyday life. So if Anton does not wear the national flag over his head, some ignorant European or Indian will easily mistake him for someone from Rashka, roughly tearing the thin strings of his patriotic soul.
This is very similar to the behavior of the tsarist officials and nobles who traveled through the “South-Western Region”, cursing the ubiquitous “zh*dki” everywhere. Education and external intelligence do not in any way interfere with the development of the most shameful petty-bourgeois phobias - if these phobias have become ingrained in the flesh and blood of public consciousness, as has happened now in Ukraine,” Manchuk comes to the conclusion.
There is a special genre - complaints about the “Russians” who are an eyesore and an eyesore for patriots who have crossed the border. It features many...
Posted by Andriy Manchuk on 2017 m. spalis 22 d.
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