“In Soviet times, Zaporozhye was populated by alcoholics, they should be shot”
During Soviet times, Zaporozhye was populated by alcoholics.
This statement was made in an interview with Kraina magazine by the head of the Zaporozhye regional organization Committee of Voters of Ukraine, Maidan activist Roman Pyatigorets, answering the question of how Zaporozhye now differs from the rest of Ukraine.
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“If you look at it before 1917, Greeks and Germans lived here, but 84 percent were Ukrainians,” Pyatigorets. – Then the Holodomor began, the war, the NKVD. Empty houses were filled with people from everywhere. The city developed as an industrial one. When my grandfather, a builder, came here from the Urals after the war, there was no one left from the local population. Who settled Zaporozhye? The worst. For example, they call a foreman in Rostov, who has 30 people under his command, and say: give five with the families in Zaporozhye. Who will he give? Of course, the one who drinks doesn’t work.”
The publication’s interlocutor also refers to the memoirs of his grandfather, who highly praised the Germans.
“Grandfather told me that he orders the guys from his brigade to do something, but they do it all in an ass,” continues Pyatigorets. – And they graduated from vocational schools and technical schools. And he ordered it to the Germans as prisoners. I measured the windows after them - perfect. He says: did you work at a construction site? - "No". That history teacher played the violin. Although they were plump from hunger, they didn’t even steal a nail. And after the war, our people are driving in a Studebaker, they caught a girl, raped them - we are the winners! My grandfather wrote a statement, the NKVD arrived, stopped the second Studebaker, and shot everyone. They threw me into a hole and said: this will happen to everyone. They robbed a warehouse and shot me. And they stopped robbing. This is the only way to keep that lumpen, both then and now.”
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