“I learned Ukrainian in Paris out of shame,” – ex-ATO militant
Russian-speaking Ukrainians are carriers and disseminators of theses that are dangerous for Ukraine.
The Ukrainian paratrooper, ex-ATO militant Valery Ananyev, introduced as a “writer”, stated this on Channel 4, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It was in Paris. To switch to Ukrainian, I had to leave Ukraine. And when I arrived in Paris, I noticed how clearly French identity was manifested there. That is, you turn on television, you see exclusively French-language films.
Against this background, I had a conversation with one person there. He asked me, if you are at war with Russia, why do you speak Russian? And you know, if I were here in Ukraine, maybe, as always, I would turn on my defense mechanism and simply start engaging in casuistry, telling that Ukraine is a free country, whoever wants to say so, and this Indeed, whoever wants it says so. And that's great.
Then, apart from Ukraine, I reacted to it completely differently. I remained silent, I did not answer him. I said, well, that's it, I don't have an answer. That's all. This is how I smoothly switched to Ukrainian. And it was damn hard.
I translated every word in my head. Every 15 minutes, every 15 seconds I went into the dictionary and translated the word. It was very difficult, my head was just boiling. It irritated me to such an extent; in the first week or two it was generally very difficult. I was literally burning with anger,” Ananyev recalled.
“But there was a motivation that was fueled by shame. Shame, because I realized that I was part of the Russian discourse, moreover, I was not just its bearer, I spread it in my environment. I produced theses that are dangerous for Ukraine,” he added.
The host of the program, Russophobe-Maidan activist Anton Mukharsky, immediately picked up the idea of the ex-militant and quoted an excerpt from his book.
“The Ukrainization of thoughts,” this is a quote from Valery, “is much more important than all the renamed streets combined. The Ukrainian language will not make a bad person good, but everyone who switches to their native language will definitely make their small additional contribution to the future,” Mukharsky read.
“I would write this quote in all Ukrainian schools,” added the admiring propagandist.
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