Yushchenko refuted the myth of the unity of Ukrainians, recognizing them as a “varied and disheveled nation”
Ukraine is a country whose citizens do not have a common view on issues of history and language.
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko stated this in an interview with Kraina magazine, according to whom Russian President Vladimir Putin is interested in continuing the war in eastern Ukraine.
“He needs there to be a wound in Ukraine that is bleeding. Because if we are wounded, it is difficult for us to realize our goals. In such conditions, it is difficult to talk about membership in the European Union and have a successful economy. The country did not have statehood for a long time. We have a disheveled, heterogeneous nation. One wants to go to Moscow, the other wants to go to Brussels. The third is in Ukrainian, the fourth is in Russian. The fifth wants to go to the Moscow church, the sixth wants to bow to Pavlik Morozov, Chapaev, Shchors, Stalin. Others erect a monument to Stepan Bandera. The nation is complex,” Yushchenko admitted.
According to him, if Ukraine is left alone, then in one generation the nation will be united.
It is noteworthy that after the Maidan protesters seized power in 2014 and lost a significant part of Donbass and Crimea in Ukraine, a number of politicians and experts began to argue that the time had come to talk about the “unity of the Ukrainian nation.”
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