fulcrum
Greatest Leader
Tämä juttu näyttää vielä suuremmalta scheisseltä. Gessenin mielestä, tuomalla esiin Tsekkoslovakian, Itävalta-Unkarin jne, Putin vihjaisi ettei mitään Ukrainaa olekaan ja maa olisi edelleen jaettavissa.
Katsotaanpa mitä Putin tarkalleen sanoi tuossa kohdassa:
But I can’t agree that Ukraine is a damned land; please don't use this expression with regard to Ukraine. Ukraine is a long-suffering land; it’s a very complicated community and a long-suffering one in the direct sense of the word. Nationalism and even neo-Nazism are experiencing a resurgence in western Ukraine. But you know well the history of this territory and its people. Some of these territories were part of Czechoslovakia, some of Hungary, some of Austro-Hungary and some of Poland, where they were never full-fledged citizens. You know, something has always been growing in their heart of hearts.
Some people seem to believe that it is this circumstance – because these territories were former possessions of several present-day EU countries – that imbues them with some special European substance. That they were second-rate citizens in those states seems to have been forgotten, but this still lurks in their historical memory, under the crust, deep down in their hearts, see? It’s where their nationalism comes from, I think.
Gessenin tulkinta on täyttä fantasiaa. Eihän tuosta ole millään aasinsilloilla luettavissa mitään tuollaista.
Gessenin olisi kannattanut lainata toista kohtaa samalta kyselytunnilta, siitä olisi saanut paljon mehukkaampia juttuja irti:
The intention to split Russia and Ukraine, to separate what is essentially a single nation in many ways, has been an issue of international politics for centuries. If you recall the statements uttered by the White movement leaders, you’ll see that regardless their political disagreements with the Bolsheviks, they never had even the slightest thought about a possible division between Ukraine and Russia, as they always perceived them as part of a common, united space and a single nation. And they were absolutely right.
OMG! Putin puhuu Venäjästä ja Ukrainasta erottamattomana yhtenä valtiona!
