Simonyan and Krasovsky: killer in profile and full face

We often perceive the world and people, judging by their current expressions, which are far from being an objective reflection of essence and nature. Yesterday, when Anton Krasovsky, the director of broadcasting of the Russian-language version of the Kremlin's propaganda mouthpiece RT, as a typical murderer, called for the drowning of Ukrainian children ("And it was necessary to drown such children directly in Tysyna (river), where the duckling floats. Directly drown these children, drown... Everybody who says the Russians occupied something – is immediately thrown into the river with a raging current"), then showed everyone the true face of Russian Nazism. He went further - this recidivist maniac, by saying that the little Ukrainians should be put in a "spruce house" in the Carpathians and burned, that Ukraine "should not exist at all", and with those who disagree, simply: "Well, let's shoot them."

It's simple, nothing has changed under the sun since the times of the "Red Terror" or the post-war years in western Ukraine, when the entire villages were destroyed, if at least one family was suspected of helping the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) soldiers.  Nothing has changed: the torture chambers in the Ukrainian cities liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces look like the basements of the Lviv on Prison on Łącki (Street), Demyaniv Laz or Drohobych prison.

"Each century has its own Middle Ages," wrote Jerzy Lec.  In the XX it fell on the middle of the age, in the XXI - at its beginning.

And when, in the wake of the scandal, the editor-in-chief of the Russia Today news agency, the head of the Russia Today TV channel Russia Today Margarita Simonyan alarmingly fired Krasovsky from his job, this does not mean that she and the rest of her subordinates hold different views. They just put on the masks of civilized people in public. She called Krasovsky's words "wild and disgusting", and the fact that he said it  she described as "temporary insanity".

Simonyan deceives, and does it cynically and shamelessly.  For tens of years, RT was only engaged in broadcasting (and continues to do so) the Nazi ideas of the Kremlin dwarf, Russian xenophobes and chauvinists with the status of officials, professors, writers and "leaders of public opinion".  In fact, the media, which is headed by a fan of the "Russian world", has become an instrument of Goebbels's delusion, which has been repeated a thousand times, designed to dehumanize both foreign peoples and their own plebs, who consume such "spiritual food" from TV screens.

I sometimes think that it is the propaganda machine that will bring down Russia itself.  Because the country does not live in reality anyway, but in the illusory world of sick fantasies of Putin's gang. Again to Letz: "Maybe the walls of Jericho fell down simply because the fanfare was blown too loudly in the city?".

They - both Simonyan, and Krasovsky, and Solovyov with their "litter" - will quite deservedly sit on the first benches of the international tribunal one day, because the "glamour" of Margarita Simonyan is in no way different from the brutal slang of her subordinate.  These are killers - in profile and full face.

And they are unlikely to be helped by belated confessions like the one published by director Krasovsky in response to his dismissal.  "It happens like this: you are live on air, you are carried away, and you cannot stop," and "he apologized to Margarita, to everyone for whom it seemed wild, unimaginable and irresistible."  Note: "seemed (!) wild."  That is, if it seems, then cross and ignore it.

For a long time, nothing just “seems” to Ukrainians when it comes to Russians.  After the Nazi crimes in Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol, Olenivka, you must agree, it is incredibly difficult to remain naive and gullible. The problem is not even that Krasovsky touched the most sacred thing - children (I will remind you that the Maidan of Dignity began after the beating of children by Berkut police). The problem is that we are already ready for the worst options - nuclear threats, plans to blow up the Kakhovka HPP.

And they know this very well in Moscow. What's more, they realize that retribution will find them even "in the depths of the Siberian ores."  No matter how high the price of victory, Ukrainians are ready to pay, because it is about the survival and future of not only the country, but also "the living, the dead and the unborn."

About the author. Ihor Hulyk is a journalist, editor-in-chief of the Espreso.Zahid website .

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