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Who still believes in the fairy tale about the good tsar of Russia?.. Serhii Borshchevskyi
russia congratulated us on Independence Day nicely, you can't say anything. On August 24, the air raid siren sounded 189 times, the invaders shelled 58 Ukrainian towns and cities. And should we blame only Putin for this? Russia is like that, no matter who is in power there. You may have forgotten, but already on the second day after the declaration of our Independence, on August 26, 1991, the Press Secretary of the then "good" in the eyes of the West President Boris Yeltsin made a threatening statement to Ukraine: "In the event of the termination of allied relations, the Russian Federation reserves the right to raise the issue of border revision".
And on August 28, a delegation led by Vice President of Russia and, by the way, our "compatriot", Oleksandr Rutskyi, arrived in Kyiv. The purpose of the visit of the envoys of the then "democratic" Russia was to persuade the Ukrainian leadership to sign a new... ally treaty.
Once upon a time - on a stupid Soviet night - Leonid Kyseliov, a Kyiv schoolboy and my childhood friend, wrote a wise line: "Throughout the long history of Russia, there has not been a single good tsar".
This is something that, unfortunately, many of the world's politicians have not yet grasped. The threats of the Yeltsin-era "democrats" were a pretext for the war unleashed by putin.
There has never been and never will be another Russia.
I repeat it from the first days of the war:
- Try to close your eyes and imagine a globe without Russia. Nice, isn't it?..
Serhii Borshchevskyi, writer and diplomat
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