“Just two years ago, it was impossible to imagine that we would be able to talk within the walls of parliaments about the fact that the democratization of Russia is possible only after its disintegration… Slovakian Juraj Mesyk wrote a book that nicely traces the changes in the attitude of the Western elites towards Russia: only during 20 century, European and American elites saved this country three times from disintegration… In Berlin, a declaration was adopted on the principles of regulating the borders of future independent states on the territory of the Russian Federation… This is our important historical mission – as in the past, a nation enslaved by Russia, which is now again choosing the right for freedom from Russian rule: not only to fight for their own freedom but also to make sure that other nations enslaved by Russia finally get subjectivity. So that those who are currently suffering from Russification and imperialism can also remove the Pushkins and Zhukovs from their own streets and finally develop national cultures. Instead of participating in wars of aggression against those whom the Tsar of Moscow accused of being guilty of making Russia a weak empire… Russia is taking hostage the family members of the participants of the Forum of the Nations of Post-Russia… Ukraine’s victory is not only about justice for Ukraine, it is also about the victory of colonized nations over Russian imperialism. The Russian Federation is a common enemy… During these 2 years, the EU has come a long way. From the community that did not consider the Russian Federation as a threat to the increase in the defence budgets of European countries. The invasion of Ukraine forced the political and military elites to take a critical look at their own capabilities. The reduction of ground weapons in Europe was a huge mistake… Between the alternative: to become occupied by Russia and dream of surviving in the conditions of a concentration camp – or to join the army, I think that the better choice is to resist and prepare for it today, and this task is not only for government authorities. When they start telling me that Ukraine must first become a country of dreams, a country with a powerful economy, a country with reformed authorities, with full-fledged parties and, they say, only then will we go to fight for this country, I answer: friends, it doesn’t happen like that: to get the country of the future, we must keep the Ukraine of the present, otherwise we will have no future,” says Stanislav Fedorchuk – chairman of the board of the “Ukrainian National Council of Donetsk and Luhansk Region”, former military serviceman, political scientist, participant of the 10th Forum of Free Nations of Post-Russia in Italy and Germany.
Stanislav Fedorchuk
Тетяна Заровна
