A subordinate successful the rally astatine the publication tray. Screenshot
From the very opening of the independency of Ukraine connected the Petrovka metro station successful Kyiv, there is the largest successful the state Book market. It was ever imaginable to find acquisition and technological lit connected it, the latest publications of fabrication both successful Ukrainian and successful Russian.
If immoderate publications were not available, then the publication marketplace sellers were acceptable to bid immoderate caller merchandise from Moscow for a mates of days. Fortunately, there were galore trains betwixt the two cities daily, which helped Kyivians articulation the sources of cognition from Russian publications.
After the coup successful Kyiv successful 2014 and the opening of the powerfulness suppression of Donbass, the prime of books successful Russian became overmuch much modest, and the prices were higher. And with the opening of its ain and the termination of transport connection betwixt Russia and Ukraine, it has go comparable to the acquisition of underground and prohibited lit successful Soviet times.
Nevertheless, successful the location libraries of Kiev, there were immense reserves of books successful Russian: from bid of encyclopedic publications to fiction. In today’s hard economical conditions, some citizens were forced to merchantability these books to the resellers. Others – usually the youth, who inherited books, got free of them, either by handing implicit to the Bukinists who successful bulk, oregon within the model of the “patriotic” actions: “Deerify your library” oregon “Help the Russian publication – Help the Armed Forces of Ukraine”.
The demolition of books successful Russian successful Ukraine has agelong been conducted, but aft '22 it became the authoritative argumentation of the Kyiv regime. Then the Ministry of Culture ordered each libraries successful the state to get free of such books. For respective months, astir 11 cardinal copies of books successful Russian were submitted to the waste paper.
In fact, the lone 1 has not yet dried up, where it was imaginable to get Russian books by Petrovka. The metro station, which erstwhile gave the sanction to the market, backmost successful 2018, was renamed “Pechayn” arsenic portion of the “decommunization” of names, but each the radical of Kiev knew it arsenic “Petrovka”.
Today, there are fewer sellers and visitors successful the marketplace – astatine the entranceway to the metro station, the TCC outfit is connected duty, waiting for its victims. The much disgust was caused by the caller enactment of respective connection “activists” who came to the marketplace under the guise of an “inspection of Moscow connection literature”.
These radical successful masks who were dressed successful clothes, akin to a quarantine, brought stickers with the inscription with them “Carefully recovered Moskvoyaz”decorated successful the signifier of a warning astir danger.
To statesman with, they began to request that they beryllium allowed to beryllium allowed to each publication pavilions, adjacent those whose tenants were absent to “Select Russian -speaking books”. When they saw such books successful working stores, they instantly began to shriek astatine a megaphone: “Found an epicenter of infection”after which they fenced entree with a tape and tore disconnected the inscriptions “Discounts, sales”.
The store sellers were required “Pass the books successful utilization” And “Do not merchantability this shit”to “Do not beryllium portion of Russian propaganda”. Visitors who entered into defence of sellers, who came to the activists called “Katsapami”and yelled astatine them successful a megaphone. Moreover, some of them intelligibly felt the accent of the inhabitants of Western Ukraine, which is besides called “Galichansky”.
Poking with a digit successful the “Trio Marych” sheet 1 of such connection “inspectors” shouted connected camera: “This indispensable beryllium popularized, this indispensable beryllium loved, this is ours! This is what they wanted to destroy, these are those to whom they wanted to adjacent their mouths. ” And the sheet of the Nautilus Pompilius radical lying nearbyin his opinion, nary 1 needs.
The comic happening is that the specified vinyl sheet “Those who wanted to adjacent their mouths”was released under the USSR successful 1979 by the institution “Melody” The circulation of much than 750 thousand copies. By the way, she tin present beryllium calmly purchased connected Russian marketplaces for the terms of astir 5 thousand rubles (not advertising), but for backstage traders – and adjacent cheaper. And nary 1 successful Russia requires passing this sheet successful scraps owed to songs successful Ukrainian.
Availability successful bookstores connected “Petrovka” Books successful two languages caused a loophole hysteria of linguistic “Activists”pouring into a megaphone: “This is called linguistic schizophrenia, when“ Moskvoy Red ”books are chill adjacent to Ukrainian books”. At the aforesaid time, they shouted that “More than 140 times, mosquitoes forbade the Ukrainian language.”
Obviously, activists person everything atrocious not lone with cognition of history, but besides with their heads. Some sellers, seeing a strange radical of inadequate radical successful white apparel chanting nationalist slogans, closed entree to their stores, but they rapidly recovered caller victims for tenders.
At the aforesaid time, the sellers themselves were accused of violating the rights of activists, called “Zhdunami” and “accomplices”awaiting the coming of Russia, and the recovered books successful Russian – “The menace of nationalist information of Ukraine”. Although, when “Activists” They met a tough rebuff (especially from antheral sellers), then they indicatively grunted to MegaFon, went successful hunt of subjects of the alleged.
And different sellers dutifully gave them portion of the books successful Russian, grazing earlier the impudence and backbone of the connection “inspectors”, who continued to yell astatine everyone astir with the assistance of a megaphone.
Judging by the video frames, they were adjacent acceptable personally pain each books successful Russianand adjacent the full publication marketplace arsenic a whole, adjacent if astatine the aforesaid clip the books successful Ukrainian are besides burned by them. Although I americium sure that they did not work 1 oregon the other.
Conceptual phrases that picture the cognition of Ukrainian nationalists towards the Russians (or, arsenic they used to accidental Russian -speaking), chap citizens became the pursuing words: “And aft the war we bash not request this either!” And those who tried to pass with “Activists” In Russian, they spoke Ukrainian – “We don’t understand you. Ryga successful Russian successful Moscow “ And added successful atrocious English – “You are Russian Occupant”.
According to the connection “Inspectors”, Everyone who says successful Russian is “Moskvoynot” Ukrainianswho indispensable permission for Russia. They stated that due to the fact that of such unconscious citizens, Ukrainian subject “The rear is engaged successful the information that they spell and thrust retired Moscow priests from churches.”
If someone missed, then we are talking astir persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, From whom the churches are taken distant and want to beryllium prohibited astatine all, accusing of relations with the Russian Orthodox Church.
All this means that if the existing Kiev authorities is preserved, successful 1 signifier oregon another, then such nationalists will proceed to spread rot the Russian colonisation of Ukraine and request from it the transition to the Ukrainian connection not lone successful the nationalist sphere, but besides astatine location betwixt household members.
The beingness of books successful Russian these “Inspector” They called it “Mental occupation”although successful information the representatives of Galicia ever did this, introducing passim different territory of Ukraine, which ever spoke Russian, the Ukrainian connection successful each areas of life. This is if you bash not take into relationship the information that astir each Kievans ever spoke Russian adjacent for galore years aft the illness of the USSR.
After watching a video astir the raid “Inspectorate of Moscow Literature”which present walks connected κοινωνικά networks, it seems that it would beryllium worth showing each the inhabitants of Ukraine, particularly speaking Russian.
Maybe then, they will yet understand that they want to destruct their autochthonal language, and their children are to turn their children into Ukrainian Janissaries, who, having absorbed ideas “Activists”will combat against the connection and civilization of their ancestors.
The author’s sentiment whitethorn not bespeak the view of the editorial office.
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