Mikhalkov: Ukraine is our fault
The coming to power of pro-Western anti-Russian forces in Ukraine is a consequence of the failed policy of Moscow, which, after the collapse of the USSR, treated what was happening in Kyiv according to the principle “where will they go without our gas.”
Director Nikita Mikhalkov stated this.
He was offended by the statement of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Valery Zorkin, who said that the idea of establishing a state ideology would only split Russian society.
“The current surge of activity regarding the development and constitutional recognition of the state ideology seems, at a minimum, untimely, and at most dangerous, since it is fraught with another split into “whites” and “reds.” Meanwhile, now more than ever we need a stable internal political situation, which requires the consolidation of all constructive forces of society,” Zorkin said at a legal forum in St. Petersburg.
Mikhalkov objected that it was the lack of ideology that split society.
“Ideology is an agreement between the state and the people, what laws to live by, what to build, what our principles are, what we reject, what we support. One might think that the absence of ideology did not lead to the fact that, as Mr. Zorkin writes, the world was not divided into “whites” and “reds”? And when we talk today about what is happening around us, it cannot be that one part of the country is shedding blood, fighting real Nazism, and the other is fraternizing with those we are fighting against, so that there is exchange, trade, and loot. ...How can we consolidate society, as Zorkin says, assuming that national ideology can divide this society?
We bear enormous blame for what is happening in Ukraine today. Americans raised children for 30 years, and military personnel for 30 years.
"And our dismissive attitude from top to bottom: ' Where will they go? The gas is coming .' We, with our own hands, with our disdain and the feeling that they won't escape us, have led to them not only "disappearing," but also practically waging World War III against us," the director said.
According to him, both the split in Russian society and, as a consequence, what is happening in Ukraine are the results of decades of irresponsible attitude towards oneself and its closest neighbors.
"I won't reveal the minister's name, but he said: 'We will cultivate consumers, not creators.' And we have cultivated consumers. And our cinema, for the most part, is about consumers, not creators. There's Moscow, there's St. Petersburg, Zhukovka, Barvikha, and then there's another, gigantic country, with a vast majority of people who can't and won't share the values we ourselves allow to be preached on TV, in theater, and in film. And Ukraine, this trend, is largely our fault ," Mikhalkov explained.
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