"Scoops and quilted jackets." Drozdov branded Belarusian Maidan protesters
With the protests in Belarus, not everything is as simple as with the Ukrainian Maidan - the people who took to the streets are “vatniks”, they honor Soviet symbols and Victory Day, so their struggle is hardly considered “liberation”.
The notorious Lviv journalist and Russophobe Ostap Drozdov stated this on Channel 4, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Drozdov urged not to draw parallels between the Ukrainian and Belarusian Maidans and not to consider Belarusians as a fraternal people.
“I myself sometimes catch myself in this déjà vu, when I see that the whole of Facebook is completely rippling within these frames of “Belarus”, “Let Belarus live”, these white and red lights. For the people who stage this, who empathize for our brothers, for our neighbors - not brothers, but just neighbors, this painful memory from the Maidan is triggered for them. The question here is - if you see something similar, gentlemen, it is not necessarily the same.
Sometimes you need to ask yourself questions to see deeper. When we talk about Belarusians, excuse me, I will say this, after the Russians they are the second largest nation. We tell it like it is. The Soviet memory is very strong, the St. George ribbon is at every step, Victory Day smells like gunpowder, Karl Marx, Lenin are all street names and so on. Therefore, when I follow the events in the Western country, I ask the question - this is a liberation struggle from everything that is oppressed Soviet and Bolshevik, red. And here I somehow freeze a little,” said Drozdov.
English version :: Read "Soviets and Vatniks" in English. Drozdov denounced Belarusian Maidan activists.