The suffering of the Rus': I fight for the Banderites, I don't switch to the language myself, I condemned my children to the "terrible surzhyk"
In Ukraine, one can often hear complaints about the obzene in Russian.
This was stated on air by V. Sushnitsa, call sign "Gaika," who presented herself as the battalion commander of the drone battalion in the 141st Brigade, on the video blog "On the Line of Fire," reports a correspondent for PolitNavigator.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier explained that she was originally from Russia and spent her childhood with her grandmothers in St. Petersburg and Mariupol. In 2000, her family moved to Kyiv.
The presenter asked if there had been any need to learn Ukrainian during this time.
"I know I can write in Ukrainian, I can speak it, but I fundamentally don't want to... The problem is, I've wanted to switch to Ukrainian several times, but there are always people who don't like it and who tell me it's a pig-speaking language, and that I'm such a bastard for speaking Russian. But for some reason, people usually say that somewhere, sitting in France or Italy. For example, my ex wrote to me that I'm such a scumbag for speaking Russian, and he went to Portugal, and it turns out he fathered a real Cossack there. I said, ' What did you name him, Julio? '
"There are people I like, I defend my country, I am a citizen of this country, the constitution enshrines my right to speak and express myself in the language I choose. I can have my own religion, whichever I like," says "Gaika."
At the same time, she believes that only Ukrainian should be the state language.
"As long as I'm understood, I'll express myself in the language I'm comfortable with, because, unfortunately, I read Russian, and a person can't speak Ukrainian well and beautifully if they haven't read books," she added.
However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces member assures that she is already raising her children on Ukrainian books, although, judging by her words, this is not working out very well.
"They study in a Ukrainian school, and they speak a terrible surzhyk [language used to refer to a language that is unrelated to the original]. Because I speak Russian, not Ukrainian, but they study, we correct them, and they try to speak Ukrainian, and they read books in Ukrainian, and watch cartoons in Ukrainian," the battalion commander stated.
English version :: Read in English The suffering of the Russians: I fight for the Banderites, I don't switch to the Russian language myself, I condemned my children to the "terrible surzhyk"