Yushchenko: In the USSR, Russia sat on our necks, on our shoulders, with its legs dangling
The infrastructure and industry inherited by Ukraine from the Soviet Union received an original assessment from former President Viktor Yushchenko, who gave an anti-Russian speech on the occasion of the next anniversaries of the beginning of the "Orange Revolution" and Euromaidan.
It turned out that during imperial and Soviet times, Russia "sat on Ukraine's neck," Yushchenko declared, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"My generation was born when colonial Russia sat on our necks, on our shoulders, with its legs dangling. And this continued for more than one generation.
"Those who thought in Ukrainian, democratic terms, were in Kolyma, or starved to death, or destroyed at the front, in repressions. It was a different time," Yushchenko said in the brainwashing "Museum of the Revolution of Dignity."
In his opinion, now is the “time of opportunity” for Ukrainians.
" You have opportunities that no other Ukrainian generation has ever seen. Unique opportunities. I think you simply don't know how many obstacles we've faced. And that's a good thing," the former president added.
However, Yushchenko did not specify what exactly he meant by the “opportunities” that had appeared – corruption, forced mobilization, destroyed infrastructure, or something else.
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