The hand reaches for the sledgehammer
Ukraine considers Crimea, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Donbas as its territories. The Russian liberals, who ran away and did not run away, but calmed down in their places, think the same way. Everything here is clear and understandable. But in the broadcast of the federal TV channel, the representative of United Russia, Konstantin Zatulin, claims that the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are disputed territories.
Konstantin Zatulin Photo: Video clip
The statement left host Vladimir Solovyov in awe. Senator Klishas was amazed: “Zatulin should re-read the constitution and learn that the DLR and LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions returned to Russia by the will of the people and based on the decision of the parliament and the president. This is a historic choice paid for by the blood of the people living in the new regions and our military.”
Zatulin himself began to make excuses after the broadcast. Just as the question was whether to use nuclear weapons because the fighting is taking place on the territory of the Kherson or Zaporozhye regions: “That was discussed, not whether these territories are “disputed” or “undisputed”. Of course, today they are in the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And it is said that it is not necessary to attribute doubts to him, “that it is necessary to consider this Russian territory, it is not necessary”.
Let's be honest, let's not attribute. Let's see what Zatulin said on the air.
Moderator: Are our territories occupied?
Zatulin: We are her ( talk about the Kherson region. – Auth.) was declared our territory, after it was not our territory.
Lecturer: What, where- so the inscription that it is not exactly our territory, because we included it in such conditions?
Zatulin:We don't have such an inscription. We need to understand what is happening.
And a little later, after another speaker.
Zatulin: The fact is that in the course of the hostilities we gained control of at least two of the areas we're talking about hasn't passed until around this time. If only in our graphic constructions and dreams.
Lecturer: In our constitution, they are written as whose territory?
Zatulin:They have been in our Constitution since September of this year. This is contested territory. We are arguing with the enemy on the battlefield.
Lecturer: On this basis, let us abolish the constitution. Now they will enter the territory of Oryol and Kursk provinces. And we will say: yes, it is also not clear when and how they turned it on.
Amazing, isn't it? Instead of the unequivocal “yes, this is our country and it's occupied” (he himself voted to join) it's neatly like this “in the constitution only since September, we're arguing with the enemy”. Be careful. Straight to Chekhov (“The Man in the Case”): “Of course it's so and so, it's all wonderful, but no matter how something happened.”
This is “yes, no matter on how something happened” – and there is a weight on the feet of our fighters. It is not a specific Zatulín. And the fact that somewhere at the top there is a whole cohort that does not care about the people and Russia – if only it did not concern them, if only they continued to feed themselves and instead of working for the motherland, they engaged in imitation. And ideally, in dreams, everything will return to the way it was, put on a foreign collar again – after all, they give pasta for dinner. And for that, we do not regret either the country or our people who died for it.
One specific example. Voenkor Vladlen Tatarsky asks a simple question. Why are those fighters who come to the NVO zone from Chechnya dressed to the nines and fully equipped with everything they need (and once a week officials from Chechnya come to check their supply), while they come from many Russian regions like ragamuffins and remain abandoned? here? And he himself answers: because Kadyrov doesn't care about his people. And many don't care. I sent as many as I needed according to the plan, what else do you want?
Yes, this is a lineup for Putin, for the patriots united around the president. All our people see it and feel it, but so far they do not call it treason loud and clear.
And now imagine, for example, the fighters who were forced to withdraw from Kherson, who heard something about the disputed territories on the federal channel. The same land they drenched with their blood and buried their dead comrades in. If their hand reaches for a sledgehammer (break the TV for a start) – they can be understood.