weapons, will be a great authority in a country that is such an important ally of ours, of course it all sounds very beautiful, and in the past people who spoke like that, and they still speak, wrote editorials for the soviet communist press, it was a special talent, in general, i would somehow somehow pull these people out of facebook by the ears, by the nose , and send them to 1982, where there was a headline in the pravda newspaper, a headline in the izvesti newspaper, and they always always explained that... let's say , if there is no bread, then this is a huge harvest , agricultural workers of the smolensk region , it is beautiful, this too can only cause envy, the ability to call black white, white black, not to see something in the eye, there is no significance, after all, this means that the idea is simple , that if valery zaluzhnyk, according to sociology... is volodymyr

zelenskyi's competitor in the illusory presidential elections, will not be in ukraine, then his rating will decrease, the president's rating, as i understood it, will increase, i don't even want to think in such categories, because first of all, i don't understand why i should talk about ratings in a country where presidential elections may not be held for many years and where the enemy is hunting the sitting president to destroy him, why not, i should be interested, for the president of ukraine to emerge. to deprive us of the current president so that we don't have a president, this is one moment, the second moment, the popularity rating of the hard-working, this is the rating of the person with whom the vast majority of ukrainians associate the preservation of the country's statehood in the most responsible for us in 2022, when to many... it seemed that ukraine could

disappear in a few weeks, remember? so. i will tell you honestly that now this danger is not less, but people's perception of the level of danger is different. and this is an important thing, because what is very important is not what happens in reality, but what happens in the heads of people, especially in the heads of ukrainian people, because they know how to perceive reality in such a special way, which does not always coincide with the reality that is under... their window, but on the other side, which is relevant window to the rating. yes, there is no, there is no significance, in which place valery zaluzhny will be, the rating of a mythologized, how to say it, player, he, valerich is not even a player, he never once said that he would run for president, no never showed political ambitions, never quarreled with the president. there the player is not

an unworthy player, the image of the player is not worthy, the image of the worthy will not be harmed, even if you send him as an ambassador to, i don't know, to cape verde somewhere, remember, the russians wanted send, god, we even remember such names, where she, where she went or not, did not go, did not go, but somewhere there is, she was forbidden to speak and give interviews, because she. you don't need to cry, you need to rejoice , it doesn't matter, let's forget it, it's generally something from my intimate experiences, in short , the rating, the rating will not suffer from this , how important it is that the general heads the embassy, ​​well, in principle, well, in principle, if we nevertheless, we believe that such a highlight of our state is that... you can, how

could i tell you, now i will try intelligently to express myself, but i will have to tell an anecdote, when the pianist rubinstein was walking down the street, he met one of his friends, who was known as a music critic, and this friend said to him: remind me, i have a concert, i will play on the grand piano, come with me, even if you listen to how i play, rubinstein says, but what will i do at your concert, i'm a pianist. he says, will you hand me the sheet music? well , they came, they are friends, so the critic is gray-haired, so something is playing there, a pathetic beethoven symphony, tatatam, and rubinstein turns over the notes, and tomorrow there was a review , the next day in a good newspaper it was written that it was an absolutely amazing concert, the best concert of the century, the one who was supposed to play the grand piano flipped the notes, and the one who was supposed to turn the notes over, he played the grand piano, the ukrainian administration is all set precisely on such an idea, the one who has to play on the royal. turns over

the notes, and the one who has to turn over the notes, as a rule, plays the piano, not showing skill, but from the point of view of the ukrainian voter. if a person does not play the royal well, then let her play, because she'll learn, that's the idea, she'll learn, it's just here bababah, here ba babah, and yes, in four or five years she will break a number of grand pianos, i don't care, by the way i don't care, it could be another musical instrument, it's just that in the anecdote it's a grand piano, but i'm just the first source, and in the end this royal, well, it starts with... it becomes clear that you could just vote for a mechanical piano, but in any case, this is a recipe for any civil servant now, so i don't see anything so excessive in the fact that the former the commander-in-chief of the armed forces will be headed

by the embassy in london, i just so much hope that some deputy minister of foreign affairs has not already been appointed as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, this is progress, that means. we are approaching some kind of balance, the understanding is that in some places, well, certain structures should be managed by people who can distinguish a tank from a machine gun, ugh, and in general, what do you think of the trend for military personnel to become politicians, diplomats, and so on , someone in ukraine fears this and says: oh, no, no, the history with pinochet should teach us and in general the world of everything else. of course, only pop actors or television actors can be politicians. performers, because this work is definitely a straight path, a straight path to political success, such a straight line, even, but military personnel are not, well, what are you, if a person cannot sing comic verses a couple

of months before the start of political activity, like her manage the state, you don't need to insult us here, seriously, the question is... is a person a television actor, a general, or a banker, the question is how much political skill does that person have, if you don't have skill, you won't become an actor, if you don't have skill, you won't become a politician, people, a voter can just vote for a certain person, vote for a leading actor in he can't vote for the tv series, it's a pity, but you and i always voted for brad pitt there, he would have played in the best ukrainian tv series, but if he voted... for the president or for the deputy, he can, and this person can learn how to, yes and don't teach how to be wrong both to be politically gifted and not to be politically gifted, and this is an absolutely obvious story, that is why in the history of various states there were absolutely brilliant generals who

became politicians and saved their countries, the best example of all times and peoples is general charles de gaulle, and so on there was a prominent politician, emperor napoleon. an actor in any case, you can treat him differently, i understand that emmanuel macron does not treat him differently, i have such a suspicion, but it is like this, there was a wonderful politician, general dwight eisenhower, he was a professional military man, but there were people who did, and by the way, general agusta pinachet was also a professional military man who became a strong political figure under the conditions of an authoritarian ... state, i am absolutely not in favor of generaluchet, but the fact that he is a person with political flair , this is a fact, there were other generals who led countries, lost power, brought these countries to the tsugunder, you can remember them, they are in many countries, there are such

examples, well, again, not until the moment when a person leads the country, you you never know ugh, in fact there is nothing negative about electing a person with a military education or with a general's rank as the head of state, the question is only how this person will cope with the challenge, because on the one hand, military education gives a person the opportunity to plan management, well, that's... just her level of competence, on the other hand, military education does not involve understanding the variability of the situation and respect for other opinions, general esenhauer was capable of such respect, general degaulle not so much, despite all his abilities, he was

a person, you can say, who perceived himself exclusively as a leader, and this is also an important moment, just france can at the moment , for two moments, when general de gaulle played such a... king in its recent history , just such a leader was needed, well, again still, these are different things, we saw that in israel, let's say, the elite is half made up of generals, they are successful. politicians are completely unsuccessful, there are people who change the very situation in israel politically, there are people who have headed the general staff there for many years, are considered an example strong professional military, then when it comes to politics, absolutely everything is destroyed, all their authority, because it turns out that as generals, they were in their place, as politicians, no, if, if you ask me about valery zaluzhno, it is exclusively depends on what will happen if he is engaged in politics. and will become the president of ukraine. can it happen? of course it can. of course

it will. someone will be the president of ukraine after the end of the war and after the presidential elections. it is unlikely to be the current president. well, i'll tell you straight away honestly. some person will most likely win the incumbent president, even if he is a participant in the election. this is the law of war. but i don't know if it will be valery zaluzhnyi. it can be. there are completely different options, it may not be in 2020 , the fourth, in 2034, you see, we are not, there are no real, i would say, prerequisites for the war to end in some near future in nature, again- after all, the ukrainians are inventing something for themselves, but there is no need to invent, russia is not going to do this to end the war, there is no intention to hold any negotiations, the most we can do is to push it back to our... borders one day and there we will fight further, ugh,

will it be possible in this situation to cancel martial law and hold elections, well , in principle, anything can happen, in israel , military local elections were held in the conditions of the war against hamas, but the war against hamas is taking place on the territory of the gas sector, on the territory of israel, when we will wage a war, say on the border, in our there will be some kind of buffer zone there, we will know what we can hold some kind of elections on the entire territory of the country, of course, we will take into account missile attacks, drones there, all this will continue, well, then it will be possible to at least talk about it, but we have to live until then, and again, not everyone will live to see it, i.e. those who will survive should talk about it , not us, we don't know who, it's a lottery, we don't know which of us will be able to participate in this discussion, because we have to, well, to be honest, and i can die there in a week from or a year after the missile attack, and those who are on us those watching can die, well, it's war, you have to be sober and not think about it. that everyone there is eternal, and that this projectile will definitely hit someone else, not you, no,

maybe you, this is a normal situation during the war, mr. vitaly, about the elections and their prospects, or rather, not our prospects have already talked, but in the russian federation , what they call elections, should happen very soon, and on the eve of all this , quite interesting things are happening, maybe i made it up to myself, you will refute it now, but it is a series embassies, that means... authoritative western countries inform their citizens: be careful, and many remember how exactly putin secured his rise to power, justified the second chechen campaign in general and actually mobilized a large number of russians for it, and here the question arises, something similar is happening now, that is , can the fsb resort to such actions in order to justify for the russian society in the future the continuation of the svo and the need to elect putin himself. i think several hours therefore, there was a report that the federal security service, ugh, arrested two citizens

of kazakhstan, ugh, who were preparing a terrorist act in a moscow synagogue, and this is already news, that is, some events are taking place there, they do not necessarily have to be recorded, they can be related to the fact that they can also lose control, uh, the fact that they can prepare a terrorist attack in order to... put people around putin, this is also absolutely their technique, they may want the russians to see that not everything is so safe, oh you don't need to relax, relax, otherwise you somehow relaxed, you don't feel the war , you think that all this is not happening here, you don't perceive putin as a guarantor of your, your safety and survival, but you should perceive it, and we will make you right away, now something like you let's turn the clock, it's absolutely logical , especially since they already did it, but they did it

as many as 24 years ago, 25, so i think that many who remember how it all happened, already at such an adult age a whole generation of people grew up, imagine what people who are 25 years old, sometimes 30, they just don't remember this whole atmosphere of horror, huh. they have lived there for 30 years in conditions of relative stability, no large-scale terrorist actions, no explosions of buildings, a war somewhere in ukraine, well , of course, we will soon defeat everyone, that means. er, we will destroy it, and we are all right, we need it , it means an additional level of danger, it can be involved, that is, if such a decision is made, there, as you remember, the secretary of the security council, this is general patrushev, who was the organizer of all these explosions of buildings , nothing has changed, even the same people, and i think that mr. patrushev has this bag with exogen in his house, which he simply

took out of the closet and carried to the stadium, or whether his bodyguard carried it, he does not have meaning, that is, you don’t even need to order anything, because he... since the days of ryazan, i think that mr. patryshov hid this package with exogen at home somewhere away from his wife, and now i can use it calmly, uh, and that’s it , finally, let us remind you that today is march 9, and ukraine is marks the birthday of taras hryhorovych shevchenko, these are shevchenko days, these are events related to the commemoration of his memory. after all, the signing of the shevchenko prize, and we already know about the laureates. i have the following question for you: well , the russian federation appropriated a huge bunch of artists, ukrainian artists in particular, among the artists, everything that falls on the head of ripin, pymonenko, it is permissible, and malevich, for example, this

applies to artists of many and different arts , but shevchenko is not, shevchenko... they are fighting against him, shooting monuments, that for them, this is the number one enemy, not just some unloved son of the russian empire, relatively speaking, but this is the enemy, in soviet times, the work of taras shevchenko was taught in the course of russian literature, he was there, well, it ’s just that in ukraine there are these pages were turned because he was familiar with ukrainian literature, shevchenko was perceived as a russian writer throughout the territory of the soviet union. yes, they are, this was also an important moment, i am not sure that he is an enemy for them, because the monument to shevchenko is in moscow, they don't, they dismantle it, they don't rename the streets, avenues , which are named after shevchenko, i think that they simply have another shevchenko,

shevchenko, who was an academician of the st. petersburg academy of sciences, a friend of russian democrats, and such a shevchenko, let's say, was created by the bolsheviks, because as you understand, such a shevchenko never existed, and the same russian democrats did not like shevchenko very much, ugh, such a shevchenko is absolutely beneficial to them, because why would they destroy him, they still hope use it after are occupying ukraine in their usual perspective, as russian ukrainian writers, as a part of this great russian civilization, just people who wrote in diak. so, from our point of view, the fight against shevchenko is a kind of main task of russian propaganda, and it seems to me that the main task of russian propaganda is to rethink shevchenko, well, they always tried to do exactly that, to rethink shevchenko, because by and large they

everywhere people were needed who were such, you know, such little pushkins, that's what i had to be a great pushkin for the entire soviet union, again, this is the soviet idea, all this, and then there are little pushkin, shevchenko, dzhambul in kazakhstan, yakub kolos or yanka kupala in belarus, so that it becomes clear that pushkin is our everything, and these are such people who are somewhere in the shadows, well, those little funny ones. and what we allow to be, well, and it didn’t start right away either, as you understand, pushkin was returned to the iconostasis of soviet culture in 137, when everything was burning people, shooting people in basements by the thousands and in general no one knew whether he would return home

or not come to him at night, they organized such a celebration of pushkin's anniversary, so... i think that russian propaganda is dangerous in that it mystifies reality, mystifies people's images, and mystifies creativity, because a large part of shevchenko's heritage was either banned or, i would say, overemphasized, well, in soviet times, it was always strange to me, in principle, everything was not about shevchenko... but about the russian empire, about the essence of russian statehood , but it was somehow perceived that he fights with the capitalists, with the bourgeois, as a people. we the people, now, you see, shevchenko's dreams have come true, when the ukrainian and russian proletarians united, and now everything is beautiful. that's all, everything that happened, we read the will, because it was executed

by comrade lenin and stalin. and this is absolutely not true. well, by the way, i would still like to tell you that i think there are a lot of worthy laureates this year. shevchenko prize and our colleagues who shot the film 20 days in mariupol, which is now world famous, and the director, we wish him good luck at the upcoming oscars, and the director ivan orivskyi, together with his colleagues who staged this famous play the witch of konotop, have you seen it, no, i haven't, because you can't see it, it's not, it's like that amazing show, it's coming, everyone has seen it, tickets. no, i'm always checking this whole , how can i say it, possibility, well, there's no possibility, well , i'll wait, i'll see, i think now there will be even more attention, so there's a chance

to see her, at least i hope so , but i would like to say especially about the shevchenko award to jamal, because i believe that the fact that she received this award for her album kerim is... a continuation of the shevchenko tradition in its purest form, because shevchenko, by and large, reproduces the ukrainian nation, in conditions when this ukrainian nation had no real political and cultural importance to recreate itself. and what we got in general is a construct, a construct, without which the ukrainians would not be what we know, this man with his creativity, these poems, this by creating his world. actually created a world for an entire people, huh, and you could always understand who was ukrainian, then over time , just by looking at the houses in which there was a kobzar, or

a book, or a portrait, or both a book and a portrait, and this is an absolutely amazing thing, i didn’t understand , not a ukrainian, because why did these russian democrats understand this, for them these were just bad poems, yes, they simply did not understand what this was about, and this is exactly the moment when in poetry just... one feels this the spirit of a nation trying to preserve itself and become stronger, a very rare thing, by the way, in world culture, when poetry is not just an effort to express yourself, your world, share your emotions, let's say, paint some kind of picture, that is , to be preserved, to develop, to become a program, by the way , here is picasso's guernica, a very good example of such painting too. when an artist creates something that is essentially a reflection of the soul of a nation in its civilizational sense of the word, and not just a picture to be looked at or

painted. and here is jamal by and large in this album, this is exactly the same opportunity to construct the crimean-tatar cultural world in conditions where the crimean tatars themselves are deprived of such an opportunity, they are under occupation, they are actually marginalized by occupation. power is not the first time, because it happens periodically there once in a certain historical period since the annexation of crimea by catherine ii, not even by vladimir putin, and here someone simply takes this culture as such and creates a work of art from it, which obviously will not allow the crimean tatars to forget about myself, as shevchenko did not allow ukrainians to forget about himself, i don't want to now of course to compare the scale, i compare the tradition itself, because it was very strange for me in 2023 to meet an example

of such creativity, which i thought was already lost, which is a feature, not even of the 20th , but of the 19th century, because it is such a large-scale task that we once perceived, you know, in some great... classics of literature, or it could be at the level of a song, this is also true, of some, piaf and france, or omali rodríguez, who there created, reconstructed the fado genre in portugal, we are for this, in principle this we can see the portuguese soul, the soul, through the re-construction of the genre, that is, when a singer can understand the soul of her own people so much that this people perceives their soul through her songs. if we need to understand what france looks like, we listen to ed and the french listen, to the question that they did not know this before edif, obviously not, and the

same thing happens with ... this work of jamala, and it is about a small nation, because there are people there, there are many millions like ukrainians, they can immediately offer several such attempts at cultural literature, in song, in visual arts. when it comes to a small nation, i think that such an achievement is worth not only the shevchenko prize, but at least our awareness of the scale of the task, so that we... do not touch on other topics with you before the end of our conversation, i i will tell you honestly that in any case every anniversary of shevchenko is an opportunity to think in one way or another about the fact that he foresaw this whole situation, and this is something that the russians will never be able to keep quiet, because you remember that president reagan read...

lines from the caucasus, when he met with ukrainians, with american ukrainians in the white house, and these very lines, from the moldovan to the finn in all languages, everything is silent, because alas, now there is neither a moldovan nor a finn, but russia is destabilizing moldova and threatening finland, it would seem that how much time has passed since the caucasus and is trying to destabilize the caucasus. at the same time, that is, this poem, it remained as if it was written yesterday, the anti-imperial pathos of shevchenko, which in principle should look like such a classic of past history, like dickens, like byron, like anyone else, remains absolutely relevant poetry, the lines of

ukrainian poetry are relevant. well, the lines of russian poets remain relevant, because in their glorification of the empire, like alexander serhiyevich pushkin, who wrote: "the deserters are an old dispute between the slavs , but in principle, this is what, well, this could also be written now in any - to any russian tank that comes here, and you could do it, it could do it, no bendzia, bebendzia, if he read books, he could do it to quote" at a meeting of the security council of the united nations, and this conflict, the great civilizational conflict between the imperial poet and the anti-imperial poet, in 2024 it remains exactly as principled as it is now, and by the way, the same pushkin remained at the same time a singer freedom for russians, we are talking about russian oppositionists, they can be singers

of freedom and... for a while fierce chauvinists, i.e. freedom for themselves, not freedom for the oppressed, and this is also a very important point, which, i would say, makes ukrainian culture literature, which was created on a large scale and by shevchenko's efforts, is antagonistic to any imperial culture, so in this regard, you and i really need shevchenko to win, and it depends on us, and of course on our glorious soldiers, who can also be called heirs of this tradition, perhaps. thank you khrystyna, thank you very much to mr. vitaliy, the saturday flight club will return to our viewers next saturday, khrystyna yatskyi, vitaliy portnikov and see you soon.

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