and restrained funding, we were cut off from electricity, gas supplies were limited, and our specialists, our families of our aviators felt great hardship. ukraine inherited 44 strategic bombers, it was 1995 and 25 tu-160, and at that time the tu-160 was on... the newest strategic bombers in the soviet arsenal, they were not even in russia, and these planes, some of them were simply destroyed, cut, some of them did not even fly for a single hour, and 11 strategic planes, three planes the tu-95 and eight of the most modern aircraft with a minimum used resource of 160 aircraft were transferred to russia, in addition to the specified... 11

aircraft were transferred 581 strategic cruise missiles of the x-55 class as compensation for ukraine's indebtedness to russia for the use of gas in the amount of 285 million dollars, but i'm sorry, this is the cost of one, well, probably one and a half strategic planes, not to mention other planes and missiles, that's how incompetently everything was given to our enemy. cruise missiles that ukraine gave to russia in 1999 for gas debts, today they return to ukraine, destroy our cities and kill people. a meme was even born in the russian public: we return. tu-95, tu-160 aircraft, they were subject to the sno treaty, as well as ...

intercontinental ballistic missiles, but there were still a certain number of strategic bombers that were not subject to this treaty, this is the tu-22, and they also were disposed of for the finances of the american this technical assistance, why? because this process has started. i fully trust the work that technical executors will do to ukraine i will come and check, but mostly i am in ukraine. there was money for disarmament, the americans said, these are also strategic bombers, there is already equipment, everything is already here, let us help you get rid of it, and the ukrainian authorities went for it. the americans allocated funds, we found dealers in the ranks, in large ranks, unfortunately, most of all these were relatives of individual high-ranking officials, they created their own private companies. having neither

strength nor means, but receiving most of the funds allocated for the disarmament of the united states of america , the planes will be cut down, it will make money from it, then scrap metal, aluminum alloys and so on, thousands of tons, everything was removed, the infrastructure was all destroyed, the fact that we eliminated the last plane today is a planned measure. so that once again we can prove to the world our peace-loving policy and our desire for world peace. we are no longer a target. the main problem is such a careless attitude to development, to new technologies, to the development of our own weapons, which could now be on the battlefield shifts and perform these tasks, it is especially unfortunate for missile weapons. we also have a huge center... of ketno-building in

dnipro, it is both the design bureau pivden and pivden mash. in soviet times, it was one of the three largest, most powerful manufacturers of intercontinental ballistic missiles, rocket industry. at the time of the collapse of the soviet union, 70% of all strategic, that is, missile warheads, dnipro production, it was huge. part of the strategic power of the soviet union was produced in ukraine. power after power the new ukrainian authorities, for some unknown reason, they did not pay any attention to the potential that was inherited at that time. most of all, it remained at the level of developments, trial samples and tests. today, when ukraine is asking for partners, allies. of its long-range

missile weapons, these are ground- based systems with a range of up to 500 km. these are actually weapons that could be produced in the dnipro. we could have our own weapons if they were developed and put into mass production, let's say even after in 2014 itself, when it became absolutely clear and clear where the strategic threats to ukraine come from. on the other hand, in independent ukraine , military exports were actively developing, in particular under gray schemes, including in the interests of private defense companies. ukraine sold. aviation equipment, armored vehicles and air defense equipment. in just 9 years from 2005 to the 14th , almost 2 billion dollars worth of military property, equipment and weapons were sold off. disarmament is half the battle, and even looting property is not the whole problem. the army

was simply oppressed, budgets were cut and reduced numbers, reduced pay, and this disdain, constant understatement... of nato standards, of course, those who knew something, could, they were fired, and young people did not think of going to pursue a military career, and accordingly it happened negative selection , the most important mistake highlighted itself very clearly already in 2014, this is the lack of an army and the lack of awareness in ukraine that... the state, in order to exist, must have not only the police, not only the presidential office, but also the army , especially in the post-imperial situation, especially with an aggressive neighbor, which, like russia, was

the owner of the former empire and made territorial claims to the ukrainian crimea, in particular to the ukrainian donbas, starting in 1991. i congratulate you all on the victory in the elections. in the presidential elections of 2010, 12.5 million votes of ukrainians were received by a man with a criminal past, a clear opponent of moscow, viktor yanukovych. did ukrainian politicians and parliamentary parties reflect the worldview and mentality of ukrainian society. why did people choose her? do ukrainians carry responsibility for your choice? ukrainian presidents were a mirror image of society. kravchuk was the president because 70% of the country was post-soviet. kuchma was president because he reflected

the economy of the time. it was the economy of the red directors. i believe that kravchuk is a little underrated, and kuchma is too demonized. with all yours. and with his open sins, leonid danylovich was a statesman, and for this the fsb arranged a special operation to discredit him. the question was exactly that, not the figure kuchma, because kuchma then swayed back and forth, in the mood of ukrainian society, which did not want to build an independent statehood, and after three years of real economic problems, which were everywhere in the soviet union, chose a course. to the metropolis and 10 years later, because in 2004 almost half of ukrainians voted for viktor yanukovych for the first time. in 2010, the majority of ukrainians again voted for viktor yanukovych, who never hid his pro-russian political leanings. and we will do it by uniting

our efforts with those partners with whom we see it is beneficial for us to do so, and this is, first of all, russia. yanukovych came to power because of all these transformations. sions are capitalist, they left huge numbers of people on the margins, and these marginalized people were very often people without jobs, or people with a criminal past or present. the ukrainians who elected yanukovych are of course guilty, but i cannot say that they will understand what i will say, why they are guilty. these ukrainians are the product of the decline of historical amnesia not cured and cultivated for... for them by the political local elites, because it is so convenient to cultivate this soviet figure, they remained in the camp of illusions, fakes and myths that they could choose, that is, i can say, they are to blame, and on the other hand parties, they did not know another alternative, they simply did not have access, when you sow

dragon's teeth in the ground, dragons grow from these teeth, not wheat, it is impossible to work like this, you will have to work like this, it is known. since the existence of mankind, ukrainians have only been engaged in this after the declaration of independence for 30 years with some minor breaks. we will win with you! here we should not be surprised, but be glad that they did not eat everyone. the minister of education during yanukovych's time was dmytro tabachnyk, who today is a consultant to the russian occupation administrations and a member of putin's united russia party. tabachnyk worked, so to speak, for the rapprochement of brotherly peoples. at tabachnyk's direction , events that shaped the ukrainian nation and statehood were removed from history textbooks. ukraine's success. such activities of the minister were not

considered anti-state, on the contrary decisive in the humanitarian policy of president yanukovych. this is just a kgb agent. and his role, it changed in accordance with the tasks. under kuchma, he simply had to contribute to the fact that ukraine had to go where belarus went. he simply lost the fight, which was a heavy defeat for russia. but when his curators already came to power, he began to act much more aggressively, and this role of his in the ministry of education showed his true capabilities in general, because the ukrainian ethnos was perfectly realized in the conditions of the multicultural and multi-ethnic russian empire, he began with the leveling of ukrainian statehood, and ended with the leveling of the ukrainian spirit and civilization, this is his role. in our autonomy , a public referendum is held on a holiday. in 2013

, the title of hero of ukraine was awarded to the regional borys dech. dech has been supporting russia in the illegal referendum in crimea for at least a year. i will vote for accession to russia, because it will be better for crimea. in general, among the people's deputies who voted for the dictatorial laws on january 16. 2014 laws which criminalized the revolution of dignity, there are nine heroes of ukraine. with the beginning of russian aggression, at least five ukrainian heroes helped the russians, among them vyacheslav boguslaev, director of motorsichi. hero of ukraine boguslayiv supplied ukrainian aircraft engines for the russian army during the full-scale invasion. what engines do you want to buy? well, tv3, please, how much? you need it, we will sell it, we will deliver it to you. too often in independent ukraine, heroes and their persecutors,

dissidents and their judges were not simply equalized, but often changed places in social status and benefits. in 1984 , terminally ill human rights activist valery marchenko was convicted by a soviet court and sent to prison in the urals. he will die in six months in the prison hospital, but here is the judge. who passed this sentence, made a brilliant career in independent ukraine, headed the kyiv court, received awards and a high pension. another judge, who sentenced upa soldier ivan honcharuk to be shot in 1987, will receive a pension of over uah 2,000 per month today. refusal of a request for pardon from ivan honcharuk, signed by the head of the verkhovna rada of soviet ukraine, valentina shevchenko. we all apply. to you with a request for a moment of silence now to honor the memory of a great woman

of ukraine, valentina shevchenko. in 2020 , the ukrainian parliament will stand almost in full to honor her memory. these are not our heroes and executioners in between, this is a stalinist strategy, but we have incomplete de-stalinization, or the decolonization pact, broadly speaking. we cannot tolerate. those who 30 years ago committed a crime against ukraine, and today just comfort, rests peacefully, not involved in political life, we should not forgive them for this, soviet politics, when we have mountains of corpses, we have the dead, we have no culprits, we have victims, but the dozens who killed volodymyr ivasyuk, and everyone knows that volodymyr ivasyuk was killed by the kgb, and that's all. killed by the kgb, no one is named, no one is named , no one is guilty, in general

, by the repressive colonial policy in ukraine in the 70s and 80s, these people remained in power, you and the party, this is the only mafia, were the merits of the dissidents sufficiently taken into account , well, it's hard for me to judge, because i am a dissident myself, you can say that no, it was not, because... for most people, it was not an example and model. moreover, dissidents annoy many by speaking the truth when others are forced to remain silent. repetition of terror, totalitarian terror, to get back on your feet. ukrainians do not know much about dissidents, ukrainians , especially young people, do not read their works, are not very familiar with their biographies, and, unfortunately, are practically not concerned with their fates, not only those who died in the struggle for independent ukraine or

for human rights within the framework of the geltsinsk union, but even by those who survived. there are shameful cases when... incidents barely broke through on a meager pension during all these years, 30 plus years of independence, for some reason they did not become some kind of living canon of some kind of coolness, courage, there are not enough films that tell what this was worth struggle. currently, ukraine does not have a single pantheon of heroes like the arlington national cemetery in the usa. already after the collapse of the ussr, russian peace managed to usurp. vinicropolis in kyiv glory park. we could rebury here in these graves the longed-for ukrainian heroes, soldiers and armies, and soldiers of the upa, and the army of the ukrainian people's republic, and heroes of the krut, and the ukrainian galician army, that is, all of ours, but the park remained a soviet pantheon. likewise, the other mariinsky park

is another large necropolis, where very different people are buried, sometimes ideological enemies, bolsheviks and non-enerists. white guards and hetmans, however, most of the burials were razed to the ground even in soviet times. in independent ukraine in mariinsky park mostly soviet and russian ideological labels remained. unfortunately, we didn't have any heroes in common, and there wasn't a proper tribute to the heroes. courageous fighters for the independence of ukraine, soldiers of the upa, made heroic resistance to the fascist invaders. ukrainians fought. in different armies, ukrainians fought in different armies, we had a high level of infiltration of all institutions, all state bodies, influence by russian agents, on the other hand, we had a population that lacked these practices, lacked experience in honoring

it did not know how to do it, we still do not know, we are still learning how to do it, the law of creation. of the military cemetery was approved by the verkhovna rada of ukraine in may 2022. at the time of the release of this episode, construction has not yet begun, and they cannot agree on a location. the families of the fallen defenders of ukraine are still waiting for the national military necropolis. it seemed that the revolution of dignity gave a powerful impetus to the joint rethinking of the past. finally, thousands will disappear. streets and squares and monuments to lenin. parliament accepts decommunization laws. however, even here, ukrainians are divided in opinion. human rights activists say that decommunization does not meet european standards of human rights and imposes an ideology. some ukrainians perceive some totalitarian symbols as cultural monuments and consider their

demolition an act of vandalism. i remember when lenin fell on besosartsia. even some of my friends said that it is not possible, it is barbarism, it is vandalism, it is not possible to do this, for them it was something against civilization, civility, that is, these methods, they were too radical, there is a monument, it is necessary to sign papers, to agree with a large number of people that it should be demolished, they demolished the monument to lenin on taras shevchenko boulevard, and... my mother lives in the village and says: what did he do to people? here we are, for example, when we got married, this monument is a memory for us. lenin 's fall on the besarak, i was his witness, absolutely some short man, god's advanchik in engineer's glasses, such a grandfather pushes away this certain teenager, snatches a sledgehammer from him, and is already using the sledgehammer to hit lenin, and

says something, something like, well, what , what expresses his attitude to communism. it was clear that this is the response of the kyiv community to decades of ignoring requests to remove all this shame somewhere in the chiku museum. why was there so much resistance to topographical decolonization? the children will cheer and be very happy, because they love and know who georgy konstantinovich zhukov is. what motivated the people who fought against the renaming of the avenue of the soviet military leader zhukov to... the avenue of the rights activist hryhorenko in kharkiv. for the vast majority of people, this is not a question ideological choice, there are some serious considerations, it's just a matter of convenience, laziness that i am. i'm used to that , well, it will be, he doesn't interfere with me, i'm already used to him, i live here, as long as he's with me, and he protects me too, at the same time, we shouldn't forget

that yes, well, right here after all, the russian empire existed for centuries, and the communist totalitarian government was here for more than 70 years, the influence is maddening people’s consciousness, the images of heroes are so canonized, the images of criminals, images... you don’t need to be arrogant, images that you have to hate, it’s very simple, and suddenly some intellectual , historian, there is a philosopher, a literary critic comes and says, well, not everything is so simple here, here with this character, no no no not as they told you about in soviet textbooks, this is uncomfortable, this is a trauma, that as for the subjugation of the imperial heritage, it is generally three decades old, we often work with narratives developed, in particular , by european non... top educators there during the time of catherine ii, very often this process of overcoming imperial influence, imperial culture, russian culture, was moved

with the soviet the extremely complicated and mythologized memory of the second world war also grew with this block of soviet ideologues, in fact with communism , and the problem was why all these stories with kernes, with strukhan, because this is imperial, soviet and... . the memory of the second world war was fused into what is now called scraps, and it actually the decommunization law and subsequent laws were challenged in this scrap, and it fell into society unprepared, in fact well unprepared, society there was little normally developed discussion and dialogue regarding these problems. first of all, there really lived in ukraine, there lived then a huge share of people who did not consider themselves ukrainians, did not feel themselves ukrainians, who considered themselves... russian or soviet people, whom fate, the structure of the soviet union brought to

ukraine, and they simply settled here, and they did not feel any need for identification, apparently this caused them a furious protest, because they did not understand why they were now forced to obey this will, this supposed. e of a new identity, unfortunately, decommunization, it it is necessary, it is mandatory, but it will no longer work as well as it would have worked in the 90s, because those communists, they have already given birth to the next generation, which does not have communist ideology, which can already exist even in the soviet union did not live, but they passed on to their descendants, i mean not biological descendants, yes, but to these descendants of negative selection, they passed on all this cynicism. and all this ignorance, and we sing something in russian, well, i think that she is not on the list of decommunized people, because

it is a, let them be damned with their decommunization in the same way, another part of the people, to another large part and also a considerable part of the people, they spoke very, very deeply. a hidden sense of guilt, guilt for their own collaboration, guilt for the fact that they allowed themselves to be russified, that they allowed the russification and sovietization of their children for the sake of some favors and preferences, they renounced their own identity, and when the question arises about ukrainianism, about the language... it immediately confronts this feeling of guilt, and then it is a very powerful defense mechanism, they say, it is an attack on my, my entire strategy

life, i am very worried about all the children, absolutely, and i came so that there would be peace, that there would be no maidan, that there would be peace, that we would live, in the spring of 2023 the parliament will finally pass the law on decolo'. in the midst of the war, under russian missiles and bombs , ukraine begins to rapidly cleanse itself of the markers of the empire. we just have to change our attitude towards it, we have to understand that , firstly, this is not any greatness, and secondly, that it is not our greatness, russian culture. i assure you, the next 100 years for our culture will pass in context, well, if not struggle with russian culture, then repositioning with russian. because we are very closely related to russian by virtue of the fact that we are, sorry, involved in its creation, and we cannot do the surgery or the microsurgery that is required here with an ax and we cannot ignore

it. a large part of society does not even believe that, but somehow has such an automatic assumption that important ideas are not produced here, but somewhere in the world capitals, and it is necessary to join those world capitals, that is, this shift of centrality to its community, yes, when you are ready to start investing here, because the most talented and the most interesting can grow here, it seems to me that we are only at the beginning of this process, and these first 30 years we have overcome this peripherality rather quickly. then it is simply a question of finding a critical place, this does not mean that we must now cleanse the entire symbolic order of our existence from russian culture, no, but we must find a place, and we must find a way of reading it, which will actually give answers to including the question of why we took so long

were dependent on it. look, by the way, how joyfully people discover what they were separated from, and how they try to make up for it, to finish reading already at an adult, conscious age, and somehow they try to provide their children with some kind of ukrainian-centric education now, so that these children understand what is ukraine and why should we fight for it and why should we fight for it, and who we are and what we are, what kind of sons, what kind of parents. this war changed ukrainian society, the idea appeared that... the state is not necessarily a stranger, it is not necessarily an extortionist. the idea that there is a state appeared it is necessary that the state is ukrainian, it is in the interests of the people. if you think about national identity, it's not biological and it's not something fixed by history. culture is something that develops and is formed with the help of people, and i think that the war itself will play an extremely

important role in the future of ukraine. only ukrainians are trying to explain to themselves who they are, who their heroes are, who they look up to. we now know who we are, we know who we are with, and we know who is with us, this is a very great achievement of the ukrainian history, ukrainian politics, that we are on the right side, on the bright side , finally, finally, we are not for hitler, not for stalin, but... with the entente, we are becoming what we had to become a long time ago, we are becoming one of the elements of the great game of good versus bad ones, that's all. we made a lot of mistakes, sometimes they seemed fatal, but despite all our mistakes, the ukrainian national idea still stood, it was so viable and powerful , we survived thanks to people for

whom the difference was always there. the old injuries and the crowded rooms made us stronger. we today we discover this strength and resilience both for ourselves and for the world. the country of unlearned lessons is finally becoming mature and responsible.

conducting a special, we are conducting martial law on the entire territory of our state. chevrons approaching victory.