the stand-up comedian, now known as nastya zukhvala, grew up in the transdnieper region, in an environmentmostly surzhik. it is sewn somewhere in the subcortex, that yes, the feeling of inferiority of ukrainian, it was there from the youngest age, well, this is a banal example, that your barbies speak russian, because your barbies... so, when nastya started doing stand-up, she switched to russian and took a russian pseudonym. that's when i started speaking russian, because everyone absolutely everyone absolutely spoke russian, mm , firstly, secondly, i decided for myself in which language i would start performing, that was the moment of fatal mistakes, i considered ukrainian and russian, but what a stereotype i had, i decided, that i will not be taken seriously by ukraine. i will explain how i came to such a deep conclusion, and because at that time there were not many comedians who performed in ukrainian, but they seemed to have ridden this horse, so a little universal or i don’t know, that is, it was somehow surji and then it still seemed to me that it was somehow less tight -knit, it’s