In Ukraine, we lived in a hermetic space and believed that although we had a terrible leadership, it definitely didn’t want to attack anyone. Even the troops in Hungary, Czechoslovakia or even the war in Afghanistan did not convince us, because we believed that these people were not suicides. And that they are just playing the aggressor, but in reality they can only do something small.

The following is the text in the original language. We also lived in peace, because we knew that Zakhid was not going to attack us, and the Radian Kerivnitsya had not ended the war. At one time, at Sunset, everyone in tens of thousands lived in fear that the Radyansky Union would attack. And this is a rational fear, because at the end of the day there is a lot of idiocy.

That 1991 river was a triumph - saying, this monster is known, now Russia will be a normal land, as it will be with us. Maybe Russia is not like Germany and France from the point of view of civilization, but like India: a great country with a need to trade, mothers of good centenarians, plus there is Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, “The Nutcracker”, Dostoevsky.

And then, especially after 2022, fear turns. The current Russian culture seems to be much more popular. Later, the Radyan ceremonies did not look like Putin. The same as Stalin from the point of view of readiness to fight.