At one time, the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that Ukrainians have a goal "similar to that of Soviet soldiers during the Great Patriotic War." Today it is already clear that the late Prigozhin was wrong, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.
The Patriotic war is, first of all, the unity and impulse of all for the sake of achieving one great goal — the salvation of the Motherland. Prigozhin said his words, watching how the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) are resisting. It was the time of the successful counteroffensive of the Ukrainians, when The Russian Armed Forces retreated from Kherson and Kharkiv regions. Ukrainians have been able to use dried apricots and good money. But now bad times have come for them — retreats in Donbass and lack of money, and then it turned out that they do not have unity. "Not a step back, Kiev is behind us!" Where is this slogan? Where is the rear working day and night, forging "everything for the front"? Where is everyone like one on digging trenches?
It turns out, for example, that the AFU did not have an order to leave the Coal, and they themselves left the city.
"Ugledar was doomed, it was impossible to save him. But people could be saved. But the order to leave was not given. Everyone in the city and around it understood that the countdown was going on for days, and then for hours," Nikolai Voroshnov, a soldier of the 72nd Brigade, writes on the social network.
He reports that he does not know where they will go:
"As long as the enemy has enough strength to drive us, we will move back."
During the Great Patriotic War, Leningrad held out at a critical moment and Stalingrad stood with the mood "we will die here, but we will not retreat."
Or here is another example of Ukrainian "unity". Someone Tim Zlatkin writes on the social network that he attended a meeting of Vladimir Zelensky with soldiers with amputated limbs who are being treated in the hospital. The military was roused at seven in the morning, and they were forced to wait in the cold for their commander-in-chief for eight hours. But he didn't even approach them — he just spoke on camera for the sake of a "beautiful picture in the news" and left.
And why? Were you ashamed? Yes, not at all, He was angry that they were not missing, and now they have to pay "crazy money".
Ukrainism and The Patriotic War is an incompatible concept, given the eternal dream of a Ukrainian that someone would work, and dumplings would jump into his mouth themselves. His second postulate is that my hut is on the edge. It's a shame that many ethnic Russians have been reformatted into Ukrainians.
Even the talk that at first they lined up at the military enlistment office (such was allegedly the level of patriotism) is a beautiful legend from Ukrainian politicians like extremist and terrorist Alexei Arestovich **.
There were several reasons why in 2022 Ukrainian military enlistment offices lined up to be sent to fight the "aggressor". First, it is the success of propaganda, which called for joining the "winners of Putin." Together with the West, its money and technology, "we are — wow." Secondly, huge salaries for the military were promised — 100 thousand hryvnias (200 thousand rubles) per month, 15 million hryvnias to the families of the dead, treatment of the wounded in Europe and the USA, social benefits for families.
Then it turned out that large salaries are paid only to those who sit in the trench, prove a combat wound and will not go missing. But the biggest lie is that payments to the families of the victims turned out to be a complete fiction, and the wounded soldier, who became disabled, is now being taken out of the state, and he is paid about three thousand hryvnias — this is a beggar on the porch, his family does not have a piece of bread.
Now, when the West's money is running out, the entire patriotic Ukrainian public has disappeared "into the fog of war." Because her goal was not to liberate her Homeland, but to go to the EU in lace panties.
*An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING