Lester Golden
2 min readAug 15, 2022

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Timofey Sergeytsev was Yanukovych's political consultant in 2010. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Russia_Should_Do_with_Ukraine)

You didn't answer these questions:

Should Ukraine exist as an independent state? Should Georgia? Latvia? Estonia? Lithuania?

Do you agree with Timofey Sergeytsev's April article in Ria Novosti that all those who claim a separate Ukrainian identity are Nazis and should be subject to "lustration"? (https://www.memri.org/reports/russian-columnist-sergeytsev-ukranian-nazism-greater-threat-world-german-nazism)

Are all the students, taxi drivers, artists, writers, restaurateurs, designers, techies, rabbi, priests, etc, in the Maidan revolution of dignity portrayed in the Netflix documentary Winter on Fire Nazis? (https://www.netflix.com/title/80031666)

Is my former student, Anna Bondarenko, profiled in the Anne Applebaum article, a Nazi because she fights for Ukrainian independence?

Were they all part of an American-sponsored coup (like in Chile 1973, Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, Brazil 1964)?

Lavrov said Russia has not invaded Ukraine. Do you agree?

How do you know Zelenskiy? From Kyiv? Kryvi Rih? Moscow?

And one additional question: Do you agree with Medvedev and Patrushev about Ukraine?

"Dmitry Medvedev, the current deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, as well as former president of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and former prime minister of Russia between 2012 and 2020, reiterated the main points of the article a few days after its publication. According to Medvedev, "a passionate segment of Ukrainian society has been praying to the Third Reich",[25] Ukraine is a Nazi state like the Third Reich that must be "denazified" and "eradicated", and the result will be a collapse of Ukraine as a state.[26] Medvedev claims that the collapse is a path towards "open Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok".[26] Medvedev has continued this rhetoric, posting lengthy diatribes against Ukraine aimed at domestic audiences. For example, in his "On Fakes and True History", he claimed that "the very essence of Ukrainianness, fed by anti-Russian venom and lies about its identity, is one big sham.... Ukrainian identity does not exist and never has." [27]

On April 26 of 2022, Nikolai Patrushev said that "the Americans by using their proteges in Kyiv decided to create an antipode of our country, cynically choosing Ukraine for this, trying to divide an essentially single nation" and that "the result of the policy of the West and the Kyiv regime under its control can only be the disintegration of Ukraine into several states"

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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