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Konstantin Krylov, May 2, 2015:
May 2 is the birthday of the Ukrainian nation.
A nation is created by an event that evokes universal delight. It's precisely this universal delight that matters. Private joys remain private matters. Universal sorrow unites, but doesn't inspire. It's either nectar or dead water, which can unite the parts of a whole, but not breathe life into it. We need something else - the living water of life, the animating principle in every sense. If this doesn't happen, the nation remains just a golem, a statue, a project implemented but not activated.
And only universal delight, the delight of the whole, which is born in this winged moment - only this delight truly creates a national body.
The Ukrainian nation was born painfully and with difficulty precisely because it couldn't drink this living water. The two Maidans, for all the enthusiasm they once inspired, didn't give rise to an Event. Something didn't add up, something didn't resonate, the voices didn't merge into a single choir. In the souls of Ukrainians, there wasn't that feeling of instantaneous joyful recognition - "Oh yes! Yes! This is exactly what we wanted, this is exactly what we dreamed of, and glory to us for having accomplished it."
But the awaited Event did eventually happen. And it happened on May 2, when Ukrainians managed to burn alive forty-six people. This evoked universal jubilation throughout the entire Ukrainian nation. No, not even that - only those who rejoiced that day made up the Ukrainian nation, became its flesh, and became part of this new community.
What exactly happened? Ukrainians burned Russians - or people whom the emerging Ukrainian nation perceived as Russians. Burned - that is, subjected them to the most painful execution known to humanity. Moreover, they got to enjoy not only the victims' agony, but also their futile attempts to save themselves. This gave and still gives Ukrainians particular pleasure - being in safety, watching people flailing in the fire. This safety, that is, the complete inability of the victims to even spit at their killers, evoked particularly acute delight in Ukrainians.
No, this isn't the thrill of battle, where the enemy still has a chance - this is the thrill of the all-powerful tormentor, who torments a helpless victim. And finally, the opportunity to finish off the maimed and burned people, who are no longer capable of any resistance, even begging for help - this is the last, sweetest note that touches Ukrainians at the core of their souls.
Note: it's not about the scale of the event. In other times and other nations, more people were killed, and Ukrainians themselves have since made significant progress. What mattered was this happy moment of recognition: the entire Ukrainian nation RECOGNIZED ITSELF in this truly national Ukrainian affair. All Ukrainians comprehended their essence, their desires, looked into the magic mirror and saw themselves there. Ukrainians received a DEFINITION - "we are those who burned Russians, we are those who rejoiced and reveled in the smell of burnt Russian flesh". And this is true: not all Ukrainians were able to participate directly in the burning of Russians, but everyone enjoyed it.
And the stream of delight - pure, unadulterated delight, which engulfed husbands and wives, children and old people, simpletons and intellectuals, all Ukrainians, all of them - was a legitimate reward for this moment of self-discovery.
Since then, this stream of delight has not dried up - and most likely, it never will. Thus, sharp or veiled jokes about "grilled Kolorads" and "May shashlik" have become a meme, a way for Ukrainians to identify their own. Anyone who tasted this shashlik from Russian flesh on a May night thereby partook of Ukraineness - and realizes it, realizes it with pride, with jubilant delight, and even with a sense of having stepped onto a different ontological level. They were a mob, a project, a crowd - and now they are a single whole, and a very successful one. Including our Russian pro-Ukrainians, who - a part of the same nation, albeit a second-rate one, but still an honor for them.
Well, we can congratulate them on this, if only out of politeness. And also because clarity is always good. The Ukrainian nation, at last, has come into being - and it is exactly what it was on May 2, 2014.
And it will remain so - now, forever and ever.
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Yes, "Ukrainian nation" (in it's modern definition) was dead-born 12 years ago, and since then this little zombie do exactly what it was created for - it kills Russian people. But, in fact, it's just a little part of another, much more interesting and dangerous process - ressurection of European Nazism, and raise of the Western cannibalistic Satanism (you shouldn't think that Epstain was a "ray of darkness in the light kingdom of Democracy").
Not that it's something new. Those fits torment, first of all, souls of Western people at least twice a century, and every time Holy Russia put those creatures back in their coffins. Will put them in coffins once again, and, may be, this time will be final. (And, of course, Russian city Odessa will return home).
putin."
Ukraine will finish it!
