By DMITRY KOSYREV
Ukraine in the information-phantom worlds has run up a lot of all sorts and different. Everyone creates Ukraine for himself, that is, in fact, he speaks not about her, but about his own, blood. In addition, in one country, as it turns out on the example of the United States, there can be two Ukraine: democratic and republican.
The differences between the two come to light when you look at a public opinion poll conducted by the sociological service of the University of Quinnipack in Connecticut . There, it occurred to someone to ask the Americans a question: what would you personally do if you found yourself in the same position as the Ukrainians today — would you stay and fight or leave the country?
Here, by the way, we are dealing with yet another informational phantom common to the entire West: that the entire Ukrainian nation, as one person, has taken up arms and is fighting. The reality that seems to be well-known to the same Americans, in which a couple of million Ukrainians have already entered Europe via western routes, does not fit here.
At the same time, no one in the West knows the reality where 2.6 million other Ukrainians want to leave for Russia today, but they are not allowed there by the Kiev authorities. About almost 300 thousand, which have already reached Russia, it is possible not to mention at all. But after all, the suffering of refugees is a completely separate informational construction that does not intersect with the concept of “they did not run and all as one took up arms.”
So they exist – each on its own. And this is not to mention the fact that people from the east of Ukraine took up arms precisely, only in the opposite sense.
*Dmitry Kosyrev is Russian author and publisher.
