This Nazi character of Maidan and its desire to treat
the other (i.e., the Russians) as slaves or/and as someone made to be killed comes
out audibly from the video “poem” by Anastasiya Dmytruk, which went viral after
it was posted on March 19, 2014. The original video collected views over
2,200,000 views (as of October 21,2014), and a song later made with its lyrics
reached by October 2014 almost 4 million views.[1] Next to the video “I am Ukrainian” made in English
for the global audience by Yulia Marushevska and
Graham Mitchell with over 8,250,000\ million views as of October 21, 2014), [2] Dmytruk’s
video (in Russian) became the second best known PR stunt of Maidan. In
accordance with the imperative “The Medium is the Message,” which emphasizes
form and the medium over content, many people became captivated by the
appearance of the speaker and by the fact that she is a young female and paid
little attention to the content of her message besides its heading “We will
never be brothers”:
You
have no spirit to be free. … You are many, but without a personality
(character). Volia [a perfectly
Russian word for freedom] is the word, which you don’t know about. From
childhood, you are all held in bonds. For you silence at home is gold, but, in
our hands, Molotov cocktails are set to go, our blood is afire and our eyes are
fearless. … Rats [you] are hiding and praying in vain, they will wash
themselves in their own blood.[3]
Dmytruk’s message, once one starts listening to its
content, becomes clear. For her, Russians are slaves and “rats” deprived of
speech and individuality. Moreover, if Maidan used Molotov cocktails as a
weapon of choice against the unarmed police, then less than two months after
the poem was posted, the Kiev junta did use Molotov cocktails praised by
Dmytruk as a main instrument of murder of the antifascists during the Odessa massacre
on May 2, 2014.
[1] “Никогда
мы не будем братьями (песня),”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj1MTTArzPI>
Accessed on October 21, 2014.
[2] Yulia Marushevska filmed by Graham
Mitchell in Kyiv, “I am a Ukrainian,” February 10, 2014 < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvds2AIiWLA>
Accessed on October 21, 2014.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv97YeC563Y>
Accessed
on October 21, 2014.
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