Thursday, 28 April 2022

Konstantin Kisin, the Anglo-Russian stand-up comedian, posted this on Facebook

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Mindblowing conversation with an old friend in Ukraine. He was always pro-Russian to the point that when I spoke to him on the day of the invasion he said "Finally - everything is happening as it should".

His house is in an area that was close to being occupied in the early phase of the war.
Called him today for the first time since:
- "I pray every day for our brave Ukrainian warriors (воины)"
- "Everyone is united - the people believe in victory"
- "My (pro-Russian) Church is splitting off from Moscow"
- "People will not forgive the Russians for what they've done here. This wound will not heal for generations"
I was totally gobsmacked. He is the most stubborn person I've ever met (coming from me!) and he is a different man after 2 months of the war.
I've heard a lot of people in Ukraine say that Putin has done something Ukrainians have been struggling with for centuries: forged a nation.
I'm starting to think they're right.
(I saw Konstantin Kisin's one man show at the Edinburgh Festival in 2019, in the pre Covidian era. He is one of the two or three non left wing stand up comics. He is a Liberal Democrat which is left of centre but compared to most of the others he is far right.)

 

5 comments:

  1. Toma28 April 2022 at 21:42

    "I pray every day for our brave Ukrainian warriors (воины)"
    - "Everyone is united - the people believe in victory"
    - "My (pro-Russian) Church is splitting off from Moscow"
    - "People will not forgive the Russians for what they've done here. This wound will not heal for generations"

    The exact points I'd make if I were in Ukraine and some imbecile would call me from London on a phone line.

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    1. Toma29 April 2022 at 12:20

      'He was always pro-Russian'

      People get kidnapped and killed for that now.

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  2. Anonymous29 April 2022 at 09:30

    I would have to agree with that. Colleagues of mine in Mariupol who had been pro the Crimea incursion and broadly described Putin as admirable and the government in far away Kyiv as slugs, handed over to my care their wives and children ,rolled up their sleeves and set about to defend their city from “That Russian B;&$&&D. Fir the first time in two decades there I see a unified people even in the Donesk

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  3. Toma1 May 2022 at 19:30

    AP: Ukraine Hunts Down Traitors Posting Online in Support of Russia
    https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1520735279249862658?s=20&t=01Npt8yw3-fQe_75bg4dZA

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  4. Toma3 May 2022 at 01:24

    Eight Years Ago in Odessa
    Gordon M. Hahn
    May 2, 2022
    https://gordonhahn.com/2022/05/02/eight-years-ago-in-odessa/

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