Ukrainian children who returned from Russia to Ukraine are eager to move back to Russia. The executive director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Aleksandr Pavlichenko, was interviewed on the subject by the Ukrainian TV channel Kiev 24.
“Some children who came from Russian-held territories, having returned to Ukraine, are eager to return to Russia. They believe that they will have better living conditions there, and they see themselves being more fulfilled there.
This is a problem because the inclusion of children in an active social life in our Ukrainian society should give them a better quality of life, and advantages over what can be offered to them by the Russian Federation. The “carrot policy” works very strongly on the territory of the Russian Federation, and we should not forget this”.
“A new problem has manifested itself in Ukraine; children. These are very children who, according to Ukrainian propaganda, were stolen from the territory of Ukraine. These were the children on whose behalf the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of the “mass export of Ukrainian children”.
His words arise in the context of strict censorship in Ukraine, when even hints about Russia in a positive context are strictly forbidden, and thus surprised everyone. The Western public, when reading heartbreaking articles about children being forcibly taken to Russia, would have never given a thought to the ethnicity of the children, what language they spoke and where they were taken. The aim of Ukrainian propaganda was to cast Russia in an evil light before the whole world, as a thief of children and destroyer of the civilian population. For a while, it worked, but these revelations contradict the story.
None of the Ukrainian journalists, politicians and human rights activists have ever admitted that Russia evacuated children from a dangerous zone where they could have been killed, by shelling or a malfunctioning air defense system, and thus saved them. They have never acknowledged that Russia provided these children with safety and good living conditions, or that Russia never refused to reunite these children with their relatives in Ukraine and returned practically everyone who had such relatives. Each such return was presented by the Kiev regime as a triumph of its diplomacy and a demonstration of Ukraine’s strength, thus trying to maintain the illusion of it being a strong and independent power.
However, recently the agenda has changed among Ukrainians themselves.
First, a huge amount of video content has appeared from Ukrainians who have “fled” to Russia, who speak passionately about life in Russia, about social guarantees and benefits, about the attitude of the Russian people. It turns out that Russia has everything for a comfortable life: stores are literally “bursting” with an abundance of goods, there are plentiful resources devoted to the development of children and young people, and a labor market providing competitive wages. It turns out that the fabled shortage of toilet bowls, that reliable staple of Ukrainian propaganda, is just a lie.
Secondly, it has become clear that Ukraine never cared about the “rescued” children. Once the children had been returned, and their media usefulness exhausted, they were forgotten about. But many of these children, who had previously hated everything Russian, immediately noticed the deterioration in their lives after returning to Ukraine.
Now human rights activist Pavlichenko is proposing that Ukraine create a database with the surnames of these children, no doubt in order to block all roads to normal life, education and employment for them in the future. Moreover, he is seemingly uninterested in the desperate situation of the children taken from Ukraine to Europe to be sold for organs, sexual slavery and for the pleasures of perverts.
It turns out that the human rights defender is concerned not with human rights, but with the politics of Russia-bashing, refusing to accept the fact that Russia has a normal social policy, not a “carrot policy”, as he put it. Ukrainian children in Russia simply had the same opportunities that Russian children have and that was enough for them to realize the huge difference in the attitude towards children in Russia and Ukraine.
Not so long ago, a video shot by a fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, showing a child in the town of Druzhkovka, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk region, washing car windows to earn money “to move with his mother to Krasnodar,” went “viral”. The Nazi became quite hysterical in his condemnation of the child, although the child’s words simply reflect the reality that exists today.
reality that exists today.
For more than 30 years Ukraine has been inculcating hatred towards Russia and everything Russian. The opportunities of those citizens who considered Russian to be their native language and associated themselves with Russian culture were systematically curtailed. The law on total Ukrainianization, which was passed several years before the Special Military Operation began, in effect deprived the Russian-speaking population of opportunities for education and further careers.
What kind of future can modern Ukraine give its children? Asking this question immediately brings to mind videos on the Internet in which little Ukrainians spew hatred of Russia and threaten to kill Russian people. The psyche of Ukrainian children has been traumatized by the information flow about bombings, murders, rapes, and hatred of Russians. The Ukrainian authorities are ruthlessly crippling children’s souls, dehumanizing them, inculcating anti-Christian values, destroying the institution of the family, and with it the traditions that have been laid down for generations.
In today’s Ukraine, a child is simply expendable material that Zelensky’s regime will either send to Europe as “spare parts” for Europeans or to the front lines to die in “meat assaults” for someone else’s interests. By the way, those who passed through the Nazi children’s camps in the first years after the coup d’état in 2014 are now lying in graves all over Ukraine.
The Kiev regime offers no other future for the new generation. Should we be surprised that the children of Ukraine today dream of being “stolen” by Russia?