Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Serhiy Kislytsia sharply criticized Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for trying to support his speech at the Security Council with images from the work of the English writer George Orwell, Ukrinform reported.
According to the agency, Kislytsia wrote about this on the social network "Ex".
"Who does the sorry future Lavrov take us for when he tries to mobilize Orwell in his support? He may not know that New York diplomats have actually read Orwell and are not actually secondary products of MGIMO in the Soviet Union, where Orwell's books were banned or censored."
On Tuesday, Lavrov stated the following at the meeting of the Security Council dedicated to multilateral cooperation, Ukrinform informed: "Back in the last century, George Orwell in his novel "The Farm" envisions the essence of a rule-based order in which all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. If you do the will of the hegemon, you are allowed to do anything. And if you dare and start defending your national interests, you will be declared a monster and subject to sanctions.“
According to Kislitsa "the writers of the speeches” they forgot to remind Lavrov that the writer was a critic of Stalin and was hostile to Stalinism. According to Orwell himself, the satirical work "The Farm", which Lavrov refers to, "reflects the events preceding the Russian Revolution of 1917, and then the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union - the period in which Russia lived under the rule of communist ideology of Joseph Stalin, which in today's collective farm Russia is so loved, almost worshipped,”, explains the Ukrainian diplomat.
Each animal in "The Farm", he added, represented a certain class of Soviet (read: today's Russian) society: Boxer, the workhorse, represented the working class and the ideological Stakhanovites; Benjamin, the skeptical donkey, represented the intelligence that understood everything but did nothing; the evil dogs represented the NKVD officers; the silent sheep represented the masses; squealer the pig represented the government controlled media, etc.
"At the top of the pyramid stands a large, rather ferocious-looking Berkshire boar named Napoleon (an allegory of Joseph Stalin), who gradually transcribes the seven commandments of animalism (an allegorical reference to communism), the main one of which begins to sound like this: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”, wrote Kislytsia.
"So, Comrade Lavrov, what kind of animal are you?”, he asked rhetorically.
As Ukrinform previously reported, Russia convened the UN Security Council to discuss multilateral cooperation in order to divert the attention of the international community from Moscow's clear violations of the UN Charter and its abuses in the Security Council. More than fifty countries condemned Russia's actions and supported Ukraine by signing a declaration read by Kislytsia.