“This is the only way to preserve Ukrainian uniqueness. Go to the villages! Only there can you hear the true mother tongue! Have you ever visited a simple Ukrainian village, drunk water from the well or tasted home-made bread?”
“I haven’t, but I have seen them queuing in the villages to buy bread that has been delivered from elsewhere, he said, making out that the impressions of others were his own. And I know how young people from the villages are dying to move to the towns and how they want to speak Russian, so that nobody can tell they are from the country.”
“Well, the village girls are still the best! And we don’t want your clever-clogs, these all-too-experienced feminists in black tights, in our native Ukraine. We will boycott them!”
“You don’t say! But in the offices of a certain
