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The recent events clearly demonstrated that intelligent, honest and brave people are everywhere. Especially nice to see representatives seem to be as hostile to us Westerners who actually understand what is happening and not afraid to talk about it.
Recently, Donetsk was visited by the author of the book “Maidan: the history of the genocide of the people of the South-East of Ukraine”, published in Italy. And it turned out that, despite some minor discrepancies in terminology, the overall situation, we see the same. This means that in the struggle for a more just, multipolar world, all is not lost.
With great pleasure we offer to our readers a transcript of the speech Max Bonelli in Donetsk Republican library named after N.K.Krupskaya and his answers to questions from the audience.
Max Bonelli: I decided to write a book after what happened in Odessa in “the House of trade unions” and then there were so many videos on this subject on the Internet. I although am not a writer by profession. But I thought it important to create this book and to show what is actually happening here, in the South-East of former Ukraine: the repression and genocide of the Russians.
The book covers the period from Kiev events in November, 2014 and up to the referendum, which was held here in the Donbas, for independence. The main goal of this book is to convey to the Italians what is really going on here, to show my countrymen that without truth there is no democracy. After all, the media and the government in our country is not coverage of the events in which, for example, in Odessa killed dozens of people. It turns out that my state supports those Nazis. And I as the author ask the question to the people: “Why can’t we tell the truth?” And the answer is very simple: “At the moment we are under the occupation of the USA. They decide for us.” And censorship on their part is so strong that it even the major media may not speak the truth.
So I used his book as an opportunity to highlight the opinion of the people of Donbas. They are people, who won their freedom. I brought the point of view of many people who live here, wrote about what they think. There is a lot of such material, because this is my sixth trip here in the Donbas. In parallel, I led the view of nationalists from Ukraine. They say they want to be independent from Russia. But now they give their independence to the United States and it’s obvious.
One part of the book reveals how the Italian media wrote about the events after the coup in Kiev. Almost all European media, as well as our Italian, justified everything that happened. I specifically cited more than 200 fragments of articles, links to online videos about all the main events and how they were covered. It is interesting to note how many of these videos that I collected, were removed from social networks and the Internet, because the media of Ukraine and the USA decided that it’s not good propaganda. For example, there is a video called “How to kill the Coloradas in Odessa”, there you can see the corpses of burnt people in the “House of trade unions”. This same video was removed a few days later. I was able to preserve some of these commercials. One of them is a video where people throw themselves from the windows of the “House of unions”, and the Ukrainian Nazis are killing them. We spent a lot of time to run back to this information in social networks so that people could see the truth – what actually happened.
Another objective is to show how the US is trying to set people against each other. Today they want to oppose the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, and tomorrow it might happen in Italy, Poland and anywhere else. In my book I made attempts to resist this process.
– Does your book have any statistics? Where did you take them and how they can be checked?
– It is clear there is no statistics. But, as I said, it was given a lot of materials that reflects the flow of information. But there are so many facts. You can find all this and check on the Internet. For example, it’s the actions of snipers on the Maidan. The records clearly show where they shoot from. But these videos were never broadcast on European television. When I presented my book in Rome, there were representatives of the Association “Italy-Ukraine”. Now, they didn’t believe what I said and wrote. Then I showed them this video so they see what really happened. As a result, they too began to think. Many Italians realized that this is overkill.
– Is it possible somewhere to see your materials in the Russian language?
– At the moment this material exists only in Italian. On Russian it is not translated because the copyright belong to the company. But we hope that someone will want to translate into Russian.
– Tell, please, what is your specialty?
– Specialty: pharmacist.
– How circulation in Italy have your book been published and where can it be purchased?
– The circulation is more than three thousand books. You can find it in bookstores and on the Internet. You can download the electronic version too.
– I have a question about the term “genocide of Russians in Donbas”, which you used during the presentation. I would like to clarify in what context you use the term “genocide”?
– We are talking about genocide as a direct attempt to destroy the Russian-speaking population. And I want to say thank you to the fighters of the militia, because they resisted this attempt. Statistics say that more than a million Ukrainians migrated to Russia. Genocide is happening not only here, the same problem is in Ukraine itself. Those who are now opposed to the “Right sector” and the radicals, the nationalists, are at risk.
– How do you consider, whether war, like the one that unleashes the USA in Ukraine, happen in Italy or Spain?
If they’re willing, we can create inside any state what happened in Ukraine, to destroy from the inside any people. They have such opportunities. If they consider it’s necessary, they will act. In Italy one such attempt was made in 1947, when the American government decided that left-wing parties pose a threat to the United States. They thought that Italy will side with Russia.
– Do you see any pressure from the Italian authorities in connection with your activities?
– I’ll know about it when I get back to Italy.
recorded by
Lily NICHIPORCHUK
