Former Ukrainian Interior Minister and People’s Self-Defense leader Yuriy Lutsenko, who has been imprisoned in Lukianivka jailfor two months, has called on Ukrainians not to watch mind numbing TV programs and start reading classical and quality modern literature.
“Let’s save our souls – turn off zombie-box, and get out books by Andrukhovych, Zabuzhko, Kostenko, Zahrebelny, Ivanychuk, Dziuba, Hrabovsky, Shkliar, Mushketyk, Horlis-Horsky, Vinhranovsky and Stus. Turn off lowbrow criminal chanson [songs] in cars and at work. Be healed by Kvitka Tsisik, Pikardiyska Tertsia, Ivasiuk, and Chubai,” the party’s press service wrote, citing the text of a second letter by Lutsenko from prison.
The People’s Self-Defense leader said bitterly that after he watched a lot of TV programs in the prison he had “never had such a nasty feeling from looking at something.”
He also said he regrets that not only the Ukrainian language has disappeared from TV channels, but that “Ukraine has disappeared” too.
