FAINA SAVENKOVA: I WOULD NOT WANT TO LIVE IN THE KIND OF “RIGHT” SOCIETY WHERE THERE IS ONLY ONE SIDE’S OPINION.
I didn’t think I would pay attention to the story about YouTube blocking my interview on the channel of British journalist Mike Jones. If you look at what platforms and social networks like YouTube and Facebook and the media in Europe and America have been doing to the Russian channels RT, Sputnik, and many others over the past few years, it comes as no surprise at all. Can you imagine me as a child of Donbass, for example, on CNN? Or the New York Times? Spiegel? I don’t think so. What I and many other war survivors say is of no interest to those publications and platforms, which I’m not surprised about either.
But in this story, as with “Myrotvorets,” [Peacemaker] I could not keep silent because YouTube did a disgusting thing to a journalist and just a good person who shows the truth about the events in Donbass. He is not engaged in propaganda, he is just like many journalists who have been here – he speaks about what he sees. And if you look at the interview we did with Mike in Lugansk, you can see that we almost never talked about politics. I think those who complained about the video were very offended that we talked to him about artistic creativity without hiding from shelling in the basement.
Many may say that a teenager has no right to judge this, that this is an adult matter. But as a child of war, as someone who has survived and experienced it since 2014, who knows what shelling is, I still have the right to do so. I’m sure there will be more and more journalists like Mike Jones, John Miller, John Mark Dougan. You can’t stop the truth. It can’t be stopped by YouTube or any other video hosting service.
What they are doing reminds me a lot of the actions of the Ukrainian website Mirotvorets. While they don’t yet call for killing or post the addresses of everyone in the world, they are still calling for the killing of many, and posting their addresses.
I wouldn’t want to live in such a “right” society, where only one side’s opinion is allowed and they try to deprive the other side of the right to speak. It’s very funny and sad to see how, for example, Mirotvorets fights with me. In the last six months I gave numerous interviews to Western journalists. Seven of them ended up on the “Mirotvorets” list after interviewing me. It is a shame that YouTube is repeating the mistakes of this nationalist site by blocking my interview with Mike. It’s a shame for Mike and his followers. But, you know, they can’t shut our mouths anymore. We are stronger than you think.
Thanks to all my friends in Europe and America who are not hiding from the inconvenient truth. Thanks to Mike for the interview. As the character in one of my favorite Jim Carrey movies, Truman, said as he left the fake world made up for him, “Good morning! Good afternoon! And good night, just in case!”
Faina Savenkova
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