I can say a lot of things as a person who regularly visited the Maidan at the key moments of the confrontation.

I heard the chant "who is not jumping a Muscovite" a couple of times. Moreover, this was back in the autumn of 2013, when it was important to emphasize that no one wants to join the Customs Union. After the "golden eagle" beat the students, it disappeared altogether and was replaced by "WHO DO NOT RIDE - TOY AZIROV" (Azarov-Prime Minister). She was shouted to jump and keep warm. About the "Muscovites" if someone, out of habit, started it, few people picked it up and it quickly faded or turned into "Azirov" - about the "Muscovites" it simply became irrelevant.

The issue of the European Union, the Customs Union and the "Muscovites" almost completely disappeared from the agenda - and the main goal was to change the government. I won’t be much mistaken if I say that even before this issue bothered everyone much more than all foreign policy taken together, and everyone was just waiting for the conditional “H” time. So the dispersal of the Maidan became the very time "H" - when it became clear to everyone that it was time to leave.

As for the "Muscovite to Gillyak" and "..Muscovite to knives ..." - I generally heard them only on TV in old videos of ultras and some kind of radicals. Never heard of it on Maidan. Perhaps somewhere on camera someone was shouting from some radicals or rather provocateurs, I don’t know. I just can’t imagine that someone could pick it up - this question was so irrelevant. A generalized attitude towards Russia was expressed only by caricatures of Putin and a poster hanging on a Christmas tree: "We love Russians, we despise Putin." If someone walked with the Russian flag, then this was regarded as support from adequate Russians and did not cause any aggression at all. Only Russian journalists could cause dissatisfaction (many who watched Russia24 already noted the distorted presentation of information).

However, it is worth noting that there was another chant: "Glory to the Nation! Death to the enemies!" But here the enemy was meant hypothetical - generalized, enemy of the people. The enemy of the people at that moment was successfully personified by the "Berkut", from whose cruelty everyone was simply fucked up. All the aggression was directed specifically at "him. If it was possible to normally jump to" WHO DOES NOT RIDE - THE BERKUT, "then perhaps they would have done so, but the rhythm is not the same ...

The situation changed only after the Anschluss of Crimea - after everyone saw that they were tearing down state flags and instead hanging Russian ones. After that, a different understanding came - and many "Russian-speakers" (even those who previously could not stand the "zapadentsev-benders") were forced to belatedly agree with the "benders" - those who had long warned about where the real enemy was .

Before finding out what the expression means, first let's look at who is called Muscovites.

If we talk about our time, then all Russians are contemptuously called Muscovites in modern Ukraine, however, as the story goes, initially in the 18th and 19th centuries, soldiers and officers of the Russian army who served on Ukrainian soil were called Muscovites.

• According to the Charter, they did not have the right to go without a uniform, make acquaintances with the local population and participate in its life. They were not even allowed to have fun, and they would not have been able to dance the same hopak being in uniform.

For reference: hopak is a Ukrainian dance, which consists mainly of various jumps (jump = jump).

In wide Cossack harem pants, this is available, not like in trousers of a military uniform.

In those days, the expression " meant a completely harmless mockery either of the poor soldiers, or of the garrison lad who did not want to take part in the dances.

Somewhat later, Muscovites began to be called already and Ukrainians who were recruited for 25 years.

At the same time, this word began to acquire an abusive character, since, as a rule, inveterate hooligans were sent to serve in the army.

Then, when the soldiers retired and returned home, then they were called so out of envy, because by local standards, they were rich, receiving a good pension.

Recently, some representatives of Ukraine call all Russians Muscovites, it’s good that there are not so many of them.

• In the classics of Ukrainian literature, the Muscovite, however, is a positive character, as we can learn from plays such as - "Moskal - charivnyk", "Wooing on Goncharivtsi", "Shelmenko-batman".

• Similar to this expression, there are such as "Who does not jump, that cop" with football fans or in Cuba - "Who does not jump is a Yankee".

The technology “Who does not jump is a Muscovite!”, in my opinion, is brilliant. In a few months, she (fooled) united a very recently very educated nation. It was always interesting who came up with it, how and why it was done - and recently I found the answer. It turns out that the European jumpers-intellectuals were not sucked out of their fingers, but stolen from the Czech writer Yaroslav Hasek. Here is an excerpt from his novel "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik", written in 1923: It was a cretin who always jumped when he heard his nickname, an unfortunate creature, offended by nature and people, a cripple, for a few gold pieces a year and for miserable grubs shepherd the village herd ... "

It’s not that associations with the alleged role of Ukrainians in the European Union arose sharply, but you can’t argue against the classic. Who wants to see for himself, let him open the chapter "BUDEJOVITSA ANABASIS SHVEIK"

With the question “how” it seems to be clear, now the question is “why”. Another quote comes to mind here:

“... The crowd is not capable of thinking. The crowd will take it for granted and will create problems for itself. As soon as we introduce a dozen of such stupid exercises for the population of the Earth and everyone meekly obeys, we will own the world ... "

Victor Suvorov, "Choice"

Everything is simple and obvious. At the entrance we take seemingly intelligent people, explain to them that jumping in unison is “For Ukraine”, and at the exit we get a high-quality Euro-Papuan nation.

Critical thinking no longer works for them and they are ready to believe in everything they are told. And the fact that we ourselves in the Donbas are shelling the cities where our loved ones live, and the fact that a Russian is an enemy, and a German is a friend, and that it is kosher for the President of Ukraine to earn money in Russia now.

A patriot of Ukraine recently wrote to me. He claims that all the great people in history are Ukrainians, he even attached a list.

The list is impressive. To my surprise, I did not find Harry Potter and Frodo Baggans in it, but I think they will still make adjustments. Such positive characters cannot be Muscovites. This is what a surge of intelligence leads to the technology "Who does not jump, that Muscovite!" Nothing can be done about it, it must be accepted.

If a whole nation dreams of grazing a flock in Europe for a few zlotys and jumping with pots on their heads in their free time, sooner or later they will succeed. As a quilted jacket, it seems to me that the idea “Who does not jump is a Muscovite!” could be improved a bit. For example, put good rhythmic music under the jumps, which at the same time will tell about the main values ​​and prospects of the new Ukrainian idea.

Sergei Vasilevsky, People's Militia of the LPR, specially News Front