Marina Ovsyannikova
Protest on Russian TV: That’s what the war opponent says
The woman is said to have given the reason that her father was Ukrainian and that the war against the neighboring country was a “crime”. Photo: –/Twitter/dpa
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Your protest action on Russian TV moves the world. The employee Marina Ovsjannikova had previously expressed her opinion on the war in a video. She is also ashamed of her own role.
Russian TV worker Marina Ovzyannikova recorded a video explaining her political position on the main news program of the Russian state channel First Channel before her sensational protest against the Ukraine war.
She wears a chain with the colors of the flags of Russia and Ukraine and refers, among other things, to the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea by Russia in 2014 and the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The wording of the video distributed online in a dpa translation:
«What is happening now in Ukraine is a crime. And Russia is the aggressor. And the responsibility for this aggression lies only on the conscience of one person – and that person is Vladimir Putin.
My father is Ukrainian, my mother is Russian – and they were never enemies. This chain on my neck is like a symbol that Russia must stop the fratricidal war immediately and that our brother peoples can still be reconciled.
In recent years, unfortunately, I have worked at Channel One and dealt with Kremlin propaganda. I am very ashamed of it now. I am ashamed that I let the TV screen lie to me. I am ashamed that I allowed Russians to be turned into zombies.
We were silent in 2014 when this all started. We didn’t come out for demonstrations when the Kremlin poisoned Navalny. We just silently watched this misanthropic regime. Now the whole world has turned its back on us. And ten more generations of our descendants will not be able to wash away the shame of this fratricidal war.
We, the Russian people, can think and are clever. It’s up to us to stop all this madness. Go demonstrate. fear nothing. You can’t lock us all up.”