“Comrade Lavrov, what kind of animal are you?” - Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN mocked the Russian Foreign Minister for quoting Orwell
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Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations ridiculed Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov for using George Orwell's Animal Farm to justify Russia's actions, noting that Orwell was a critic of Stalinism and the book allegorized the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union.
During a meeting of the UN Security Council, the Russian Foreign Minister used images from the work of English writer George Orwell's Animal Farm. Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya reacted to Lavrov's words, UNN reports .
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During his speech, Lavrov said that “in the last century, George Orwell, in his novel Animal Farm, had already foreseen the essence of a rule-based order where all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
In turn, Kyslytsia, in his post on the social network X, wondered who Lavrov was taking the UN representatives for when he tried to mobilize Orwell in his support.
"Perhaps he doesn't know that New York diplomats have actually read Orwell and are not a byproduct of MGIMO in the Soviet Union, where Orwell's books were banned or censored," Kyslytsia wrote.
He recalled that George Orwell was a critic of Stalin and was hostile to Moscow-driven Stalinism. According to George Orwell, "Animal Farm" reflects the events that preceded the Russian Revolution of 1917 and moved into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, a period when Russia lived under the rule of Joseph Stalin's communist ideology.
He pointed out that Stalinism is no longer honored in Russia today. At the same time, each animal in Animal Farm represented a certain class of Soviet society:
- Boxer's workhorse represents the working class and Stakhanovists;
- The raven Moses is the clergy;
- Benjamin, the skeptical donkey, is an intellectual who understands everything but does not act;
- evil dogs - NKVD officers;
- silent sheep - masses of people;
- Piggy Squealer - government-controlled media.
"At the top of the pyramid is a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar named Napoleon (an allegory of Joseph Stalin), who gradually rewrote the Seven Commandments of the animal kingdom (an allegorical reference to communism), the main one of which began to sound as follows: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." So, Comrade Lavrov, what kind of animal are you?" Kyslytsia wrote.
