Euvgenia Parakhina has finally responded to the brutal war in Ukraine. A month and a half after defending Vladimir Putin on the talk show VI Today, she now says her heart is crying.
The Russian Euvgenia Parakhina, known for dance shows at RTL, caused quite a few frown eyebrows a month and a half ago with her performance in VI Today. “Everyone is suggesting that Russia is going to invade,” she said annoyed. “Point one: Putin has been shouting everywhere, ‘We don’t want to invade Ukraine, we don’t want war.’”
“Why war?”
Euvgenia downplayed the Russian threat. “I just got back [uit Rusland] and I’ve talked to a lot of people and followed the news and people there say, ‘Why war?’ People are still really traumatized by World War II. All families have lost someone and they absolutely do not want war.”
Russia doesn’t want war at all, she said. “The moment they say that Russia is going to invade, they don’t want that. They will do everything they can to prevent that.”
Euvgenia defends
Euvgenia expressed understanding for the objections of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Okay, Putin has a problem with NATO. Why? After the Second World War there was a kind of world division: Russia, America and the European cities. There was a buffer in between, there were communist countries like the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania.”
At that time, they were not yet affiliated with NATO, according to Euvgenia. “But in recent years everything has been added, so what do you have now? You have Russia and European countries that are right on the border with Russia. So Putin keeps shouting, ‘They are sitting in front of our door and they are placing missiles. Missiles in Romania and Poland towards Russia.’”
Logical
It is logical that Putin calls that, according to Euvgenia. “What do you think? Shall we start thinking the other way around? We are here in the Netherlands and tomorrow it will be said: rockets will be placed at the border in Groningen towards Amsterdam and The Hague. How do you feel then? Russian missiles there. What will happen then?”
Johan Derksen: “You are now telling a fairly long story, but what you really want is to approve Putin’s policy.”
Euvgenia: “No, I don’t want to endorse Putin’s policy, I want to make it clear that in Europe a lot of things are very easily seen in black and white and not nuanced.”
Aggressor
Paul de Leeuw: “Russia is an aggressor.”
Euvgenia: “That’s how Russia experiences America’s missiles.”
Paul: “No, with all due respect, NATO is not an aggressor, absolutely not. We don’t want a war at all.”
Johan: “I read in the administration that we receive about you that you do not think Putin is a dictator. Then I think: someone who changes the constitution to stay in control for life and liquidate every opponent, that starts to look a bit like a dictatorship, isn’t it?”
Euvgenia: “Well, I’m not saying it’s not a dictator, it’s a very strong leader with a very straight way of governing. Very clear. You can call him dictator, but is Rutte also dictator? Mark Rutte?”
Wilfred Genee: “It’s getting to be a pretty surreal conversation.”
Euvgenia reacts
A month and a half after Euvgenia’s surreal performance, on day four of the war in Ukraine, she finally responded last night to the fact that Putin did start a brutal war.
Euvgenia: “Pain… My heart is crying. The nightmare, which I never thought possible, has become reality. I have no words for it… To the depths of my being I am against war.”
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