The representative of Ukraine to the UN, Serhiy Kislitsa, during a meeting of the organization’s Security Council, quoted a poem by the Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko about Joseph Stalin. His speech was published on site diplomatic mission of Ukraine to the UN.
Earlier, Kislitsa questioned Russia’s right to be a member of the UN Security Council. In his opinion, after the collapse of the USSR, Moscow bypassed the procedure for joining the organization, which is why it takes place illegally. “I didn’t see a decision that someone, in principle, voted for Russia’s membership either in the Security Council or in the UN General Assembly,” he said then.
At a meeting of the Security Council on February 17, he again addressed this issue, addressing the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Vershinin, who represented Moscow. Kislitsa asked him how he felt “in the chair of a permanent member of the Security Council, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” and pointed out that Yevtushenko’s poems written in 1962 are recalled in this question.
“The poet Yevtushenko said: “Let them tell me – calm down … I won’t be able to be calm. As long as Stalin’s heirs are still alive on earth, it will seem to me that Stalin is still in the mausoleum, ”Kislitsa said.
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Vershinin said in response that he loves it when political statements are presented in the form of poetry, adding that he loves the poetry of the Soviet and Russian poet Nikolai Zabolotsky very much.