"Моторола"

yakov_a_jerkov — 29.03.2015 "The Daily Beast" опубликовал статью, включающую в себя небольшое интервью, об Арсении Павлове, известном как "Моторола" -- Real Talk With Russia's Fake Super Soldier.

В общем-то, в статье нет ничего, что не было бы более-менее очевидно любому, кто следит за новостями об этой войне. Но, тем не менее, приведу несколько отрывков из статьи.

О реальном Арсении Павлове:

It took some time to discover what “Motorola” did before coming to Donbass. He offered virtually no reliable information. But with the assistance of some Russian colleagues we were able to pull together what appears to be an accurate, if brief, sketch:

It turned out that he had been living in Rostov near the Ukraine border for the last few years, working at a car wash. He had serious problems with Rostov’s police after he went on a drunken joyride in a car stolen from the car wash. Given a choice between going to prison and going to Donbass, he chose the latter. Virtually all the information about his subsequent adventures in the war appear to be myths cooked up by Russian media: “Motorola” is merely a brand created by the Special Forces.

Today “Motorola” rents an apartment in Donetsk for 2,500 hryvnias (currently about $106) a month and moves around in a Lada Niva that was gifted to him by right-wing Russian parliamentarian Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Из интервью Павлова:

You mentioned the Chechen War. Do you see a difference between what was happening there in the 1990s and early 2000s and what is happening here?

“Of course. In Chechnya, there was fighting between two sides, while here Ukrainian fascists try to exterminate the peaceful Russian population and want to cleanse Donbas of Russians. Donbass is Russian land, it is part of the Russian World, and we are here to protect the peaceful population from Ukrainian fascists that are supported by the West.”

By “resources,” you mean Russian troops and military vehicles?

“Russia helps us neither with vehicles nor with soldiers. All Russians here are volunteers. All you have heard about is merely a part of information war waged by Ukraine and the West. If we were assisted by Russia’s regular army, we’d be in Kiev already, the war wouldn’t become so stretched out and there would be less civilian victims. [...]”

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