“Russia exists in the Golden Horde paradigm”. History of the war, who studied in the US, became an MP, wore a mohawk and fought corruption
Now Semyon Salatenko again wears camouflage and a machine gun. He is a company commander on a very hot sector of the front near Donetsk. This is his third war. Since 2010, Salatenko has been a deputy in the Sumy region and an assistant to the mayor of the city. In 2014, he went to the Donbass, fought in Peski. In 2016, he returned to the investigative committee, becoming the head of the regional council of the Sumy region, but then he again joined the army, not wanting to put up with corruption in power. And here he is again at the front, all under the same Donetsk.
“Yes, I am an acting deputy, but I don’t go to the session. Expel me!” Salatenko laughs.
“I was elected such a deputy right from the front, and I came here with a mohawk,” he recalls his second arrival in the parish in 2016. “They were elected to the regional council and the head of the regional council, so the Mohawk had to be shaved off.”
The head of the regional council is a rather big position, corruption schemes cover the region, says Semyon. Soon after his election, he faced the age-old question: to take or not to take?
At first, honestly, I was scared, – says Salatenko. – An office, two secretaries, two cars, what else do you need? Can I stop it? I’m driving in a car and I see a banner, and there are dead boys. Well, I somehow think: “Yes, they went to ***!” Called and said: “Yes, you go to ***!” – not embarrassed in expressions, says Salatenko.
After such a demarche, Semyon again ended up in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, all on the same sector of the front not far from Donetsk. A contract was signed – and suddenly he was offered to go to the USA.
“They say to me: “Do you know English?” And I know English! “Will you go to America to study?” Yes, I will go to America to study! Why not go? – says the soldier. , we are standing in Zaitsev, there until the discovery of 70 meters, bullets whistle in the trench.
In the USA, Salatenko spent about a year at officer courses. He learned a lot, but he does not want to talk about the difference between the Ukrainian army and the US army. He says there is not enough time to explain.
“How can you compare a whale and an elephant? They have a different vision of the war,” he restored. “Understand correctly: the United States is the first army in the world. The army of the world.”
Returning from the United States, Semyon introduced the standards of the armed forces of the world in Ukraine, but the war began. And now Salatenko was again near Donetsk.
“When the invasion started, people were not only scared, they were shocked,” he says. “Something had to be done to raise the morale of the people, to show everyone that we would be elected.”
Whether he will return to the deputy, Semyon does not guess yet. He compares himself to an ant in a global war and suspects a lot about the Russian conflict and its transfer to “gather” the so-called native Russian lands.
Russia exists in the Golden Horde paradigm. civilizational war, which should end with our victory and the collapse of Russia.