“Comrade Lavrov, what kind of animal are you?”: Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN ridiculed the speech of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

At the meeting of the UN Security Council, Serhiy Lavrov used images from the work of the English writer George Orwell “The Manger”.

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhiy Kyslytsia sharply criticized the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Serhiy Lavrov in his posts on the X platform (formerly Twitter).

During a meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to multilateral cooperation, Lavrov used images from George Orwell’s book “Animal Collective” to reinforce his speech.

“In the last century, George Orwell in his novel “Animal Farm” predicted the essence of an order based on rules, where all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.Lavrov noted.

Kyslytsia, in turn, reminded that Orwell’s books were banned in the Soviet Union. He also pointed out that Lavrov’s speechwriters forgot to remind him that Orwell was a critic of Stalin and hostile to Stalinism.

“According to George Orwell, Animal Farm reflects the events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then to the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, a period when Russia lived under the communist ideology of Joseph Stalin.”, – Kislytsia wrote.

He also stated that Stalinism is revered in modern Russia. Each animal in the “Animal Collective Farm” symbolized a certain class of Soviet society:

• work horse Boxer – working class and Stakhanovites;
• the skeptical donkey Benjamin – an intelligentsia who understands everything, but does not act;
• angry dogs – employees of the NKVD;
• speechless sheep – masses of people;
• Piglet Squeak – government-controlled mass media;
• raven Moses is the clergy.

“At the top of the pyramid is a large, ferocious-looking Berkshire boar named Napoleon (an allegory for Joseph Stalin), who gradually rewrote the seven commandments of animalism (an allegorical reference to communism), the main of which began to sound like this: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”, – emphasized Kyslytsia.

“So, Comrade Lavrov, what kind of animal are you?”, – Kislytsia asked rhetorically.