"Comrade Lavrov, what kind of an animal are you?": Ukraine's UN envoy puts Russian official who quoted Orwell in his place

Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Serhii Kyslytsia, strongly responded to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who, during his speech at the UN Security Council, referred to images from the works of English writer George Orwell. The Russian politician chose to quote a writer whose books were banned or censored in the Soviet Union.

Kyslytsia wrote about this on the social network X. Unlike Lavrov's "speechwriters" who worked on his speech, the world is well aware of Orwell's original works and understands that he criticized the dictator Joseph Stalin, who is now loved and revered in Russia and was hostile to Stalinism.

"Who does pathetic Lavrov take us for when he tries to mobilize Orwell in his support?" the Permanent Representative noted. "Perhaps he does not know that New York diplomats have read Orwell, and not that they are by-products of MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations – ed.) in the Soviet Union, where Orwell's books were banned or censored," Kyslytsia wrote.

On Tuesday, during a UN Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation, Lavrov tried to confirm his words with a quote from George Orwell's "Animal Farm".

"In the last century, George Orwell, in his short story "Animal Farm," had already foreseen the essence of a rule-based order where all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. If you do the will of the hegemon, you are allowed to do anything. And if you dare and start defending your national interests, you will be declared an outcast and subject to sanctions," Lavrov said.

Kyslytsia noted that Lavrov's speechwriters did not mention that George Orwell was a critic of Stalin and was hostile to Stalinism. According to Orwell himself, his satirical work "Animal Farm", which Lavrov tried to quote, reflects the events that preceded the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. This was a period when Russia lived under the rule of Joseph Stalin's communist ideology, which is almost deified in Russia today.

Kyslytsia explained that each animal in "Animal Farm" represents a certain class of Soviet (and at the same time modern Russian) society: Boxer, the workhorse, symbolizes the working class and Stakhanovites; Veniamin, the skeptical donkey, represents the intelligentsia, who understands everything but does nothing; evil dogs represent NKVD officers; Moses (Raven), who promises the animals a wonderful place beyond the clouds called Sugar Mountain after his death, represents the clergy; silent sheep represent the masses of people; and Squealer, the pig, represents the government-controlled media.

"At the top of the pyramid is a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar named Napoleon (an allegory of Joseph Stalin), who gradually rewrote the Seven Commandments of Animalism (an allegorical reference to communism), the main one of which began to sound like this: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," wrote Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN.

"So what kind of animal are you, Comrade Lavrov?" Kyslytsia asked ironically.

Earlier it was reported that after the strike on Okhmatdyt, Russia organized a gala dinner at the UN. Representatives of the terrorist state enjoyed Kyiv-style cutlets while rescuers in Kyiv were still dismantling the rubble of the buildings of the Okhmatdyt children's hospital destroyed by a Russian missile.

As OBOZ.UA previously reported, Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Serhii Kyslytsia, emphasized that calling Russia's war against Ukraine a "Ukrainian crisis" is wrong and unlawful. Nevertheless, some members of the UN Security Council still continue to give this name to the Russian aggression against our country.

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