This is a great question I had a burning desire to answer but I never know if anybody would be interested, so thank you for giving me a chance to delve into this subject.
Arestovych became a target of a massive online hate campaign when he misspoke in the aftermath of one of the most horrific airstrikes by Russia against the city of Dnipro. People are traumatized and emotions fly high, so he had to resign from his government position as a result of this clumsy wording he chose. I was at a live event with him 10 minutes before he misspoke and he was offering psychological help to a woman (not me) in a terrible personal situation. He dragged her out of her awful mental state at a significant personal cost. I saw it, and I’ll never stop admiring a person who would go out like this for a complete stranger.
Arestovych was absolutely wiped out after that event and as a result he misspoke, which cost him his career. Yet he never mentioned that woman to explain what happened. Again, nothing but deep admiration is what I feel towards such extraordinary self-restraint and truly Christian charity. (Arestovych is deeply religious).
What happened when the wave of anger over his comments was unleashed is that he never closed himself up as self-defense. There was a lot of macho posturing in this as he kept repeating that he’s completely immune to the opinions of strangers. But he’s not immune. Nobody is. He’s walking wounded and it will take time to recover. He’s been fumbling since then, making more missteps but I’m the last person to judge a fellow for losing his footing after such events.
On the positive side, he’s been in the US for some time now, meeting with conservative politicians and thinkers (e.g. Jordan Peterson whom he deeply respects). Now he’s finally bringing to Ukrainian audiences a serious, meaningful and reliable analysis of what’s happening in the US. This is invaluable and long overdue given that there hasn’t been much change in the understanding of the West since we discussed it in Soviet kitchens behind the Iron Curtain.
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That’s fascinating!
I am interested, because this is not something available to me as an English speaker, for the most part.
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Thank you for the interest! There are such interesting discussions going on. People speak with such freedom. One only notices the difference when one loses this freedom. I still sometimes catch myself trying to say things differently so that no sensibility would be offended and then I realize, “gosh, I don’t have to do it anymore! Nobody minds!”
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