Quotable notes

"It's simply an orange orgy there. ... There are rows and rows of felt boots - all American-made! See! And mountains of oranges! Oranges! And the background is 'orange sea, orange sky ...' [a line from "Oranzhevaya Pesnia," a popular song for kids - ed.] Gosh! It's just ... it's a nightmare! And look here, guys: those oranges aren't just any oranges - they're loaded. People - take an orange, eat it - and take another one. See! And the hand keeps reaching, keeps reaching for it. I was on my way here; there was news. They said people in the square are getting poisoned, on a mass scale. Frequent hospitalizations. They bring people in with meningitis! What have we come to? And they keep standing, keep standing! Eyes simply glazed over! Just like that!"

- Liudmila Yanukovych, wife of presidential candidate and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, speaking at a November 29 rally in Donetsk, as quoted by the Kyiv Post.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 5, 2004, No. 49, Vol. LXXII

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