Ukrainian actress, TV presenter and public figure Daria Malakhova, daughter of the founder of the Kyiv Drama Theater in Podil, Vitaliy Malakhov, commented on the scandal with the punishment cell in a Kharkiv school. She believes that this is a return to Soviet times.
The actress wrote about this on her Facebook page.
"Sentence prison is not just a word. It is a place from the past. It is the darkest point on the map of enforced silence. It is a prison, in a prison. That is why, probably, we, adults, have grown accustomed to the punishment cell since our own childhood. Historically - since Soviet times - the naughty were sent there: writers, scientists, those who thought differently. It was a way to isolate a person for being different. Therefore, when this word appears next to the concepts of "school" and "childhood", it becomes alarming," she believes.
The actress believes that considering children as enemies who need to be punished "in an adult way" is a strange idea.
"Children understand the game perfectly well. They don't need a punishment cell. Even when it's presented as a joke — like a funny word, "game," "joke" — it sounds very familiar. This is Putin's humor. Flat, Soviet, undigested. These are jokes about power, about the weak, about women. It's not funny. And this is definitely not the kind of humor that should be put into the ears of future talented Ukrainians," Malakhova believes.
The actress is convinced that isolation and punishment only create new isolation, new aggression, and new feelings of guilt.
"The desire to hold on to the solitary confinement cell is perhaps not about children. It's about us. About adults who themselves once experienced isolation, fear, humiliation. And are used to considering it the "norm". It's like a psychological desire to return to the familiar Soviet childhood, where it was tough, but understandable. And where, it seems, "something came out of us." But we know how many of us are with psychotherapists today. How many are still living with those traumas," Malakhova is convinced and calls to let the USSR go.
Earlier, Ukrainian actress, TV presenter and public figure Daria Malakhova, daughter of the founder of the Kyiv Drama Theater in Podol, Vitaliy Malakhov, shared her indignation at the news that "solidarity cells for children" are provided in Ukrainian schools.