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Coca-Cola, Mickey Mouse, jeans and Playboy are to blame for an apparent moral decline in east Ukraine, a leader of the pro-Russian separatists told propaganda channel News Front.

Alexander Zakharchenko heads Donetsk People’s Republic, one of two self-declared republics in eastern Ukraine. Russian-backed rebels in Donetsk and Luhansk declared their independence from Ukraine while pro-European protesters ousted then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in early 2014.

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