Despite the government’s claims about the reforms in progress, the achievement of stability and the improvement of people’s well-being are not going that well. The creation of the power vertical is certainly an advantage as now at least we know who is responsible for what. Thus, the stabilization of political life has resulted in some local achievements — they build infrastructure, but it can hardly be called economic modernization. Besides, the present government doesn’t take less international loans than the previous one. The prices for food and utilities are permanently rising, unlike the salaries, student grants, pensions and other social payments. At a time when everything in the world changes very quickly Ukraine still has its unresolved problems. However, instead of solving them the government prefers to implant into the people’s mentality certain myths that require less mental effort. Now the “terrorist” scenario is actively promoted. “I wouldn’t like to think that we observe a process of ‘chechnyazation’ of certain ultra nationalistic groups from the western Ukraine. The possibility of achieving our plans through democratic methods won’t do for the modern militants and now they are trying to provoke a power confrontation in Ukraine — they blow up monuments, create hideouts, and organize military trainings,” the Party of Regions press service quotes the MP Vadym Kolesnichenko.
Kolesnichenko has also added that “the activation of radical elements in the Ukrainian nationalistic environment was provoked by restoring historical justice through the invalidation of ex-president Yuschenko’s decree about awarding Bandera the title of the Hero of Ukraine and that this decision came to force.” (Any political party has its ecstatic “hawks,” but why did the press service spread around those provocative claims? By the way, even Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Russia supports national reconciliation).
Thus, first they impose a one-sided social policy similar to the Soviet one (they don’t recognize the Holodomor as genocide, erect a monument to Stalin in Zaporizhia, geld the Institute of the National Memory headed by the communist Soldatenko, invalidate the Hero of Ukraine title awarded to Bandera…) and split society, saying afterwards that the nationalists supposedly prepared an act of terror against the top officials of the state. “President Viktor Yanukovych and the Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn came to Prykarpattia as guests. In the village of Zahvizdia, that is on the president’s plane’s course, police found two guns with a telescopic sight kept by the people who temporary lived there! I was informed that those people belong to the group (“Stepan Bandera Tryzub.” — Author), where they confiscated an arsenal,” says the governor of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast Mykhailo Vyshyvaniuk.
Throughout the country, after the monument to Stalin in Zaporizhia had been blown up, they started arresting the members of “Tryzub,” treating them like terrorists. They were moved from one office to another — from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Security Service of Ukraine, where they were thoroughly interogated about the activities of “Tryzub” and whether they had met Slava Stetsko (as it was the case with Rostyslav Vynar). By the way, Slava Stetsko was a deputy of Ukraine. Since when is she the enemy? The government would better resolve other problems so that there aren’t any profit-motivated explosions in Makiivka. They would better fight against social extremism instead of creating artificial national extremism and then fight against it. Are they tired of living in peace or are they pushed by their “creditors”?
All of this reminds one of old and repeatedly used politician technologies focused on creating an enemy. They are used by our neighbors. However, if in Russia the democrats were called enemies, it seems that in Ukraine the nationalists are at fault. Taking into account the persistence of Ukrainian users of this technology very soon all conscious Ukrainians will become enemies. However, the authors of the artificial scenarios should keep in mind that they might actually develop in a different way. The events at the Manezhnaya Square in Moscow serve as an example.
However, this situation in Russia is long-standing. It is rooted in the remote 1980s when among the youth communities the future fascist organizations emerged.
