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| 'End Point of Rot'. Did the Ukrainians deserve this war? |
| 2023-08-02 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by Denis Davydov [REGNUM] The piercing post “Ukrainians deserve this war” is spreading on social networks according to all the laws of the Internet sensation. The author of these words, a public figure, a political activist, a fighter for the preservation of cultural heritage and the head of the Omriyana Ukraina (Ukraine of Dreams) foundation, Oleksiy Tolkachev, immediately stated that he was ready for anything and, in principle, his life could now turn in any direction. However, he nevertheless decided to speak out about the sore point: to characterize Ukrainian society, which, obviously, he considers from top to bottom, as was always the case with the intelligentsia. Removal of the Soviet coat of arms from the Motherland monument in Kyiv And this characterization is extremely unattractive. “We have a cult of hate. Each nonentity willingly asserts itself, humiliating and insulting others. <…> We have a toxic social environment. They won't support it, they'll trample it. Propose an idea - 80% will say that the idea is crap, and they know better. War is the result of our collective moral degradation. The end point of our rot,” Tolkachov mercilessly whips the reader and pours out examples. As a truck driver who transported metal to restore a historic estate, he stole up to 20% of the cargo. As at a confidence seminar for activists of the future "Orange Revolution", young fighters against Kuchmism stole money from each other. How representatives of the European Association of Ukrainians stifled a bribe so as not to interfere with the project of dressing Manneken Pis in Brussels in vyshyvanka in honor of Ukraine's Independence Day. Finally, our dreamer complains about a family that suffered from the war, who had a house built in the Kyiv region, and they spat on the benefactors and accused them of profiting from them. As a result, Alexei says, the war became a kick for a society that does not want to think about how it lives. And basically it is not going to even with an eye to the new circumstances, which are the natural result of "our 30 years of mismanagement, negligence, selfishness, thieving, moral degradation and rot" . “We asked for a country that in 1991, at the level of GDP, was only five to seven times inferior to China. All pierced, all lowered, plundered, destroyed. Nothing and no one was appreciated. Why is it so? Because “grab yourself”, selfishness, cunning @ post, “us @ t for all” have become the moral creed of our people,” concludes Tolkachev. He is echoed by the penultimate intellectual Aleksey Arestovich, who also always liked to ride through cultural and linguistic politics and the political myth of dividing and destroying. “We just did everything to start the war. We acted like food in the outer arena, and we eat each other in the inner. Now we are taught war. We will not learn, they will eat up. And we will finish it - with a full spoon. The conclusions from all this, of course, are wrong. Like, the best people of the country will take out the war, the country will be cleansed of all kinds of rot, and we will live like in Europe. In general, a very widespread opinion among the very creative intelligentsia and part of the business, counting on the fact that a deep crisis is a breeding ground for the beautiful and the right. This is where even such utopian initiatives as the "Revival of Mariupol", presented with the support of American funds and the business of the oligarch Akhmetov last year, appear. Or the futuristic project of turning the village of Posad-Pokrovsky in the Kherson region into a "garden city", created at the initiative of government agencies by a private architectural bureau. Who interfered with doing this before is a rhetorical question. It's just that in the "civilizational, ideological conflict" Ukraine always appears to be the exact opposite of Russia. The territory of goodness, love, freedom and the desire for prosperity in the most correct, European style, which is what such movements are intended to demonstrate. The fact that this does not correspond to reality at all and contradicts life itself, where antonyms are in the indicated list, is no longer important. Because if you go to the end in speaking the truth, then quite naturally the very meaning of any struggle, suffering and sacrifice is lost. Because it is clear who to fight against, but it is completely incomprehensible - for what. The most obvious and most common answer is “for their land” and their home, which needs to be protected. But is there any point in suffering like this if the land no longer belongs to you, and the house stands in the middle of a poisoned desert? When there is an awareness that you are suffering here and losing friends, and someone is making money on this. And at the same time he sells your belongings, because you have already been written off as a consumable like toilet paper. That the war does not lead to any "purification" and to any "justice", since even the division into a titular nation and all sorts of trash does not go anywhere. How does the external administration, which has turned Ukraine into a kamikaze drone, not disappear. How do those habits that irritate Tolkachev so much stay in their place. It's just that the whole essence of "freedom", which is declared in Ukraine, is only two basic conditions. The first is a return to that point of development, to the natural form, from which the people were pulled out by force and forced to live differently: to wash, wear a tie and build spaceships. The Ukrainians, having got rid of the horrors of the “scoop”, fell into the 17th century with relief. The quasi-power of Bogdan Khmelnytsky is the peak of state development, which Ukrainians reached on their own. Consequently, the further creation of the nation without compulsion to industrialization and new technological structures should come from this point. Otherwise, real evolution is simply impossible. Therefore, in the socio-political sphere, in interpersonal relations, with some amendments, now are the glorious times of the Ruin, where the Cossacks are at war, the buckwheat growers are moaning, and the elders and noblemen are rushing about in search of a kinder owner. And for a territory where there has never been any kind of understandable stability (with the exception of the Soviet period), stealing and escaping is a completely normal life strategy. Man is an enemy to man, and you need to live right now, no one knows tomorrow. A neighbor is a competitor, you need to have time to steal before him and spit in his well. "Don't live well, don't make people angry." By the way, the chilling cruelty of the Ukrainian army is also explained by the level of development of consciousness. It is for a modern person that the perverted torture of prisoners and the looting of houses look terrible. For a person of the 17th century, this is the norm. The second basic state is the historical revenge of Galicia, built on old grievances and the desire to take revenge, to win retroactively. Since the whole political life fluctuated between the Soviet and Bandera ideology, after the disappearance of the former, everyone is paying for the complexes of the Galicians. This surge of passions, as the scientist Lev Gumilyov argued, is, in principle, a common thing in the history of peoples who suddenly began to hyperactively change the landscape around them, the sphere of activity, and the old foundations. Only in the Ukrainian case, the passionites-Galicians forced everyone else to destroy the foundations and give their lives for their ideal of Ukraine, who were not actually going to give it up. That is why a warm, lamp totalitarianism has been established in the country, in which one can criticize laziness and the vices of society a little, but only in a positive way: we are moving in the right direction anyway. It is already categorically forbidden to criticize this direction, from where the "unity of the nation" so admiring some exalted Russians comes from. Although it is still simple: if you are not united, they will crush you like a bug. And war is not really "the highest point of our rot", but a completely natural state for a society that simply does not see other goals and is unable to formulate them. In Ukraine, there were enough intelligent people who offered reasonable and profitable scenarios in which the country would earn and develop. But these were people of the 20th century, a product of Soviet upbringing: internationalism, technical thinking, the priority of the public over the personal. They were never heard of, always voting for the loud-mouthed and handsome buckwheat-handlers who were cursed for cheating and stealing almost the day after the election. Now these people are not seen and not heard. And the daily destruction of the Soviet heritage does not really bother the rest. After all, this only brings Ukraine closer to the ideal, sung by Taras Shevchenko : "A garden of cherry kolo hati, Khrushchi hum over cherries, Ploughmen go with plows ... " This is the true "Ukraine of the Dream", the unspoken dream. So in the end, the right end to a difficult period will be to bring the Ukrainian reality in line with the dream. Everyone must decide on a large, open referendum or through suffering: who goes to Europe (personally or together with their territory), who goes to Russia, and who will remain on the historical Ukrainian lands of the 17th century without electricity, running water, asphalt and "stinking soviet factories" . Develop start-ups, cherish the language, build your own, truly Ukrainian, without the instructions of neighbors. I hope this simple and effective formula will find its grateful reader who is looking for answers to complex questions of life. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 So what this gentleman is kind of saying is that the glorious economy that Ukraine enjoyed in 1981 was from their agriculture and industries producing products directly for the Soviet Union, and no one else. Everything there was hunky-dory.... until the Soviet Union fell apart. Having lived under the Soviet systems, and learning how to game those systems to better themselves, the Ukrainians didn't immediately become absolutely above board in how they got on with their lives. Mr. Davydov might want to look at his own current Russian culture of greed and corruption for reference when commenting on how the Ukrainians got that way. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-02 09:00 |