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| The main lesson of the Kyiv Maidan: a coup never brings improvement |
| 2024-02-23 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladimir Kornilov [RIA] So ten years have passed. Ten years after the victory of the coup d'etat in Ukraine, nicknamed there "Euromaidan" and even the "revolution of dignity." Everything that Ukrainians are experiencing now is a direct consequence of this coup, carried out under the auspices of the United States and its European satellites. Like all classic coups, Maidan began with beautiful slogans and completely empty promises, not backed up by anything. It started with the promise of “tea, coffee and good mood” and ended in bloodshed. Let us remember how the leaders of the “revolution” shouted from the rostrum: “So that every person in this country saves his life! So that our country is preserved as a single power! So that our children do not cry for their fathers! So that our fathers do not cry for their children!” Now all Western media articles about the situation in Ukraine are accompanied by photographs of countless graves in military cemeteries. In fact, an entire generation of young people in this country has been lost. When The Times correspondent, who recently traveled through Ukraine to communicate with the youth there, decided to ask two 18-year-old teenagers about their plans for the future, they answered briefly: “There is no future. <…> With this corrupt government. <…>.” But remember, the fight against corruption was the main theme of the Maidan ten years ago! On all the leaflets distributed there, this point was number one. First, Petro Poroshenko knocked off the “corrupt” Viktor Yanukovych, then Vladimir Zelensky knocked off the “corrupt” Petro Poroshenko. Now even senior employees of Zelensky’s office admit in private conversations with Western correspondents : “People steal as if tomorrow does not exist.” This is it - achieving a revolution! A lot was said on Maidan about the heavenly life that Ukrainians would live in immediately after the victory of the “revolution of dignity.” The lion's share of the agitation came down to "calculations of benefits" from the upcoming association with the European Union. The organizers of the coup included a sharp decline in prices for the population, a significant increase in Ukrainian exports and an increase in industrial production as “guaranteed consequences”. Here it will be useful to remember that before the Maidan, this country’s exports reached $70 billion, and at the end of last year it earned exactly half as much. Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov, summing up the results of this decade, recalled that the country once produced 54 million tons of steel per year, and now - six million. And no matter what sector of the economy you take, the indicators will be similar. It’s all the more fun to hear Zelensky’s tales about plans to establish his own production of anything. The promises of Maidan ten years ago were particularly primitivistic. For example, one of the DJs at the rallies, TV presenter Natalya Sokolenko, joyfully promised from the podium: “Ukrainian men will live much longer. Women will also live longer. But men - much longer!” Now the main task for Ukrainian men is to hide, to escape from the military registration and enlistment offices, that is, to survive! And another Maidan DJ, Sergei Leshchenko, who was standing next to Sokolenko on the podium at that moment, is now calling on Europe to deport the Ukrainian men who managed to escape back in order to use them as cannon fodder at the front. So much for “visa-free”! In such cases, it is customary in Ukraine to ask: “Did the Maidan really stand for this?” But in fact, this is what Maidan stood for! This, of course, was not understood by many naive people who joyfully jumped in the cold with wild cries of “Whoever doesn’t jump is a Muscovite!” But these are the inevitable laws of any coups, riots, putschs and revolutions! Lenin once wrote that the driving force of any successful revolution must be “the lower classes who do not want to live in the old way.” But honestly, we must admit: a prerequisite for any successful revolution must be the deception of these “lower classes”, the promise of an unrealizable heavenly life. However, immediately after the coup, the opposite inevitably occurs: blood, dirt, darkness, devastation, a sharp deterioration in life, victims. Thus, Ukraine, having chosen the path outlined by it in the US State Department, was simply doomed to further degradation. It is clear that in Ukraine it is now customary to blame Russia for everything : if it weren’t for the “occupation,” we would now live like in Europe! This is usually said by those who, at best, “did not notice” how Ukrainian Nazis burned oppositionists in Odessa and bombed the cities of Donbass, and at worst, ardently supported these actions. For a long time, Russia tried to resolve the issue peacefully, admonished various Kyiv regimes, and called on the West to implement the Minsk agreements. But the West did not stage a coup in Kiev so that peace and prosperity would come. The original goal was to weaken Russia. Let it be at the cost of the lives and future of the Ukrainians themselves. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, summing up the decade of Maidan, said : “There is no doubt that the West has declared war against us. They do not hide it. <…> In war, the main thing is strategy, and it is not in Kiev, but far". And this strategy comes down to sacrificing Ukraine. So, having gone to the Maidan for a “good mood” and “lace panties,” the people of Kiev buried their country. Because the main result of the Maidan was a complete renunciation of sovereignty. Now it is not in Kyiv that decides how many more Ukrainians must die in order to realize the unrealizable dream of the West: “to defeat Russia on the battlefield.” What will remain of Ukraine and whether anything will remain, the true organizers of the Kyiv putsch, who still run the State Department, do not care at all! From their point of view, the end justifies the means. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Yes, Mullah. I believe that is the gist of it. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-02-23 13:13 |
| #1 So like the 1917 Bolshevik October 'Coup', then. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2024-02-23 09:03 |