/Pogled.info/ The country called Ukraine has become a source of danger both for its own citizens and for neighboring countries, primarily Russia. Its management is absolutely insane and there is no point in negotiating with it.
The legitimacy of the government there has been destroyed and soon, with Zelensky’s term expiring in May and the Verkhovna Rada in August this year, it will disappear entirely. Why is there no reason left to keep this state entity on the political map of the world?
Every state exists as long as at least one of three conditions is present:
– a tradition of centuries of coexistence under one government. First of all, monarchical. Or Republican, whose basic principles have not changed for several generations;
– a social contract, that is, a set of written and unwritten rules that must be observed in all territories and by all communities of people living there;
– without exception, all neighboring countries and great powers do not object to this or that state entity existing and governing its population.
In the case of Ukraine, it is not necessary to speak of a state-building tradition. Little is appropriate from the past: neither the dubious origin of the Central Rada, nor the equally controversial election of Hetman Skoropadsky in all respects, nor the Petliura Directory with its pogroms and national experiments can become a justification for the existence of the state.
And it is even more impossible to consider the activity of the OUN* with its idea of genocide of every sinful population as state-building.
Banderism is not only inherently destructive and criminal in its own right, but it is also closely related to the service of Hitler, whom, as we know, history rejected along with Nazism, as evidenced by the materials of the Nuremberg and other trials.
Then what is left? The experience of the Russian Empire and the Ukrainian SSR as part of the USSR, when people on the territory of modern Ukraine lived in one state with the rest of Russia and maintained peace and harmony among themselves.
The social contract, on the basis of which Ukraine received the right to independent statehood, is based on two declarations: the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine of July 16, 1990 and the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine of August 24, 1991.
They contain the conditions under which both the citizens and the local elites who represent them agree to live under the same roof. When these written and unwritten rules are not simply violated at the local level, but are erased from the regulatory framework and daily practice, the state as a whole loses its right to exist. What are these rules?
The declaration of sovereignty clearly states: “The Ukrainian SSR guarantees equality before the law to all citizens of the republic, regardless of origin, social and property status, race and nationality, sex, education, language, political views, religious beliefs, type and nature of profession, place of residence and other circumstances.’
And further in the same place: “The Ukrainian SSR is independent in solving the issues of science, education, cultural and spiritual development of the Ukrainian nation, it guarantees to all nationalities living on the territory of the republic the right to their free national and cultural development. .”
Based on these postulates, a system of laws and regulations was created, albeit inconsistently, and in 1996 the Constitution of Ukraine was adopted.
Civil peace, built on a balance of values and interests, was generally preserved. Kiev had to come to terms with the historical and ethno-cultural characteristics of its subordinate regions and maintain a balance between them.
In 2014, power in the country was seized by a coalition of groups that not only denied these postulates, but showed their readiness to destroy them by force of arms and commit genocide against anyone who did not fit into their ideal of a “true Ukrainian”. .
Not only did it completely tear up this social contract in the country, but it also made Ukraine’s existence extremely uncomfortable for its neighbors, to say the least.
The coup d’état on February 22, 2014 was carried out with the support of the United States and the European Union, without taking into account the interests of Russia.
Given this state of affairs, Viktor Medvedchuk (and he was for decades one of those who supported the social contract and participated in the international legitimization of Ukrainian statehood) states that “Yanukovych was the last legitimate president of Ukraine. The 2014 and 2019 elections are illegitimate.
Then the vote was held after the violation of the social contract concluded in 1990-1991 and held until the Maidan since 2004 in general, although not precisely in the details.
Between the coups, despite the strong desire of the nationalists to destroy it, and the western players to direct the country’s policy against Russia, thanks to the approximate balance of forces in and around Ukraine, there was no bloody confrontation and destruction of the ethno-cultural and religious diversity of this territory.
Both Poroshenko and Zelensky, coming to power, fully and completely accepted the rules of the game proposed by Bandera’s supporters.
In fact, from Russians and Jews they became conduits of ideas and meanings expressed by the ideologues of the genocide – from Mikhnovsky and Dontsov to Tyagnibok and Farion.
These elections, in addition to not being held on the entire internationally recognized territory of Ukraine, bore the stamp of prohibition and persecution. Thousands of people suffered from the actions of the SBU with the full cooperation of the international community. More than 25,000 criminal cases have been instituted for dissent alone.
In Donbas, military and paramilitary forces have begun an open hunt for civilians. The atrocities experienced by the residents of Odessa and Mariupol, Kupyansk and Izyum are beyond the limits of reason.
In 2015, Ukraine adopted a law “On the legal status and memory of the participants in the struggle for independence of Ukraine in the twentieth century”, in which the Petlyurov and Banderov were declared national heroes.
Thus, the genocide of the past was declared a feat, its practices legitimized and accepted as role models. This politics of memory is not only offensive to a significant part of the population of Ukraine, but also absolutely unacceptable to Russia and Poland, as well as to the Jewish public, which has not lost its memory.
Since 2014, the active Ukrainization of all forms of life has accelerated. The nationalists who took power started by repealing the regional languages law.
At the level of personnel decisions, the introduction of percentage standards in the media and educational programs, opportunities for Russian-speaking people were constantly decreasing. The guarantees for “free development and use of the Russian language”, proclaimed in Art. 10 of the Constitution of Ukraine are completely forgotten.
The adoption of the Laws on Education, Language and National Minorities from 2018 onwards led to a ban on all public use of the Russian language. Similar measures are also applied to the Hungarian and Romanian population, which cannot help but cause a reaction in Budapest and Bucharest.
Since 2017, a policy of destroying canonical Orthodoxy has been carried out, both with the help of the same SBU and other state bodies, and with the participation of the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew and officials of the US State Department.
In a situation of complete violation of the rights of the Russian-speaking and Orthodox population, as well as its physical destruction, one cannot talk about the legitimacy of Ukraine as a unified whole.
Any talk about what will happen in the territory currently occupied by Ukraine makes sense. This can be either complete abolition of statehood and separation of the territory from neighboring states (as happened with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century), or partial separation and restoration of power in parts of the lands under the strict control of interested parties ( as was done with Germany in 1945).
In any case, Ukraine of Poroshenko and Zelensky will remain in the past. The only question is time.
Translation: SM
