In what way is today\u2019s regime in Ukraine any different than the Bolshevik regime? The Communists committed crimes driven by ideology while Yanukovych\u2019s regime is doing the same, only basing its actions on criminal logic.<\/p>\n
The government has usurped authority in the country in virtually an undisguised manner. All roads to a legal and democratic resolution of the socio-political conflict have been blocked. The regime has assumed the role of a terrorist who has taken hostages and is threatening their lives with a knife to their throats.<\/p>\n
The main goal is to not relinquish power at all cost. In 2004, Yanukovych declared the following sacramental phrase: \u201cWe won\u2019t be forced and squeezed out of power.\u201d Under this maxim, beginning in 2010, an entire authoritarian infrastructure has been in the making \u2013 seemingly democratic for the West, while in fact dictatorial for the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n
Political pundits have helped Yanukovych to appear as a \u201cpeace dove\u201d and have learned to send the right messages to the West in a timely fashion. Evidently, the effects had been incredibly successful. At the same time, the Opposition \u2013 with its parliamentary mandate based on democratic values \u2013 was being taken for a ride by the criminal regime, which for the umpteenth time deceived the Opposition, proudly proclaiming: \u201cWe fooled them yet again.\u201d<\/p>\n
If such a tactic, based on duplicity and deception kept on producing such unequivocal results, who would shy away from it? Even today, during its extreme clashes with the Ukrainian people, the regime\u2019s position is one and the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cI call upon the representatives of all political parties, Reverend Fathers, and members of the community to a national dialogue. I am personally willing to take part in such a round table.\u201d Such was the declaration of Yanukovych, aimed at placating the West. It worked because the West is credulous when it comes to promises.<\/p>\n
And this is why Ukrainian Prime Minister Azarov recently boasted on the \u201cRussia 24\u201d TV channel that the latest events in Ukraine cannot serve as a pretext for the US to introduce sanctions against Ukrainian officials: \u201cI am not even considering this issue in any serious way because our relations, including those with the United States, are strategic and long-term, and this episode, taking place in Kyiv, in my opinion, bears no grounds for even discussing sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n
In fact, each of the so-called \u201cround tables\u201d which convened over the course of the last two months has been nothing but theatres of the grotesque, which have only convinced the people that this regime understands only the language of force. For this reason, a portion of the population was compelled to engage in violent resistance, and in so doing seemed to be drawing upon the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.<\/p>\n
Today, when people are literally dying on the barricades in Kyiv, we are appealing to our partners in the West: do you recall the words of the preamble? Do you concur that \u201cit is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law?\u201d<\/p>\n
Even today are we still to hear rhetoric about a \u201cdemocratically elected president,\u201d when Europe itself experienced the precedent of a \u201cdemocratically elected\u201d Reichsf\u00fchrer of Germany?<\/p>\n
Thus far, I\u2019ve referred only to the Ukrainian regime. However, scrutinizing its actions without taking into account the Kremlin, is analogous to analyzing the Moon\u2019s trajectory without the Earth\u2019s gravity.<\/p>\n
Contemporary Ukraine is literally flooded with agents of Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service, who are thoroughly executing a very specific plan devised by Putin.<\/p>\n
\u2013 to destabilize the situation in Ukraine to such a degree that under circumstances involving unorganized \u201cblind\u201d revolts, all signs of democracy and all evidence of the \u201cOrange\u201d threat to Russia would be liquidated; in case of complications, the plan calls for \u201cextending a helping hand to the fraternal Ukrainian people,\u201d invading Ukraine with Russia\u2019s Armed Forces or at divide the country;<\/p>\n
\u2013 to discredit Yanukovych\u2019s regime in the eyes of the West to such a degree that the latter is forced to accept Russia\u2019s control over Ukraine as a last resort to save the country;<\/p>\n
\u2013 to depose Yanukovych at the right moment and replace him with the \u201ccrisis manager,\u201d namely Viktor Medvedchuk, who steadfastly continues to profess his loyalty to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n
Gazing into Putin\u2019s eyes, one can truly see only one thing: gloom. His logic is based on the premise of the \u201cpost-Versaille\u201d humiliation and the need for revenge for the sake of the rebirth of the \u201cgreatness and glory of Russia\u201d and a new partition of the world.<\/p>\n
The role of the \u201cspecial geopolitical case\u201d which in 1939 was apparently assumed by \u201cfascist Poland,\u201d is today being played by so-called \u201cnationalist\u201d Ukraine \u2013 in the eyes of Putin \u201cnot even a state, only a territory.\u201d It must completely disappear out of existence or at least be dismembered.<\/p>\n
The parallel with the Nazi phenomenon is obvious \u2013 only blind \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d would not recognize it. Nevertheless, this is an extremely dangerous scenario for the world: Western politicians are gravely underestimating the nature and severity of the Ukrainian crisis. In just a few days it might be too late.<\/p>\n
This is no longer about the necessity of a \u201cMarshall Plan for Ukraine\u201d \u2013 Europe missed the boat on that one long ago. The situation now calls for a broad global coalition for the sake of stemming the tide of the new revanchist wave, the elements of which take such delight in their ability to continuously deceive the entire global diplomatic corps.<\/p>\n
Let us recall the lessons of World War II: those who forsake (renounce, reject) the protection of values for the sake of their own safety, will inevitably pay with this safety for the renewal of the fundamental values of human civilization.<\/p>\n
Myroslav Marynovych<\/strong> Section of Letters<\/span> \u00a9 Waynakh Online<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In what way is today\u2019s regime in Ukraine any different than the Bolshevik regime? The Communists committed crimes driven by ideology while Yanukovych\u2019s regime is doing the same, only basing its actions on criminal logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"views":218,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11055,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPrisoner of Conscience during the Brezhnev era,
\nCurrently Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine<\/p>\n