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The Battle over East vs West (Russia vs Europe) continues in Ukraine
patentlymn:
I will read the whole thing later.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240415/political-clown-zelensky-may-be-ukraines-last-president---ukrainian-politician-1117946593.html
‘Political Clown’ Zelensky May Be Ukraine’s Last President - Ukrainian Politician
In a historical exposé for Russia’s Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, Medvedchuk, who is perhaps best known for his work uncovering American biolabs in Ukraine, detailed how, in the thirty-three years of Ukrainian independence, each of its six successive presidents had a common policy – promising their people one thing and delivering something else.
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“Today, Western propagandists work to convince Ukrainians that they will not succeed without their own statehood, but in reality this statehood was sold to international corporations a long time ago,” Medvedchuk stressed, arguing that in its present form, such statehood “does not correspond to the national interests of Ukrainians.”
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It all began with Ukraine’s very first president, Leonid Kravchuk, the politician argues.
“He defeated the dissident Viacheslav Chornovil in the elections. And the people of Ukraine expected that the former communist ideologue would not pursue an anti-Russian policy or grovel before the West. This didn’t happen, and, having received power, Kravchuk began to pursue a policy much more radical than Chornovil would have. An economist by training, he triggered the collapse of the country’s economy,” Medvedchuk wrote.
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Similar processes would continue with subsequent presidents, Medvedchuk argued, from Leonid Kuchma (elected by residents of southeastern Ukraine on the expectation that he would pursue a Russia-friendly policy), to Viktor Yushchenko – only elected as a result of an unprecedented third round of voting in 2005 thanks to the first Maidan color revolution, to Viktor Yanukovych, who improved ties with Russia but continued to “flirt” with the EU. “As a result, Yanukovych, who wanted to sit on two chairs at once, lost his seat.”
When Petro Poroshenko was selected in Ukraine’s sham of an election in 2014 in the wake of the Euromaidan coup, Medvedchuk recalled, people expected him to restore peace in the Donbass and restore some semblance of cooperation with Russia, but instead got an intensification of “anti-Russia hysteria” to the level of state policy in the form of the constitutionally enshrined “obligation to join the EU and NATO,” and the creation of a puppet church in the form of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, “which launched an attack on the only canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine. If Poroshenko had declared all these intentions before the elections, he would have never received a majority of votes,” Medvedchuk believes.
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“Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and statehood have been sold, squandered and disposed of by all six of its presidents. This happened according to the same pattern: the candidate would promise one thing, but do the exact opposite. He would promise wealth, but create poverty. He would promise rule of law, but encourage lawlessness and corruption. He would promise peace but provoke war,” Medvedchuk wrote.
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Libertas:
Well, glad to see he isn't biased, coming from a state that is a uniparty czardom...
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patentlymn:
When the USSR ended Ukraine was projected to be the best of the former SSRs. Reasons were educated workforce, infrastructure, natural resources.
Instead things went to hell. IMO the oligarchs were not kept in their place as they should have been. Corruption and looting hurt many of the SSRs. In most EU countries and SSRs it is frowned upon or illegal to do the NAZI stuff but not uncommon in Ukraine. There has to be a reason why NAZI tats are not uncommon in Ukr but illegal in Poland and RU as far as i know.
Ukr spent a lot of time and energy on this fake nationalism and NAZi ideology. people in Ukr and Crimea say that the Kiev govt did nothing to improve the place after 1990. Crimea only got improvements after 2015. A crappy culture and looting can ruin a country. Look at much of Africa.
patentlymn:
https://t.me/putingers_cat_chat/261528
OTO VON BISMARCK ON UKRAINE
"Russia's power can only be undermined if Ukraine is separated from it. And those who want it, not only must separate them, but must also turn Ukraine against Russia, bleed two parts of one nation and watch brother kill brother . In order to achieve this, it is necessary to find and raise traitors among the national elite and with their help to change the self-awareness of a part of the great nation to the point that it hates everything Russian, hates its own race without even knowing it. Time will do the rest."
~ Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)
patentlymn:
Tok Tok ban added to Ukr funding bill?
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