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About Making a Fairy Tale Happen
Jun. 14th, 2017 07:42 pmО том, как сказку можно сделать былью
[Ru]
http://nikpavl2002.dreamwidth.org/56337.html
[Eng]
No matter however you slice it, without the absorption of Ukraine, Russia can’t be reborn as an empire. An unsuccessful attempt to implement the annexation of our country in 2004 forced the Russian authorities to take more careful measures to destroy the Ukrainian statehood in order to make the process irreversible and guarantee Ukraine's membership in the Russian Federation.
The bringing to power of the puppet government headed by president Yanukovich was to ensure the implementation of the plan for Ukraine's "peaceful entry" into the "unified and indivisible" RF no later than 2014.
But Russian president Putin’s plans were not destined to come true. However, there is no merit in that of either the Ukrainian people or the new "revolutionary" power under the leadership of the president-"peacemaker" Poroshenko. Say what you will, but the Russian special services have worked in Ukraine thoroughly, destroying the apparatus of state administration, without which the current power a priori is not able to realize its powers of authority.
As for the "fifth column" of Russia and the branched intelligence network of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) in Ukraine, they have not disappeared anywhere, but just temporarily lost their efficiency and certainly not of their own free will. Something similar happened to the Russian army, which was ready to carry out a full-scale invasion of the territory of Ukraine.
A holy place is never empty [English equivalent: The throne is never vacant], and the number of those wishing to take the laurels of the winners, who stopped the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine, is growing every day. The only thing is that just none of them can predict the development of events even in the near future, but for the professional liars this is also not a problem.
The current Ukrainian government is lying thoroughly and selflessly. If you follow its claims, the reforms in the country are in full swing, and the economy is experiencing an unprecedented rise due to investments from the West, which is looking forward to Ukraine's accession to the European Union and is ready to grant it a visa-free regime, despite the continued occupation of the part of its territory by the Russian troops.
The situation painfully resembles the plot of Andersen's fairy tale "The New Dress of the King" about two cunning people who managed to convince the monarch that they sewed a wonderful dress supposedly becoming invisible exclusively for fools or people who are not in their place.
Similarly, prime minister Yatsenyuk and president Poroshenko tell the whole world the fairy tales about "reforms that only fools do not see." Apparently, in their opinion, all the rest should consider as such the Ukrainian people, the investors and the world community.
Just one small thing is lacking: to find a boy who will inform everyone that there are no reforms in Ukraine and that they are not expected in the near future. And while the one was not found, the Ukrainian government, represented today by a group of mass-entertainers, "powdering" the brains of ordinary people, takes their attention by holding the mass events. It can be the election of anyone anywhere, or the celebration of anniversaries and dates.
The persistence of the Ukrainian president, who tries to convince the people and the entire world community that the Minsk agreements will lead to a peaceful settlement of the conflict with Russia, is surprising. At the same time, no one is asking the question: why is Putin so anxious to recreate in the borders of the former USSR an empire, based on the Russian Federation? The answer is simple. The collapse of the USSR symbolized not so much the fall of the communist regime as the dismemberment of a single state into a number of territories, one of which possessed a real statehood, and all the rest had to create it.
It is worth noting that in the current conditions this is impossible. Among these pseudo-states there was Ukraine, since the proclamation of independence and sovereignty doesn’t at all mean real possession of them. The reunification of the newly emerging republics at the level of economies into a single union was viewed as inevitable, since the infrastructure of the former USSR lost its meaning and significance within a single republic. If Putin succeeded, then, having gathered all the former Soviet republics into a single empire, he would automatically receive, if not all, but still most of the former power of the USSR. And it was not necessary to reinvent the bicycle. That was why Russia in every possible way prevented the restructuring of the economies of the post-Soviet states with due account of the national needs of each of them.
Especially the president of Russia is worried about Ukraine, where there are many defense enterprises, academic and industrial scientific research institutes of the former USSR. Not the least role is played by the circumstance that Russia sees its historical roots in Kievan Rus. That is why, by virtue of a whole complex of military-political and economic interests of the ruling circles of the Russian Federation, the annexation of Ukraine by Russia has become inevitable.
In Ukraine, since the proclamation of independence, the same processes as in the entire post-Soviet space have been going on. The former party nomenclature and the chiefs of the state apparatus "privatized" the people's property, but they did not have the mind to use it properly. Scilicet these oligarchs, in whose property there occurred the largest enterprises of the former USSR, did everything to integrate Ukraine into an alliance with Russia and other post-Soviet republics, since the interests of business for them are higher than the national interests. At the same time, they have been receiving without a twinge of conscience privileges in supplying energy and raw materials from the Ukrainian state, converting into their profits the state budget funds.
It was not a question of modernization of production, while the oligarchs lived at the expense of the state budget. The state in Ukraine has long ago ceased to be an owner of property and at present exists mainly due to the taxes, so it is not obliged to subsidize private factories and enterprises from its budget. The only thing that the government can do to really help small and medium businesses in Ukraine in the current situation is to stop interfering in their activities if they do not go beyond the law. The Soviet habit of government officials to intervene in all spheres of the society’s activities in order to obtain personal benefits still occupies most of their working time.
As mentioned above, Ukraine inherited from the USSR a republican scale Soviet-style apparatus of state administration. Scilicet it has become an instrument for realizing the powers of authority of the ruling circles of Ukraine. Under Yanukovich, this apparatus was destroyed, and current managers simply do not have the tools to implement their powers of authority. All attempts to revive or transform it according to the European pattern are doomed to failure.
There are two ways to solve the problem. The first is to realize self-government in the country, and the other is to gain colonial statehood from the European Union. The only thing is that the powers that be in Ukraine have neither the mind nor the competent experts for solving these tasks.
On top of that, the Ukrainian government shamelessly lies that it is able to organize worthy resistance in the event of an expansion of aggression from the northern neighbor. At the request of Europe and Russia the authorities disarmed and removed from the front line the military volunteers, who were ready to defend Ukraine at the cost of their own lives.
Putin doesn’t intend to back away from his claims to Ukraine and is ready to blow up his own civilian aircrafts in order to change the attitude of the world public to it and deprive it of the Western support.
I wouldn’t be surprised if in the memoirs of the current president of Ukraine there will be a record that scilicet his willful decision forced the explosive device to work in a Russian plane over the Sinai Peninsula, despite the fact that the timer had to blow off the charge on board two hours later, when the plane would have already flown by over the territory of Ukraine. It is also possible that the will of the Ukrainian president, as it turns out, forced the Turkish pilots to shoot down the Russian military aircraft Su-24 on the border with Syria ...
The Creator keeps Ukraine safe, but not those who usurped power over its people. With them, He will do the same as with the Russian invaders, who encroached on its territorial integrity.
Man proposes, and the Creator disposes, and His ways are inscrutable. He doesn’t care what people think about Him and He doesn’t reckon upon their participation in His Providence. He will do Himself His own work and this gives hope for the salvation of the humankind.
Translated by professor Leonid Bilousov
[Ru]
http://nikpavl2002.dreamwidth.org/56337.html
[Eng]
No matter however you slice it, without the absorption of Ukraine, Russia can’t be reborn as an empire. An unsuccessful attempt to implement the annexation of our country in 2004 forced the Russian authorities to take more careful measures to destroy the Ukrainian statehood in order to make the process irreversible and guarantee Ukraine's membership in the Russian Federation.
The bringing to power of the puppet government headed by president Yanukovich was to ensure the implementation of the plan for Ukraine's "peaceful entry" into the "unified and indivisible" RF no later than 2014.
But Russian president Putin’s plans were not destined to come true. However, there is no merit in that of either the Ukrainian people or the new "revolutionary" power under the leadership of the president-"peacemaker" Poroshenko. Say what you will, but the Russian special services have worked in Ukraine thoroughly, destroying the apparatus of state administration, without which the current power a priori is not able to realize its powers of authority.
As for the "fifth column" of Russia and the branched intelligence network of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) in Ukraine, they have not disappeared anywhere, but just temporarily lost their efficiency and certainly not of their own free will. Something similar happened to the Russian army, which was ready to carry out a full-scale invasion of the territory of Ukraine.
A holy place is never empty [English equivalent: The throne is never vacant], and the number of those wishing to take the laurels of the winners, who stopped the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine, is growing every day. The only thing is that just none of them can predict the development of events even in the near future, but for the professional liars this is also not a problem.
The current Ukrainian government is lying thoroughly and selflessly. If you follow its claims, the reforms in the country are in full swing, and the economy is experiencing an unprecedented rise due to investments from the West, which is looking forward to Ukraine's accession to the European Union and is ready to grant it a visa-free regime, despite the continued occupation of the part of its territory by the Russian troops.
The situation painfully resembles the plot of Andersen's fairy tale "The New Dress of the King" about two cunning people who managed to convince the monarch that they sewed a wonderful dress supposedly becoming invisible exclusively for fools or people who are not in their place.
Similarly, prime minister Yatsenyuk and president Poroshenko tell the whole world the fairy tales about "reforms that only fools do not see." Apparently, in their opinion, all the rest should consider as such the Ukrainian people, the investors and the world community.
Just one small thing is lacking: to find a boy who will inform everyone that there are no reforms in Ukraine and that they are not expected in the near future. And while the one was not found, the Ukrainian government, represented today by a group of mass-entertainers, "powdering" the brains of ordinary people, takes their attention by holding the mass events. It can be the election of anyone anywhere, or the celebration of anniversaries and dates.
The persistence of the Ukrainian president, who tries to convince the people and the entire world community that the Minsk agreements will lead to a peaceful settlement of the conflict with Russia, is surprising. At the same time, no one is asking the question: why is Putin so anxious to recreate in the borders of the former USSR an empire, based on the Russian Federation? The answer is simple. The collapse of the USSR symbolized not so much the fall of the communist regime as the dismemberment of a single state into a number of territories, one of which possessed a real statehood, and all the rest had to create it.
It is worth noting that in the current conditions this is impossible. Among these pseudo-states there was Ukraine, since the proclamation of independence and sovereignty doesn’t at all mean real possession of them. The reunification of the newly emerging republics at the level of economies into a single union was viewed as inevitable, since the infrastructure of the former USSR lost its meaning and significance within a single republic. If Putin succeeded, then, having gathered all the former Soviet republics into a single empire, he would automatically receive, if not all, but still most of the former power of the USSR. And it was not necessary to reinvent the bicycle. That was why Russia in every possible way prevented the restructuring of the economies of the post-Soviet states with due account of the national needs of each of them.
Especially the president of Russia is worried about Ukraine, where there are many defense enterprises, academic and industrial scientific research institutes of the former USSR. Not the least role is played by the circumstance that Russia sees its historical roots in Kievan Rus. That is why, by virtue of a whole complex of military-political and economic interests of the ruling circles of the Russian Federation, the annexation of Ukraine by Russia has become inevitable.
In Ukraine, since the proclamation of independence, the same processes as in the entire post-Soviet space have been going on. The former party nomenclature and the chiefs of the state apparatus "privatized" the people's property, but they did not have the mind to use it properly. Scilicet these oligarchs, in whose property there occurred the largest enterprises of the former USSR, did everything to integrate Ukraine into an alliance with Russia and other post-Soviet republics, since the interests of business for them are higher than the national interests. At the same time, they have been receiving without a twinge of conscience privileges in supplying energy and raw materials from the Ukrainian state, converting into their profits the state budget funds.
It was not a question of modernization of production, while the oligarchs lived at the expense of the state budget. The state in Ukraine has long ago ceased to be an owner of property and at present exists mainly due to the taxes, so it is not obliged to subsidize private factories and enterprises from its budget. The only thing that the government can do to really help small and medium businesses in Ukraine in the current situation is to stop interfering in their activities if they do not go beyond the law. The Soviet habit of government officials to intervene in all spheres of the society’s activities in order to obtain personal benefits still occupies most of their working time.
As mentioned above, Ukraine inherited from the USSR a republican scale Soviet-style apparatus of state administration. Scilicet it has become an instrument for realizing the powers of authority of the ruling circles of Ukraine. Under Yanukovich, this apparatus was destroyed, and current managers simply do not have the tools to implement their powers of authority. All attempts to revive or transform it according to the European pattern are doomed to failure.
There are two ways to solve the problem. The first is to realize self-government in the country, and the other is to gain colonial statehood from the European Union. The only thing is that the powers that be in Ukraine have neither the mind nor the competent experts for solving these tasks.
On top of that, the Ukrainian government shamelessly lies that it is able to organize worthy resistance in the event of an expansion of aggression from the northern neighbor. At the request of Europe and Russia the authorities disarmed and removed from the front line the military volunteers, who were ready to defend Ukraine at the cost of their own lives.
Putin doesn’t intend to back away from his claims to Ukraine and is ready to blow up his own civilian aircrafts in order to change the attitude of the world public to it and deprive it of the Western support.
I wouldn’t be surprised if in the memoirs of the current president of Ukraine there will be a record that scilicet his willful decision forced the explosive device to work in a Russian plane over the Sinai Peninsula, despite the fact that the timer had to blow off the charge on board two hours later, when the plane would have already flown by over the territory of Ukraine. It is also possible that the will of the Ukrainian president, as it turns out, forced the Turkish pilots to shoot down the Russian military aircraft Su-24 on the border with Syria ...
The Creator keeps Ukraine safe, but not those who usurped power over its people. With them, He will do the same as with the Russian invaders, who encroached on its territorial integrity.
Man proposes, and the Creator disposes, and His ways are inscrutable. He doesn’t care what people think about Him and He doesn’t reckon upon their participation in His Providence. He will do Himself His own work and this gives hope for the salvation of the humankind.
Translated by professor Leonid Bilousov