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Alexander Yarmola is a Ukrainian musician, vocalist, lyricist, and the founder and leader of the Cossack-Rock band "Gaidamaki."
THE GAME OF MANIPULATION
January 25, 2014, 10:20 PM
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Here's the strategy: adopt unconstitutional laws that allow them to "eliminate" every Ukrainian who, in solidarity, participates in the protests. Then, based on these "laws," they'll grab hostages – both those captured on Hrushevsky Street or from the AutoMaidan, and just random people visiting Maidan. Afterward, they'll use these hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations with the opposition. They'll say, "The government and president must resign, or we'll release the hostages, or we'll arrest more. Or we'll kill them." These are the typical rules of criminal dealings between gangster gangs, which operate everywhere where society allows the existence of a mafia. And we were walking around wearing rose-colored glasses, dreaming of an ideal legal society... The world tells us to wait for political decisions... The leaders sit down at the negotiating table. They should. But with whom? Either there's no one to negotiate with, or they need to have strong arguments to use! We need to understand: this isn't even like the governments of Pinochet, Stalin, or Hitler. They were fighting for some political views. These people have none. But they already have all the power structures at their disposal. By the way, to the security forces who read blogs: don't you understand who you're working for? The Gestapo and NKVD at least worked for regimes supported by ideologies. What's your ideology? The genocide of the Ukrainian people? In the name of what? Billions in the accounts of those in power? Surely there isn't a single honest person? Surely none of you believe in the possibility of a different, better life in Ukraine? People are coming out to Maidan now not "for Europe," and no one is paying ordinary people at Maidan to do this! It's not "Banderites" or radicals who are setting the tone at Maidan. Those who BELIEVE in the possibility of a decent life in Ukraine have come out. Maidan represents all layers of Ukrainian society. People have come out for a peaceful protest because they don't see a place for themselves in the criminal regime that has already been built. And you have declared everyone "outlaws." Understand, the people of Maidan, for the most part, don't want to go "to Europe" or "to Moscow"; they simply want to live in a civilized country where democratic laws are in effect, and the opportunities for all citizens are more or less equal, where the government, during a crisis, comes out to talk to the people, and if they can't reach an agreement, they voluntarily resign their powers instead of playing games with people.
THE GAME OF MANIPULATION
January 25, 2014, 10:20 PM
Print version Comments 1
Here's the strategy: adopt unconstitutional laws that allow them to "eliminate" every Ukrainian who, in solidarity, participates in the protests. Then, based on these "laws," they'll grab hostages – both those captured on Hrushevsky Street or from the AutoMaidan, and just random people visiting Maidan. Afterward, they'll use these hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations with the opposition. They'll say, "The government and president must resign, or we'll release the hostages, or we'll arrest more. Or we'll kill them." These are the typical rules of criminal dealings between gangster gangs, which operate everywhere where society allows the existence of a mafia. And we were walking around wearing rose-colored glasses, dreaming of an ideal legal society... The world tells us to wait for political decisions... The leaders sit down at the negotiating table. They should. But with whom? Either there's no one to negotiate with, or they need to have strong arguments to use! We need to understand: this isn't even like the governments of Pinochet, Stalin, or Hitler. They were fighting for some political views. These people have none. But they already have all the power structures at their disposal. By the way, to the security forces who read blogs: don't you understand who you're working for? The Gestapo and NKVD at least worked for regimes supported by ideologies. What's your ideology? The genocide of the Ukrainian people? In the name of what? Billions in the accounts of those in power? Surely there isn't a single honest person? Surely none of you believe in the possibility of a different, better life in Ukraine? People are coming out to Maidan now not "for Europe," and no one is paying ordinary people at Maidan to do this! It's not "Banderites" or radicals who are setting the tone at Maidan. Those who BELIEVE in the possibility of a decent life in Ukraine have come out. Maidan represents all layers of Ukrainian society. People have come out for a peaceful protest because they don't see a place for themselves in the criminal regime that has already been built. And you have declared everyone "outlaws." Understand, the people of Maidan, for the most part, don't want to go "to Europe" or "to Moscow"; they simply want to live in a civilized country where democratic laws are in effect, and the opportunities for all citizens are more or less equal, where the government, during a crisis, comes out to talk to the people, and if they can't reach an agreement, they voluntarily resign their powers instead of playing games with people.
Весна 2013.
