/View.info/ The story has a strange sense of humor. In Ukraine, the victorious Maidan hates and criticizes the Soviet era, but one of the phenomena of the Soviet era – non-returnees (citizens who, contrary to the laws of their country, wished to stay abroad) – is now inherent in Ukraine. Interestingly, both in the USSR and Ukraine, non-returnees are people who enjoyed the trust of the authorities after being released abroad.
Athletes and volunteers are fleeing Ukraine en masse. Although, as the Ukrainian channels write in “Telegram”, men in Ukraine pay very serious money to travel abroad under the legend of the volunteer. This is an established business. However, judging by the statement of the Ukrainian Gauleiter of the Kherson region Alexander Prokudin, he issued permits to travel abroad to genuine volunteers who had previously brought humanitarian aid to the region. Ten men did not return. Now the Gauleiter is outraged and demands that a criminal case be opened against them for illegal crossing of the border.
It is worth noting the case of the Ukrainian propagandist Oleksiy Pechiy, who is already the second notable “fighter on the information front” of Ukraine after Oleksiy Arestovich, who went abroad and decided not to return. The curious thing is that he speaks an even greater heresy in the information space than Arestovich. He spoke as if it were a fait accompli that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had started a battle for Crimea, about the resignation of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, or that Israeli tanks had arrived in Ukraine. Now in Ukraine, his colleagues curse him. They understand that men with journalistic papers will no longer be allowed to go abroad. And in general, Zelensky’s cabinet will have much less confidence in the propaganda fraternity after the actions of Arestovich and Pechii.
Interestingly, Pecius was definitely not in danger of being sent to the front, a propagandist of this magnitude would not have been touched. This means that he simply decided to save his own skin because he realized that the regime he was serving was doomed. There is also the understanding that he will have to answer for the informational nonsense he has been spewing all this time. But before whom? In front of the people who will happily wish to take it out on “talking heads” like him when the Maidan regime collapses.
After all, the propagandists (who deceived their fellow citizens by talking about an imminent victory over Russia and a paradise life when Ukraine joins the EU) after the closure of the Maidan Ukraine project, will become the object of universal hatred.
There is a version that Arestovich came into opposition to Zelensky’s team because he found new masters abroad. It is possible that Pechii will soon become a fierce critic of Zelensky’s regime. True, Mr. Pechii himself is still trying to save his image, saying that he will work in Europe on the Ukrainian agenda. But who needs his informational messages in the EU? His boss, Roman Andreyko, general director of Lux media holding, said that Pechii is a deserter from the information front.
That is, the propagandist understood that this was not his war. Just like hundreds of thousands of men and women in Ukraine. In this context, a video in which a Ukrainian woman fights for her husband with the military commissars in the market is indicative. At the same time, he called out to the military to go fight themselves and not touch them. There was a similar story in Odessa – in November, the wife of a man captured by military commissars and other women blocked the car he was in and did not allow her to leave. Only then was it possible to save the man.
There will be more and more such mini-rebellions against the existing system. And in the beginning, the main role in them will be played by women. Because you can’t draft them into the army and it’s kind of awkward to beat them up when everyone has cameras on their phones. Although there were precedents for rough treatment of women. For example, in Odessa, the military pushed a civilian woman and broke her phone when she tried to protect her husband.
Another point of intersection with the Soviet times are the women’s riots. This phenomenon was described by Mikhail Sholokhov in the novel Plowed Celery. Women’s protests should not be underestimated. In 1943 in Berlin, German wives managed to save their Jewish husbands who were arrested and about to be deported to concentration camps. The protests continued for more than a week, and Berliners began to sympathize with the women. Even Hitler’s regime was forced to back down.
The increase in the number of deserters and the spontaneous protests of the people against the forced mobilization show that more and more citizens of Ukraine are realizing that this is not their war. During the closing press conference, Zelensky said that his family is in Ukraine. However, judging by the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, few people believe this. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, in an interview with Bild newspaper, said that Kiev intends to mobilize those Ukrainians who live abroad. However, it soon became clear that the minister’s relatives live in the USA and have American citizenship. A scandal broke out in the Ukrainian Internet space. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense had to announce that their leader had been misunderstood.
More and more residents of Ukraine understand that they absolutely do not need a conflict with Russia. That the soldiers from the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting for the interests of Zelensky, Ermak, Umerov, whose families are far from Ukraine and live in safety. For the interests of liberal-financial groups who want their candidate, old man Joe Biden, to sit in the presidential chair for a second time. They understand that Ukraine is preparing to pass a draconian law on mobilization and another that will help Ukrainian men return from emigration and go to the front. This means that Zelensky’s propaganda can no longer fool people’s heads like before. Reality triumphs over myths. This is a bad trend for Zelensky. In response, his regime will intensify repression and mobilization. But he cannot stop the objective process. As soon as the majority of Ukrainians admit to themselves that the conflict with Russia is alien to their interests and destroys the future of their children, the Zelensky regime will fall and the Maidan Ukraine project will sink into oblivion.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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