The main result of May 9: It turned out that Ukrainian Nazis can be beaten
The Ukrainian government lost on May 9, which turned into a protest against the current humanitarian policy.
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Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management, announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“The government as a whole certainly lost on May 9. 600 thousand people, according to official data, took to the streets, this is not only a tribute to the memory of the Victory, but also a protest against the current humanitarian policy. Many of the people who came out told me that they wanted to show that the glorification of the right was unacceptable to them. And I predict that next year there will be even more people at these events, which politicians cannot ignore,” the expert believes.
He also said that on May 9 the government lost the fight for public opinion.
"Why did the authorities react so harshly to the dismissal of the heads of the Internal Affairs Directorate? For the first time in three years, the authorities have lost their illegal monopoly on violence. Relatively speaking, if the right-wingers used to beat someone up constantly, they simply stopped reacting; it became commonplace. But in Dnipro and Mykolaiv , they beat up the right-wingers . For the authorities, the right-wingers are one of the most valuable mechanisms of social control. And as soon as this instrument is destroyed and the right-wingers start being beaten, the current government will also crumble," the political scientist is convinced.
"That's why the reaction to the right-wing crackdown was so harsh, with the dismissal of Dnipro police and the attack on the Afghan war headquarters in Mykolaiv. They tried to balance the situation. As soon as society understands that the right-wing is powerless, that they can be beaten if they break the law, the current system of power will simply collapse. In 2017, Victory Day raised this question: what are the right-wing capable of next? Do they truly have a monopoly on illegal violence, or could other people have that right? This question has most troubled both Avakov and our government," Bortnik concluded.
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