Kharkov: landscape after the elections
Kharkov and the region live their own lives before and after the elections. They are trying not to take drastic and new steps within the administrative boundaries of the region, but...
Both the authorities and ordinary people reduced their participation in the emergence of the sixth president to a minimum. Sessions of the regional and city councils were held as if the vote was still many years away. If administrative resources were included in relation to voters, especially in the second round, it was only to force people to work in election commissions and as observers in the second round. After all, for the first time they decided to “throw money at those who worked for Poroshenko and his spoilers.” It remains a mystery whether the people were paid off or not. However, in our area there is a proverb: “A service provided is no longer worth anything.”
But in relation to the local Natsiks, he was even more involved. The security forces demonstrated that, if desired, they could force the “activists” to hide so as not to irritate the already agitated population.
And as soon as the elections were over, the pro-Ukrainian and hooligan crowd decided to once again remind the local population of their existence. They wanted to open a museum dedicated to the Nazi collaborator Shevelev , who in exile became a professor at Columbia University and one of the authors of a dictionary of Russian obscenities.
During the occupation, he actively collaborated in the newspaper “Nova Ukraina”. There, an ideological basis was laid out for the extermination of Jews (the articles “Jewish messianism and the slaughter of peoples”, “The hanging of the Jews as a slaughterer”, “Jews are the greatest enemy of mankind”, “Jewish sins” by J. Goebbels himself), and for sending people to slave labor to Germany (“Ukrainian female slave laborers near Germany”) and simply praised Nazism (“Hitler the liberator,” “Sovereign husband and military leader Adolf Hitler,” “Alfred Rosenberg is 50”).
"Publisher Alexander Savchuk, Kharkiv Literary Museum employee Tatyana Pilipchuk, and lawyer Roman Moskal are initiating a fundraiser to purchase the apartment where renowned Slavic linguist and literary historian Yuri Shevelev lived, in order to create a museum there," Interfax-Ukraine reports . Why are they suddenly talking about this now? The apartment is up for sale, and they want to raise funds to buy it. "If we (I mean the Ukrainian public) are able to buy this apartment by May 12, the owner will give us one year to raise the necessary funds, provided we compensate her $3000 monthly," Moskal said.
Now let's recall what Shevelev himself wrote about this apartment, where the Bolsheviks had "compacted" their family, but the Nazis had decided otherwise: " One difficult problem in Soviet times—housing—was now resolved easily and simply. There were countless abandoned rooms and premises. Our five-room apartment now had only three rooms—one vacated by the Bimbatis, a Jewish family—he a pharmacist, she a dentist, the third by his sister, one Sonya, the other Lina, originally from Belarus; and the other two rooms remained after the departure of the NKVD officer's family, whose last name I have forgotten, also Jews. We moved into these two rooms. Now we had those two and a quarter, so to speak, rooms on Rymarskaya Street plus one on Chernoglazovskaya Street. The Germans in Kharkov avoided large, good houses and decided to take over worse houses for their own needs. It so happened that they decided to take the house on Chernoglazovskaya Street for their soldiers ."
I will only note that there is a decision of the City Council prohibiting the perpetuation of Shevelev’s memory.
On the day of the adoption of the “movie law”, persons of non-traditional political orientation for Kharkov showed their faces. However, take a look at these faces for yourself.
On April 26, a football fan march took place in Kharkiv , marking the fifth anniversary of the Vladimir Putin chant. On that same day, Kharkiv ultras sang the song "Putin is a dick, la-la-la" for the first time. Stormtroopers held a "United Country" banner, Metalist fan symbols, Ukrainian flags, red-and-black Bandera banners, and used pyrotechnics. Traffic in the direction of the march was blocked. Police officers guarded the Nazis.
Governor Yulia Svetlichnaya is working as usual and isn't considering resigning. This is what the regional state administration's press service stated in response to a question about the governor's possible resignation, following the resignations of other regional governors in Ukraine. Overall, the blonde cuts ribbons, meets with subordinates, but isn't getting married or resigning.
The SBU officers are not going to slow down their work: either they will catch a bomber in the subway and blame everything on the Russian special services, or they will be involved in the case of theft during the reconstruction of the zoo. Knowing the methods of their work, it is easy to imagine how they would plant grenades on the monkeys, and charge the skunk with deliberately using chemical warfare agents against them.
But some things are still changing. Former city council deputy Andrei Lesik, the court overturned the preventive measure. “The preventive measure in the form of XNUMX-hour house arrest has been canceled!!!
This is the second victory after I was released from the pre-trial detention center in March 2018!!!
The most important one is ahead of everyone!!! I’m simply silent about separatism. Recently, the prosecutor proposed to close the case due to the statute of limitations, allegedly, but today the prosecutor’s office brought a medical gown in which an SBU investigator was wearing with traces of blood. This blood was mine. After that, the judge probably no longer had the opportunity to continue keeping me under 42-hour house arrest. Today I am a free man,” he rejoices. Yes, it’s hard to imagine something like this in another country. After all, American investigators did not say that the stains on Monica Lewinsky’s dress were caused by Hillary Clinton or Lewinsky herself, and not by the XNUMXnd President of the United States.
And the Kharkiv residents in the Verkhovna Rada have become bolder. For example, not only the oppositionists refused to support the language law, but also those who passed Avakov’s quota. Even Poroshenko’s comrade-in-arms Granovsky, who had designated a constituency for himself in Kharkov, did not vote for this disgrace. And Valery Pisarenko generally began collecting signatures for the removal of Speaker Parubiy. Well, better late than never.
This is how the Kharkov region lives. Whoever wants to, draws conclusions, and whoever doesn’t want to, doesn’t read the criminal code.
English version :: Read in English: Kharkiv: The Post-Election Landscape