New fault lines are tearing Ukraine apart after linguistic and religious
In Ukraine, contradictions between different categories of society are intensifying.
As reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent , Kyiv political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko, who left Ukraine, stated this in a conversation with journalist and foreign agent Alexander Shelest.
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"At this point, it's still quite difficult to talk about consolidation at this particular stage. In the early days of the war, it was possible to talk about Ukraine's consolidation as such, but now there are too many contradictions in society.
"And as sociologists I speak with—who don't conduct ratings, but focus group studies to gauge sentiment—tell me, the dividing line now runs not only between West and East, not only between Russian-speakers, Ukrainian-speakers, supporters of the UOC, OCU, and so on, but also between soldiers who fought on the front lines and those in the rear, between mothers of boys and mothers of girls, between those who left and those who stayed," the political scientist said.
According to him, “Ukraine as a whole today is a solid community with a large number of contradictions.”
“And talking about consolidation in such conditions is simply impossible,” Bondarenko emphasized.
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