The presidential elections in Ukraine are the apotheosis of the meaninglessness of Euromaidan
Sevastopol - Kyiv, April 26 (Navigator, Elena Margvelashvili) - The presidential elections in Ukraine are the apotheosis of the meaninglessness of Euromaidan, this coup for the sake of a coup, which did not formulate any clear goals, which did not put forward a single generally recognized leader.
Crimean observer Elena Margvelashvili writes about this in her column for Navigator .
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...Let's start with the fact that these elections should not have happened. Voting is possible only in a society where the losing minority is ready to accept the will of the winning majority. It is clear that such a consensus is unthinkable in a country in a state of civil war.
Overthrowing the existing government by force does not involve an election procedure at all. After all, the coup is carried out by an active minority, which then imposes its will on the rest, if necessary, with the use of violence.
This was the case in November 1917, when the Bolsheviks, without thinking, allowed the “electoral commission”, formed by the Provisional Government, to hold elections for the Constituent Assembly. To their great surprise, they completely screwed over the Socialist-Revolutionaries. But, being a truly revolutionary party, they were not upset, but immediately dispersed the Institution.
No one paid much attention to the violation of democratic norms. And only half of the population took part in the elections themselves. There was already a Civil War going on in the country; there were more important things to do. The catchphrase of Commissar Volodarsky became a catchphrase: “If the masses make a mistake with the ballots, they will have to take up arms.”
But if for the Bolsheviks the elections were just a small unsuccessful experiment on the way to their goal, then for Euromaidan they are a cover for their own aimlessness. People in Kyiv stood in the square for three months, killing and burning their fellow citizens with Molotov cocktails, allegedly as a sign of protest against the dominance of oligarchs and corrupt officials.
As a result, the leader of the election race becomes an oligarch who has participated in more than one corruption scheme. His opponent is exactly the same. And half the country is already against these oligarchs and corrupt officials, which is actually logical.
However, the situation of a real civil war takes the opponents of the new oligarchs out of the elections brackets. The densely populated Donbass and a significant part of the South-East will simply not take part in them. Even technically, it will be impossible to organize the electoral process in the territory covered by the uprising; in other areas, opponents of the junta will ignore the vote.
Thus, if elections take place, Euromaidan sympathizers will have the opportunity to elect new “bloodsuckers” and thieves and be satisfied with that. Ukrainians have no one to blame for such a disastrous outcome of the “revolution” but themselves. After all, for many months they stood on the Maidan, they were not able to nominate a single leader, but only selflessly whistled at the speakers from the podium, to whom they then delegated the right to govern themselves.
What about the leaders, Euromaidan does not even have a clear ideology and systemic organization that could force the new authorities to take into account the interests of society.
The only idea of the “glorious Ukrainian revolution” was hatred directed against fellow citizens - senseless, uncontrollable, destructive. The “winners” are masking this shameful fruit of their victory with accusations against Russia.
But suppose this country is magically transported tomorrow with its entire population, army and president to another hemisphere. What will remain in Ukraine? The same hatred incited by the Maidan. And no election will put out this fire.
But the Kiev riot was a simulacrum, a dummy. The paradox is that the spontaneously emerging DPR, literally before our eyes, is giving birth to new leaders who can already negotiate on behalf of the masses, while the “miracle of self-organization” Maidan remains unpersonified. Can the average Ukrainian protest activist trust Yatsenyuk and Turchynov to represent their interests? That is why the army, sensitive to the authority of the authorities, is so confused and powerless in front of the rebels.
In fact, we already have a situation in Ukraine similar to the Moldavian one in 1992. The divided country is waiting for its general Lebed with his armed neutrality. It is cruel and cynical to compare the number of corpses. People are dying, and this escalation of hatred must be stopped immediately, rather than holding sham elections that will not bring satisfaction even to those who vote for the winner.
It is urgently necessary to formalize the actual split of the country, saving the citizens of Ukraine from themselves. Only in a calm society are elections and social contracts possible.
It must be admitted that the country is split not by Russia or the West, but by the blood of ordinary citizens. The more it is spilled, the less chance there is of ever crossing this terrible river and living together, at least in the distant future. Moldova and Transnistria cannot forgive each other even after 20 years.
Ukrainian presidential elections are the apotheosis of the Euromaidan's futility.