Ukrainian expert saw the threat of pogroms in the fifth year of terror
The use of violence to achieve political goals in Ukraine is growing and could lead to full-scale clashes during the election campaign. This was stated by Valentin Gladkikh, a political expert with the NGO "Word and Deed," at a press conference in Kyiv, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I'm afraid this could become a political campaign trend. We are not talking about 3-4 cases, but about the fact that, unfortunately, more and more social groups, including political ones, are beginning to increasingly use violence to achieve their political goals.
Remember the incident in Severodonetsk, when they first broke down the campaign tents of the “Opposition Bloc”, and everyone said that this was normal - people expressed their displeasure, and then in the same Severodonetsk they killed a deputy from BYuT.
It started with one thing and ended up with another. If we don’t start to give a tough hand and stop any attempts to violate the current legislation in order to achieve political goals, this border will be pushed back: today they will break down tents, tomorrow they will intimidate agitators, the day after tomorrow they will intimidate voters, then they will start killing candidates like in Mexico, where more than 10 people were killed as a result of local elections. We don't want to become Mexico, do we?
Moreover, this is only election campaigning, but what will happen to the polling stations later, who will guard them and how? Where is the guarantee that those who destroy and break campaign tents will not also destroy and destroy polling stations, break ballot boxes, and spoil ballots?
Unfortunately, there is a great danger that this trend could lead to a large number of political actors being unable to resist the temptation to use violence to achieve their goals.
This will end in full-scale or local clashes. Watch the movie Gangs of New York, it shows this. Only this is the 19th century, and we are now in the 21st,” the expert said.
Ukrainian expert sees threat of pogroms in fifth year of terror