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Colonial Symbols #7 (137) July 2019 Ukrainian priorities, gas war, occupied Interview with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Alla Horska: Monumentalist Donbas, and political prisoners Rada on the future election and possible revenge painter vs totalitarian regime COLONIAL SYMBOLS WWW.UKRAINIANWEEK.COM FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION CONTENTS 3 BRIEFING 26 System cacophony 4 The decree on peace How the branches of power live and On pacifism as a servant of the interact after the presidential election aggressor ECONOMICS POLITICS 28 Defeating ourselves 7 Open letter to Vladimir Putin How Ukraine has played soft with American attorney representing Russia in preparing for a gas clash next the families of those killed in the year disaster of the Malaysian MH17 on the 31 To help Russia keep the ORDiLO? 5th anniversary of the attack What the new government’s initiatives 8 The rhetoric of Normandy to lift the blockade from the occupied Alla Lazareva on the role of Ukrainian Donbas actually mean diplomats in the Normandy format SOCIETY 10 Modi-fied 2.0 34 ORDiLO: The new party line Mridula Ghosh on what way will India What’s behind the flashmob about go after the parliamentary elections “Accept Donbas’s choice”? 14 Gerard Elzinga: “Ukraine is one of the 36 Art of prioritization nations, where we are sharing the most Why it is dangerous to neglect the topic of our information with” of war and what the mission of the Head of Spectrum and C3 Infrastructure media community should be Branch at NATO Headquarters C3 Staff on the results of the 2nd Ukrainian 38 Around Holy Sepulchre Defense Hackathon and prospects of Michael Binyon (London) on Jerusalem cooperation with the Ukrainian security where Christian churches are united for and defense sector dialogue on their status FOCUS NEIGHBORS 16 Empty pedestals 40 Industrial reset What does Ukraine have to offer against How Estonia solves the problems of its the Russian myth of “the glorious victory “Donbas” of Russian military power”? 42 Who will free the Kremlin’s prisoners? 18 Andriy Parubiy: “The current division into How President Zelenskiy’s choice “old” and “new” politicians is the new of staff will affect the cause of political Bolshevism” prisoners The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada HISTORY on the likely scenarios of revenge and 44 How to succeed in a revolution: means of its prevention, as well as the the Lithuanian way results of the government’s activity over How Lithuanians acquired their right the past five years to recognition 22 The well-known path 47 An artist against the machine How popular parties plan to implement Who wanted to get rid of Ukrainian rule of law reforms painter and dissident Alla Horska? 24 Price too high How Zelenskiy’s efforts to keep the CULTURE & ARTS parliament under control may pave 50 The months of rock and jazz the way to the loss of Ukraine’s The Ukrainian Week offers a selection independence of events to visit in July E-mail [email protected] www.ukrainianweek.com Tel. (044) 351-13-00 The Ukrainian Week #7 (137) July 2019 Office address Kyiv, Ukraine, 36A, vul. Bohdana Khmelnytskoho, apt. 3 Founder ECEM Media GmbH. Publisher ECEM Media GmbH Print run 15 000. Free distribution Address Austria, Am Gestade, 1, 1010 Vienna Our partner State registration certificate КВ № 19823-9623ПР 19.03.2013 Chief Editor Dmytro Krapyvenko Editors Max Nestelieiev, Lidia Wolanskyj 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEK | #7 (137) July 2019 5 The decree on peace Yuriy Makarov A trial balloon or a bold demonstration? Somewhat knowing one BRIEFING BRIEFING of the politicians in the viper’s tangle of “life-loving opposition- ists” who raised the twisted NewsOne channel, I’m pretty cer- tain that announcing a telebridge with Moscow willy-nilly was someone’s creative outburst. Knowing others, I can assume that this is part of a long game, where a hybrid response has been prepared for every reaction from Kyiv. If we get away with it, let’s up the ante. If we don’t, we scream about freedom of speech all over Europe and, most importantly, in eastern Ukraine. If the HANNA CHABARAI PHОТО: public gets involved, we say fascists are on the rise. 6 BRIEFING | There’s even a third option: orders from the Kremlin – but tory as a symbol of disgrace, the unjust and violent inter- I’m not prepared to reconstruct their logic. In any case, the vention of capitalist state № 1 in a just people’s liberation initiative was not on our side – but then we’re used to that. struggle. This latest bit of “informational sabotage” forces us to In truth, the American way of making war, with carpet- think about what ideological format the next attacks are bombing, using Agent Orange and napalm, did not gain it likely to take. First of all, “dialog” – moreover over the any friends. What was forgotten, however, was that there head of the government, directly between two peoples who were two Vietnams: the communist North and the free, have been forced by conflict. In fact, every word here can dynamic and civilized, if admittedly a bit corrupt, South. be placed in quotes. Secondly, “peace at any price.” Well, From the north, across the mountains along the famed Ho peace is not just a daydream, but an object of manipulation Chi Minh trail an unceasing line of units of Vietcong gueril- whose history goes back well over 100 years. las began pouring into the South, sabotaging, terrorizing, I grew up with this. Crying “Peace to the world!” “No destroying local administrations, attacking army units, war!,” “Strengthen the world through labor”... Over the and carving up entire villages for cooperating with the of- radio we heard “May the sun always shine!” “Do Russians ficial government. The Vietcong never felt any shortage of want war?” Then, when we bought a television, terrible re- resources, either, because communist China and the Soviet ports on the cursed Americans, who were bombing peace- Union were generously helping them. It was the saboteurs ful Vietnam, and always a bit about Israel’s military. When that the Americans fought as they could. Had they been I was not yet 10 and hadn’t learned to listen to the anec- able to hold the line of defense, South Vietnam might have dotes of the adults around me, I was certain that I lived in become, like South Korea, yet another Asian tiger. Only the most just country in the world, surrounded by warlike now, nearly half a century later, is the country slowly recov- aggressors. And we were in the right. We were for peace! ering from the management of the heirs to Lenin-Stalin- Mao. And the victims of the Red Terror that counted in the millions have largely been forgotten. It’s sad to admit that EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT YOU CAN HAVE PEACE AS A RESULT OF the idols of my youth – the rock musicians, the writers, the CAPITULATION, PEACE BY TOLERATING EVIL, PEACE THROUGH INDIFFERENCE, filmmakers – were also useful idiots... AND PEACE BY CONDONING AN AGGRESSOR. IN UKRAINE TODAY, SLOGANS What I’m trying to say is that peace in and of itself is FOR PEACE ARE A BETRAYAL OF THE STOLEN LANDS AND, MORE neither a goal nor something unambiguous. I remember what a wave of just anger was raised over a comment by IMPORTANTLY, THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ABANDONED TO THEIR FATE Gen. Alexander Haig, Secretary of State in the Reagan Ad- ministration: “There are things that are more important Christianity, the late Antiquities, Islam, the Enlighten- than peace.” He was right! Everybody understands that ment, pacifism – humanity has moved steadily towards an you can have peace as a result of capitulation, peace by understanding that problems are not resolved through war, tolerating evil, peace through indifference, and peace by and that peace is an absolute value. This was the ideological condoning an aggressor. I don’t want to say that St. Augus- nugget that the communists took up as a reliable weapon on tine, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Bertrand Russell, the path to world dominion. The first law of the bolshevik and Albert Schweitzer were all wrong and I’m the only government was a Decree on Peace. The mass of exhausted wise man here. But calling for peace in Ukraine today is a frontline soldiers took this as permission to empty the front betrayal, a stupid betrayal without any hashtag, a betrayal and rush home to rob the rich. The consequences everyone of the stolen lands and, most importantly, of the people knows: the Red Terror, a bloody civil war, the annexation of who have been abandoned to their fate, whether they are independent Ukraine and the restored states of the South- aware of this or not. ern Caucasus, an attempt to invade Poland, rapid milita- The difference is also that the soviet “fight for peace” rization, and the unfolding of World War II... Nor did this was very effective in that many people, both within the get in the way of reviving a hybrid expansion with the help USSR and beyond the Iron Curtain, genuinely believed in of the entirely USSR-controlled movement for peace and it. Naive pensioners, our grandmothers, gave their kopi- disarmament after the war. Moscow found willing helpers, ykas from the bottom of their hearts to the Peace Fund God forbid, and useful idiots such as the French commu- – which was just another sub-unit of the International nist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, holder of both the Nobel Prize Department of the Central Committee – while leftist ac- for chemistry and Stalin’s prize “For strengthening peace tivists, similarly from the bottom of their hearts, blocked among nations.” American bases in Germany.
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