Vladimir Herasymchuk

Worn out by nightmarish optical illusions chasing him, Homo Sapiens, continued to wonder in confusion amidst chaotic whirlwinds of darkness. Night ghosts pulled more intensely barely awakening Earth into the World of non-existence. And the Man recalled – in the beginning there was word. However, it turned out to be a lie, and the creatures who spoke it were hypocritical Judas’… Darkness born by night covered like a thick blanket morning, which was being born in pain. The Earth by this time was invisible and empty. And there was darkness over the abyss. The Demon of night tirelessly flew over the waters and continents, chasing into its net cheated Human flock, which was lost in the maze of fate. Only a few recognized that this was not good. This is how we can roughly paraphrase Biblical myth about creation of the world, while at the same time evaluating modern day political and social-economic situation in Ukraine…

Le us escape the captivity of night ghosts and have a look at the real life. What exactly is today’s state of Ukraine? Does it exist? Similarly to the Biblical newly created world today’s society of Ukraine can be also described as chaotic. One can speak of the existence of any kind of active state apparatus in the republic only in a humorous, if not tragic, tone. Common folk simply continue their daily existence. The ones in power are guided by laws created by themselves. The so-called "guarantor of the Constitution" (the President) is the first one to break the republic’s main law. His very path towards his "throne" is questionable in itself. Particularly, when as a result of the presidential elections in 2004 the "wrong guy" came to power, a third round of voting was announced, which is not foreseen by the Constitution. And "the right guy" got elected. However, the seats of the deputies of Verhovna Rada (the Supreme Council) ere filled with "the wrong guys" too. So, the "guarantor" is trying to dismiss them now, although no one doubts the democratic nature of the parliamentary elections.

It is understandable that the anti-constitutional actions of the "guarantor of the Constitution" met with strong resistance in the society. This can be illustrated by Victor Yushchenko’s first, on April 2, giving an order to dismiss the Verhovna Rada, later canceling his own decision, followed by issuing a new identical order on April 26, which this time again turned out to be invalid. Only in May Yushchenko and Yanukovich agreed upon holding early parliamentary elections in September. Will they really take place?

The anti-constitutional character of the President’s actions can also be seen in his dealing with the Judiciary organs. For instance, judges and prosecutors at the state level were removed from their positions and appointed depending on their opinion about constitutionality of the President’s orders. In this way, Chief Prosecutor of Ukraine Svatoslav Piskoun was dismissed and appointed again several times. The newspaper Communist comments about this: "It is obvious that when Victor Yushchenko hears the word "Constitution" he develops a political allergy. With every attempt to heal it, the President only sinks deeper and deeper into the quagmire of lawlessness and political tyranny" (Sergey Linetski, Vitaly Dziuba).

The term "orange revolution" also sounds questionable. During its organizing misled youth from various cities was brought to the city square in Kiev. The main purpose of these youth was to make money on this event. When we asked some of these" "revolutionaries," members of the so-called legions of "People’s Self-defence", who are they protecting themselves from we did not received a clear response. Has there ever been a revolution where people go to barricades in exchange for a paycheque? Doubtful. Secondly, when and where did the uprising people come to the squares and left them following the orders from above? This is, however, typical for "orange revolutions". We are talking here not about revolution, but about struggle of the oligarchs for material and natural resources of the country. This also explains somewhat timid position of Yanukovich. Many times he made deals with the "leaders" of pro-American orientation, even though he was largely supported by the society.

There is one more, dangerous this time, peculiarity of the political state of the Ukrainian society. I mean its gradual transition from a ruled from overseas chaos to fascism. This "orange revolution" chaos reminds us very much of the German avalanche of the worked-up streets of the 1930s. When observing the events in the city squares and realizing the deadly danger to humanity coming from neo-fascism, one wants to shout at the top of his lungs, as did a great Czech patriot Julius Fucik: "Oh, people! I loved you! Be vigilant!" Robespierre called upon labourers: "People, remember, if justice does not mean love of equality and the motherland, then freedom is just an empty sound. As long as the clique of swindlers rules, the defenders of freedom will be nothing but outlaws!"