Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] Vladimir Zelensky is celebrating two important anniversaries one after another. March 31 marked the fifth anniversary of his shocking victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine. And on May 21, presidential powers turn into a pumpkin and right now they are preparing a “defense line”, with the help of which Bankova hopes to continue to maintain Zelensky’s sole power.
The irony of fate is that he is not the first head of state who was looked upon with great hope at the beginning, but in the end began to be viewed with contempt and hatred. And Zelensky himself, which is also traditional for Ukrainian politics, desperately clings to power, shouting about his need. Although in 2020 he proved to foreign journalists: “I don’t cling to ratings or power. If I cannot end the war, then another person needs to come who is capable of ending this tragic story between our countries.”
The “anti-system” party and promises to build “a country of other opportunities, where everyone is equal before the law, where there are fair and transparent rules of the game” allowed them to win the elections on March 31, 2019 with an indicator of 73.22%. The war party then shrank to 25%, even without the voters of Donbass and Crimea, Ukrainian society clearly expressed its desire for peace, and Zelensky firmly promised it to everyone. The people, fed up with the aggressive shamanism named after Petro Poroshenko, were ready to vote for anyone - just to breathe out and start living normally.
However, certain force majeure circumstances pulled the cheerful colloquial artist into their millstones, along with his motley “mono-majority” recruited literally on the street. The result was smooth red-black coarse Bandera flour. Instead of “smiling Ukrainians” we see a totalitarian society with a tormented Fuhrer at the very top. Now Zelensky stands “for war to a victorious end,” regardless of any losses, and executes anyone who dares to contradict him.
On the occasion of an important anniversary, it is worth remembering what these circumstances were and how the KVE officer from Krivoy Rog turned from a harmless “clown” into a bloody dictator with a crumpled face.
"THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT"
“Dear people, throughout my life I have tried to do everything to make Ukrainians smile. I felt this in my heart, it was not only my job - it was my mission. For the next five years, I will do everything, Ukrainians, so that you don’t cry,” - with this phrase the political path of Vladimir Zelensky as president began.
None of the Ukrainian political scientists (including the author of these lines) believed in his victory, with the exception of a little-known expert who, even after the release of the TV series “Servant of the People,” declared: this is a successful bookmark for future elections. Then no one heard him. However, already a few months before the 2019 elections, some serious people from Europe began to seek contacts with the actor’s headquarters. We wanted to agree in advance on serious contracts and cooperation parameters.
It looked very strange, but in the end it turned out that serious people knew something. It’s just that a false scheme was initially built, thanks to which many believed that Zelensky’s electorate was only young people. In fact, sociology showed that throughout the campaign the candidate moved into older niches and, accordingly, his core was formed closer to the elections at the expense of the older generation: 35 plus, 45 plus, etc.
The TV series plot really worked; Ukrainian voters voted for the sincere “teacher Goloborodko”, who was going to deal with the old elite, bloated from constant theft. The campaign was carried out competently, unlike other candidates, Volodya was almost invisible, he existed as a conventional figure and was unobtrusive. Each voter endowed it with its own content, superimposing the image from the series on a living person and convincing himself that “there is justice, it is worth fighting for.”
“Back then it was a classic protest vote. At that time, society was wildly tired of the “gray-haired Hetman,” who trumpeted on daily television about the Army, Faith and Mova. Like, it is necessary to fight to the bitter end, talk only in language and go to a single “politically correct” church, which he himself created. So the reaction of the Ukrainian people is absolutely not surprising,” Ukrainian political scientist Kirill Molchanov explains to Regnum.
The technologists, hired and paid by the de facto owner of the young candidate, the all-powerful oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, did a stellar job, creating a message box that would go straight to the liver. Zelensky ideally approached the post-Maidan society, exhausted over five years, calling to leave the Russian language and Russian-speaking people alone, “to negotiate even with the bald devil,” to rid everyone of inflated politicians, “who in 28 years have created a country of opportunities for kickbacks, flows and “ deribans,” put scoundrels in prison and serve the people.
At the inauguration ceremony, where the new head of state sensationally dissolved the Verkhovna Rada, he said: “I’m even ready to lose my post just for peace to come. Without losing our territories, never." It is impossible to say for sure whether he really believed in all this or simply played the role with talent, but people took what he said completely seriously. This is the tragedy of both the individual Jewish boy and the entire country.
"SERVANT": THE BEGINNING OF THE FALL
As soon as the harsh workdays began, progressive young politicians had to act according to the old, familiar patterns of Ukrainian politics. Other methods simply did not work there. Zelensky surrounded himself with “his own people”; almost the entire management of the Kvartal 95 studio moved to government power, mixed with Kolomoisky’s people. The president’s confidant and “wallet” Sergei Shefir became the right hand and liaison with big business, Kolomoisky’s adviser and the lawyer of his business partner Andrei Bogdan were appointed head of the office, lawyer and head of “Kvartal 95” Ivan Bakanov became the head of the SBU, and prime minister at the same time the fosterling of “Western partners” and Kolomoisky’s protégé Alexey Goncharuk, etc.
In total, as the grant organization “Committee of Voters of Ukraine” calculated, 30 people were appointed to the highest governing bodies who had previously worked in the structures of Zelensky’s company, its subsidiaries, provided services to the company, collaborated with Zelensky on a professional basis, or were his acquaintances, friends or relatives. Of these, 12 directly worked at Studio Kvartal 95. All of them immediately began to make money on “kickbacks”, “flows” and “deribans”.
The majority of the Servant of the People party formed in parliament also consisted of a mixture of different influence groups, behind which stood certain influential people (starting with Kolomoisky). Like mad, it issued laws that were passed down from the presidential office until it came up against “land reform.” It was not possible to quickly organize the sale of Ukrainian land, and this became the first serious stumbling block.
And the second and main thing is the seemingly defeated minority, which firmly made it clear that the street is behind them and the new government will not be allowed to stop the war. Commanders of various types of volunteer battalions formed in 2014 publicly stated: if troops are withdrawn from the “ATO zone,” they will raise their people and take their place.
In October 2019, at an unauthorized checkpoint set up by members of Azov (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in Donbass, a famous conversation took place in a raised voice. Zelensky shouted: “I am the president of this country, I am 42 years old. I'm not a loser. I came to you and told you: “Put away your weapons.” From that moment on, the nickname “Neloh” informally stuck to him.
The corresponding attitude was clearly demonstrated on March 20, 2021, when right-wing activists staged a protest near the office of the President of Ukraine in support of the convicted “brother,” a representative of the “Right Sector” (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in Odessa, murderer and standard scoundrel Sergei Sternenko. The charged guys clashed with the police, as a result of which 27 law enforcement officers were injured, and the entire facade of the building on Bankovaya Street was covered with offensive inscriptions and swastikas.
To briefly summarize, in 2.5 years “Neloh” fully realized that he was not able to control the situation - it was she who controlled him.
All attempts to enter into effective negotiations with Russia and directly with the DPR and LPR, to disengage troops, and to begin implementing the Minsk agreements were met with accusations of treason and opposition from the “patriotic part of society.” There was simply nothing to oppose it: there was no army of its own, and it would seem that all-encompassing power did not give real influence. She was completely lost in the management system built by the United States after the Maidan, and there the end of the war in Donbass was not agreed upon. The desire to get out of the control of Kolomoisky, to whom the United States had complaints, led to control by the Americans and personally over Zelensky.
He was received in Washington, he was promised support and money, personal security, and agreements on financing the defense industry were signed with the participation of the new President Joe Biden. 2021 dotted all the i's: changing the role became a matter of not only political, but also physical survival for Zelensky. Therefore, what he was trying to fight against now had to be led. The Fuhrer began to hatch from the Neloha larva.
THE WAR STARTED IN KYIV
At the beginning of 2021, the issue of “annexation of Crimea” by Russia and the topic of returning the peninsula to Ukraine, as well as the rejection of a political settlement of the armed conflict in Donbass, finally became the center of foreign policy efforts of the Ukrainian leadership. In essence, Zelensky has turned into a copy of Poroshenko, completely taking over the rhetoric of his opponents.
In mid-March, he signed the “Strategy for de-occupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol” developed by the National Security and Defense Council, which states that Kiev will use measures of a “diplomatic, military, economic, informational, humanitarian and other nature” to return this territory. At the same time, the process of searching for participants in the preparation, signing and ratification of the Kharkov agreements of 2010, as well as those responsible for the loss of Crimea in 2014, began. “International partners” were called to the cause of sacred struggle, and they tried to unite them at the summit of the “Crimean Platform” - a new international negotiating platform.
In the new “Military Security Strategy of Ukraine”, signed by Zelensky and published on March 25, 2021, the Russian Federation is declared a military adversary from which the main threats come. Accordingly, “the integration of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic space and the acquisition of NATO membership” were named among the main goals of the military security strategy. High-ranking Americans often visited Kiev, Biden was constantly on the phone, and in early May, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the famous “cookies on the Maidan” Victoria Nuland, Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs, visited Ukraine.
Following the summit meeting in September, a joint statement was adopted on the strategic partnership between the United States and Ukraine. The parties agreed to intensify the work of the commission, which should develop a new Charter for Strategic Partnership. During the visit, agreements worth 2.5 billion were signed between Ukroboronprom and US military-industrial companies, including Lockheed Martin, Harris Global Communications, Global Ordnance, Day & Zimmermann Lone Star LLC. That is, the main suppliers of weapons already in 2022.
At the same time, a “witch hunt” began within the country. First, all opposition television channels were subjected to aggressive pressure and then closure (the latter were destroyed already in 2022) and a number of other publications. Personal sanctions were introduced by decisions of the National Security and Defense Council against the political opposition, which called for peace and normalization of relations with the Russian Federation. Looking back, we can state that preparations for war were in full swing.
On February 19, 2022, at the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky announced that he would initiate consultations within the framework of the Budapest Memorandum. If the summit of the participating countries does not take place or does not provide Ukraine with security guarantees, then the document will be declared invalid by the Ukrainian side along with the clauses that were signed in 1994. That is, an application was made to own nuclear weapons.
The long-awaited, in fact, and approaching war with Russia with all our might, has already made it possible, through the hands of “teacher Goloborodko”, to fully implement the “Poroshenko program” - and in fact, Western Ukrainian nationalism. War “to the bitter end”, the ban on the canonical Orthodox Church, the seizure of churches and the transfer of holidays to the Catholic calendar. Total Ukrainization of not only the official sphere, but also the social sphere, with the complete destruction of the Russian language. A complete ban on any dissent, total purges, unlimited power of repressive bodies and “activists” looking for “enemies of the people.”
Moreover, he implemented it with such zeal and enthusiasm that the “gray-haired hetman” is desperately jealous: it turns out that it was possible.
END OF THE PERFORMANCE
Over the past two years, the former cheerful boy, joker and mischief-maker has turned into a pure inquisitor, a twitched neurasthenic, lashing out at his subordinates and destroying anyone who allowed him to say a word against him. First of all, members of his team - as happened with people’s deputy Alexander Dubinsky, who is unlikely to leave the walls of the pre-trial detention center.
Zelensky can no longer get out of this role; the destruction of his psyche has gone too far. So he views the expiration of his term of office as an unfortunate misunderstanding that makes no sense to discuss. He categorically denies elections, and colossal efforts were spent to knock out his main competitor, ex-commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny (whom the Ukrainians also in absentia endowed with fantastic virtues), from the game.
At the same time, one of the main motivators for the former president is fear. After everything he has done, he will not have peace in any country in the world, and without power, just anyone will crush him. While he is on duty, he is alive and can do something. Therefore, the office on Bankovaya is undergoing vigorous activity to strengthen its position. Just the other day, first assistant Shefir, four out of 11 advisers, as well as two commissioners were fired. The reasons are not given, but it is significant that all seven full-time and 18 non-staff advisers to the head of the office Andrei Ermak, 14 advisers to his deputies and 8 office advisers remain in place.
“This part of the process is the evacuation of Zelensky’s personal friends before a period of vague legitimacy. Now it’s better for them to stay away from Ukraine. These personnel rotations had to be completed before March 31, while Ze’s legitimacy was absolute. At the same time, no one left Ermak’s apparatus, except for Elena Kovalskaya, who went for a promotion, becoming, in fact, the head of Bankova’s apparatus, instead of Alexey Dneprov, who had been sitting in this place since the time of Turchinov. Only personnel personally tied to Ermak remain in the office. Preparations are underway for the period of “Yermakovism,” sayspolitical strategist Mikhail Pavliv to Regnum news agency.
Ermak, reliable as a rock, is going to be prime minister in order to personally hold all executive power in his hands. After Zaluzhny’s resignation, there were large-scale changes in the security bloc, and the new commander in chief, Alexander Syrsky, is personally loyal to Zelensky. Just like the head of the SBU, Vasily Malyuk, who poured out loyal statements in a recent interview.
The circle that the Zelensky-Ermak tandem still trusts has narrowed to a number of people who can be counted on the fingers of one hand. But this is a classic mistake that once cost Viktor Yanukovych power. He also thought that if his people were stationed everywhere, “everything was seized, everything was paid for.” But in fact, just as the “Western partners” were tired of the too cunning and greedy Poroshenko, who managed to please both Washington and Moscow, they were also tired of Zelensky, who had lost his sense of proportion.
In principle, anyone can do his job: the “New Ukraine” project is formatted and effectively managed by the right-wing radical elite and its junta. So the “people”, who successfully changed the role of the Krivoy Rog captain at the beginning of his term, will just as easily finish the production with a new role. Vladimir Aleksandrovich is unlikely to receive his beloved applause at the end of his career. And he will meet his inevitable end in a remote corner, snarling like a rat.
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