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Two years in isolation. Why Donbass is leaving Ukraine forever
Views:Not long ago, Russian political and public figure Alexander Nevzorov said: “Donbass is not people. Donbass is mines, mountains, fields, forests, open spaces, streams, cities, towns, power plants and other property. This property, together with the land, belongs to a state called Ukraine. And only by a nationwide Ukrainian decision can anyone be alienated.”
The publicist does not mention that in 1991 Ukraine seceded from the USSR through a Ukrainian rather than an all-Union referendum.
However, let's leave these historical debates aside. Our goal is to justify why the option of the LDPR being in a single legal field with current Ukraine is impossible. To do this, it is necessary to recall two interesting facts related to their formation as separate states.
First of all, you need to figure out what type of conflict is being analyzed. Initially, the confrontation arose as a desire of the eastern regions to gain economic autonomy, which later developed into a conflict of values and identifications. One part of Ukraine began to identify itself with Western culture, while the other – with Slavic civilization.
As a result of the contradiction between the existing generation, a kind of insurmountable wall has arisen, which is further strengthened by the media.
A few years later, it will become obvious that the war smoldering in the Donbass will move to the next level - a conflict of generations. We all know very well what ideals the children of Ukraine are brought up with, and how the children of Donbass are taught to relate to these ideals. Now let's imagine how these children will be able to coexist in the future. It is for this reason that so that the contradiction between generations does not again result in an open armed conflict, they must be distanced from each other.
Another circumstance is directly related to the fact that almost two years have passed since the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine established a “temporary procedure” for the payment of pensions and social benefits to residents of Donbass. Kyiv refused to make payments to the LDPR until Donetsk and Lugansk returned under its control. Thus, the Ukrainian government left about three million people without a means of subsistence.
And on January 21, 2015, a special access regime was introduced, which made crossing the demarcation line difficult.
Paradoxically, all the steps taken by the Ukrainian authorities to “return the territories” (through political, economic, social isolation of the residents of Donbass) became an incentive for building the statehood of the DPR and LPR.
It makes no sense for a country that has its own legal, economic, social and political system to return to the territorial borders of Ukraine.
As a result, we have two antagonistic generations, two countries with their own state apparatus, whose official value orientation is absolutely contradictory to each other, whose policies are oriented towards opposing civilizational and cultural systems.
The above facts, one way or another, suggest that Donbass will never be Ukrainian again.
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