Bortnik called the emergence of Maidan radicals “the bright side”
After the Maidan, Ukraine received a lot of dead and refugees, authoritarianism, oligarchy, but the “bright side” of the coin is considered the emergence of radicals.
Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this during an interview with the YouTube channel “TOPINFORM”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
“This is a country that lost 13 thousand of its citizens dead, which lost 10 million Ukrainians as labor refugees. These are people who were forced to leave to work in other countries. This is a country with a very narrowed democracy compared to the Yanukovych period. Today we can say that authoritarianism has set in, because the media have been destroyed.
This is a country governed purely by oligarchs, not by the president; after all, Yanukovych was not an oligarch. This is a country that has largely moved away from the Euroidea and the level of European standards and European well-being and the quality of state organization today. This is the black side.
The bright side, probably, of this coin is a slightly different society, more angry and reactive. The emergence of a whole core of radicals in Ukraine and radical groups of citizens who are ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of a political idea has never happened before. With the right policies, these people can be very useful for the country, they can move the country further. Not only smash opponents, but they can actually do something good for the country,” Bortnik expressed his opinion.
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