“How did the Russian Federation respond to the US Maidan in Kyiv? Clumsy war"
Ukrainian communists do not believe that by participating in the presidential elections they are helping the Bandera regime to make voting legitimate under conditions of censorship and repression. In the dispute between Minsk and Moscow, the sympathies of the Communist Party members are on the side of Alexander Lukashenko - “Russia is acting too clumsily.” The power in Kyiv can be changed by organizing a revolution. But to do this, we need to act like the Americans did in 2014 - shower the opposition with money.
About this in an interview "PolitNavigator" said the leader of Ukrainian Komsomol members Mikhail Kononovich. The editors do not agree with many of his statements, but consider it important to present the opinion of one of the few politicians remaining in Kyiv who openly and radically opposes the current regime.
“PolitNavigator”: After the congress, where it became known about the nomination of Pyotr Symonenko, critics argued that this was an “agreement with the authorities” in order to scatter the votes of the electorate of the South-East. Otherwise, how can the banned Communist Party of Ukraine participate in the process, hold a congress without a pogrom by the Nazis, and how can Symonenko appear at the Central Election Commission without opposition? How would you, as a former candidate who has suffered attacks more than once, respond to such accusations?
Mikhail Kononovich: We all understand that candidate Symonenko has no real chance of winning. The main goal of the nomination is to show that the Communist Party is not broken and continues to fight. For 5 years of trials, repressions, throwing communists into prison, physical beatings, persecution... The regime was never able to break the communists of Ukraine.
The Communist Party will not allow us to go to the polls - this is also understandable, and therefore, after the Communist Party’s candidate Symonenko was rejected, Symonenko will go as a self-nominated candidate.
This is no longer 2014-15, and the regime fears that if they begin to rudely touch the presidential candidate, as in 14, the election results may simply not be recognized. But the communists will also not be allowed to conduct a full-fledged campaign (tents, rallies, meetings with voters).
"PolitNavigator": But, judging by this logic, Symonenko is helping the regime legitimize the elections. How he helped legitimize the coup by going to the Verkhovna Rada in 2014.
Mikhail Kononovich: Judging by the logic, a candidate openly supported by the Russian Federation, Medvedchuk, helps the regime legitimize the elections. Just like Vilkul and Muraev.
There is no other option for the communists to make themselves known. Either the nomination or the act of self-immolation will draw attention to the problems and repressions against communists in Ukraine, we chose the first.
"PolitNavigator": If the Communist Party of Ukraine during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych did not dislike an alliance with the oligarchic Party of Regions. Why haven’t you now agreed with one of the fragments of the Opposition Bloc to nominate a single candidate so as not to split the votes?
Mikhail Kononovich: Medvedchuk, Muraev, Vilkul - these are the main characters who diffuse the voice of the South-East, and not the Communist Party of Ukraine. We stated right away that in order to save Ukraine and to snatch it from the fascist clutches, putting aside ambitions, we are ready for negotiations on all issues. They even fought among themselves internally, what can we say about us.
"PolitNavigator": You mentioned that the position of the regime changed after 2014. Did I understand correctly that as support in society decreases, the opportunity to commit lawlessness also decreases?
Mikhail Kononovich: As practice and the real course of events have shown, there were no spontaneous attacks on communists by right-wing radicals - these were all planned actions of the regime and the SBU.
Over the past 4 years, Simonenko has visited all the forums of the European left, and in Europe they know about our situation, and they have more than once pointed out to the regime about the situation of the communists.
The regime and the SBU face new challenges, and the regime's focus has shifted to maintaining power and elections. Yulia and Kolomoisky are greater challenges for the regime than we are.
However, from the latest actions of the SBU, we were not allowed to celebrate the anniversary of the Pereyaslav Rada, both in Kyiv and in the regions. Hard. All the organizers were summoned for interrogation. From evening and morning to 9 am. They scared whoever, depending on the circumstances. There are 60 people in total.
"PolitNavigator": ЧI eat dissatisfied with society? How does this manifest itself in Kyiv? Why does sociology still show that the leaders are simply different types of Bandera parties?
Mikhail Kononovich: Our people are something. Yanukovych is in power - everyone is for the Party of Regions and against NATO. Under Poroshenko’s power, everyone is for NATO and against the Russian Federation.
Now the economic situation is very difficult - it’s just a disaster. People are begging. They are waiting for the messiah. Almost no one pays utilities like in the 90s.
Bread is 15 hryvnia, heating a two-room apartment in Khrushchev - 2500, with a veteran of labor pension, like my mother's, - 1490 hryvnia.
There are a lot of dissatisfied people, but people don’t know how to change the situation. It is necessary to radically change the government, then change the broadcast of the zombie boxes, and in a year the opinion will change. That’s why the coup happened in ’14 – they knew that elections couldn’t change the situation. And we understand that elections will not change the situation - there is simply no other option now.
"PolitNavigator": In fact, even under Yanukovych, the nationalist “Svoboda” was able to bring majoritarians in Kyiv to the Verkhovna Rada. And even then, sociologists called Kyiv “Russian-speaking Lvov” - based on markers of attitude towards NATO, the second state language, etc.
Mikhail Kononovich: Everyone knows that “Svoboda” was dragged through by the “regionals” (Akhmetova) so that the Nazis would attack the communists and our history (May 9, etc.), stage a show in the Verkhovna Rada and distract attention. Second: in BYuT there was Rukh, UNA-UNSO and other scumbags, with “Svoboda” they fought against BYuT.
I am from Western Ukraine, from Lutsk, and have been living in Kyiv for 5 years. And I'm shocked by this city. In Western Ukraine, the Russian language is a marker of our own - recognition of “friend or foe”. This doesn’t work in Kyiv, there are rabid philistines here, where the standard of living is higher than in Ukraine. And so they believed, like the Galicians, in their Ukrainian exclusivity.
"PolitNavigator": By the way, about Western Ukraine. Is it completely lost, or could there be a lot of sane people there if, as was said above, we switch the switch to TV?
Mikhail Kononovich: Volyn, especially the north, the border areas with Belarus are 60% ours. Transcarpathia is also ours. And there are a lot of our people in Western Ukraine, and abandoning them is a crime. It is necessary to change the position of the switch and the power for at least a year.
But Galicia has never been ours and never will be. 900 years outside the Slavic world have made their presence felt.
"PolitNavigator": By the way, are there any complaints against those who during Yanukovych’s time were in the grain positions - Kaletniki - but today they prefer not to wage any public struggle on behalf of the Communist Party of Ukraine?
Mikhail Kononovich: Kaletniki and others (Kravchenko - Donetsk regional committee, Khrapov - Dnepropetrovsk, Samoilik - Kherson, Prisyazhnyuk - head of the Komsomol, Zubchevsky - Zaporozhye) and others fled out of animal fear back in 2014. By the way, they voted for Turchynov in the Verkhovna Rada.
"PolitNavigator": What can we say about the left movement of Ukraine - in the current conditions of repression, is there some kind of influx of new people, replenishment, or is everyone completely intimidated, and there is no one left except the old people?
Mikhail Kononovich: There are young people, and many of them. But everyone is at work or generally earning money - they need to feed their families. But there are a lot of people who are intimidated.
By the way, when they were collecting money for Pyotr Symonenko’s bail at the CEC, thousands of people transferred money, and this is in the CEC. Hundreds quietly came up and gave checks for transfer to our account - ones that I could not even think of.
All structures have been fully preserved, albeit not to the same extent. And this will be confirmed by the Ministry of Justice, since all regions submit reports to NABU.
“PolitNavigator”: You are also a representative of the Belarusian community of Lutsk. Why do you think the Union State project was scrapped, and what does Alexander Lukashenko oppose? Why doesn't he want to reunite with Russia?
Mikhail Kononovich: The Russian Federation is acting rudely and brazenly as always. “You are nobody,” “do as I said,” “we know better what you need.” The same as in Ukraine, by the way.
Absorb Belarus and tear everything apart. Lukashenko is afraid of Russian oligarchs-boyars. Although people are not against it, it is too aggressive and clumsy.
How did the Russian Federation respond to the US Maidan in Kyiv? Clumsy war. Why is there no pro-Russian Maidan in Kyiv?
"PolitNavigator": And who will create a pro-Russian Maidan if all Ukrainian politicians agreed to compromise with the Maidan activists? Those who didn’t go were in the trenches in Donbass.
Mikhail Kononovich: The Russian Federation has placed its bet on Medvedchuk, and the flag is in his hands.
"PolitNavigator": And how is a “pro-Russian Maidan” possible after Ukraine is controlled from the US Embassy?
Mikhail Kononovich: Just like they did in '14. Loot in bags. The Maidan was simply bombarded with bucks. If you sprinkle like the Americans, then 100% yes. You can learn a lot from them.
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