The main result of May 9: It turned out that Ukrainian Nazis can be beaten
The Ukrainian government lost on May 9, which turned into a protest against the current humanitarian policy.
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Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management, said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The government as a whole certainly lost on May 9. 600 thousand people, according to official data, took to the streets, this is not only a tribute to the memory of the Victory, but also a protest against the current humanitarian policy. Many of the people who came out told me that they wanted to show that the glorification of the right was unacceptable to them. And I predict that next year there will be even more people at these events, which politicians cannot ignore,” the expert believes.
He also said that on May 9 the government lost the fight for public opinion.
“Why was there such sharp reaction from the authorities with the dismissal of the heads of the internal affairs department? For the first time in the last three years, the government has lost its illegal monopoly on violence. Relatively speaking, if previously the rightists beat someone constantly, then they simply stopped reacting to this, it became our everyday life. But in Dnieper and Nikolaev beat the right. And for the authorities, the right is one of the most valuable mechanisms of social management. And as soon as this instrument is destroyed and the rightists begin to be beaten, the current government will also crumble,” the political scientist is convinced.
“That’s why the reaction to the fact that the rightists were beaten was so harsh, with the dismissals of the Dnieper police, with attack on Afghan headquarters in Nikolaev. They tried to balance the situation. As soon as society understands that the right is powerless, that they too can be beaten if they break the law, the current system of power will simply collapse. In 2017, Victory Day posed this question: what can the right do next? Do they really have a monopoly on illegal violence or can other people have this right too? This is the question that most worried both Avakov and our government,” Bortnik concluded.
See also: “You don’t care..yes”, - Montyan about May 9 as the beginning of the end of the Maidan activists.
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