Extermination of the elderly as the main difference between Ukraine and Russia
Moscow - Kyiv, April 22 (Navigator, Victor Yadukha) - Pensioners have become the main beneficiaries of the changes in Crimea. And they became the main victims of changes in Ukraine. The destinies of the old people, like a mirror, reflected the difference in political regimes in Kyiv and Moscow. About this in the author's column for "Navigator" writes a political observer for the Rosbalt agency Victor Yadukha.
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...Generation conflict. Many have written that in Ukraine, among other things, we are seeing exactly this. In fact, it is enough to compare by eye the average age of the “Right Sector” militants who appeared in photos and videos and the defenders of the Donetsk People’s Republic. In the first case, these are mostly young people, sometimes just children of 16-17 years old. In the second - mostly mature men 30-50 years old, the majority are clearly married, and among their supporters a large number of pensioners are striking. Of course, there are differences between pensioners and pensioners: in the west and center of Ukraine, many of them go to military registration and enlistment offices, eager to “fight with Russia.” But in general, it is clear that the support of the new regime is ideological youth.
At the same time, there is no money in the country, the entire burden of the crisis is on the shoulders of the Shirnarmass, the oligarchs have not yet forked out much for anything, and the West is waiting for the outcome of the confrontation in the southeast in order to understand who to give loans to and based on what composition of the country. But pensions are small, and soon there will be nothing to pay them with: the balance of the pension fund in Ukraine is negative. Tariffs for housing and communal services have already been raised at the request of the IMF and will continue to rise for a long time. Plus insane inflation.
All this is already resulting in pensioner social riots. Moreover, it is more difficult to distract old people with patriotic hysteria: they are not assimilated and do not succumb to the propaganda of rewritten history textbooks. They can't have their brains rewired. Hence the likely tactics of the new authorities: geronticide.
The only way out for them is to spend money on forming Sonderkommandos from young “political Ukrainians” of all stripes. And in general, feed the “Svidomo” youth in every possible way. And let those who are older survive as they wish. And honestly: the more of them die, the better for the new Ukrainian regime. National planners have long since written them off as an unrequited burden and a brake on European integration. “They didn’t fit into the market,” as Mr. Chubais would say.
Meanwhile, in Crimea, pensioners are the main beneficiaries of the changes. Young people need to switch to new education standards and re-register diplomas with certificates: all this is free, but troublesome. Students are afraid of the unknown: they studied with the expectation of working in Ukraine, and now they are faced with the Russian labor market. It is even more difficult for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs (and this is 98% of all Crimean businesses) - in Russia, with its monopoly and bureaucracy, it is this category of businessmen who has the most difficult life. I'm not even talking about agricultural workers who may be left without income at all due to Kiev cutting off water. Even state employees, whose salaries will also increase, need to adapt to the new standards. And Crimean pensioners just need to wait until July, when their pensions will increase by 100%.
This distribution is not accidental. The system of power in Russia, of which Crimea has become a part, has been relying for 1 years on pensioners, who are the core of President Putin’s electorate. Why 10 years if Putin has ruled for 15? Because the rationalist Putin also began the first years of his reign with gerontocide. But after 2004, when the notorious “monetization of benefits” caused a series of pensioner riots, the Kremlin’s internal policy began to change. The author of the unsuccessful reform, Zurabov, was sent as ambassador to Kyiv, and Putin began to openly flirt with the older generation. Moreover, the worse the relations between Russia and the West became, the more so.
Do not forget that Russia belongs to the countries with the so-called. "the second type of population reproduction." That is, to countries where there are more elderly people and women than youth and men. Therefore, such a policy on the part of the Kremlin is completely justified. Moreover, it was also justified in Crimea, where the referendum took place largely thanks to the activity and position of the elderly. So Putin does not forget about his faithful pensioners, and he is doing the right thing.
But here’s the problem: Ukraine is also a country with the second type of population reproduction. There, too, there are generally more old people and women than young people and men. And this circumstance can play a cruel joke on the country’s new ultra-liberal politicians.
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