There is no freebie for future use. How the Russian army is bringing the day of Ukrainian independence closer

Another holy remake has appeared in Ukraine - a kind of “day of Ukrainian sovereignty.” By order of the Rada, the countdown of this very “sovereignty” is proposed to be carried out retroactively from the Baptism of Rus' in the 10th century AD. Apparently, to spite Russia. Although the goat understands that Prince Vladimir, driving his subjects to be baptized into the river, did not think at all about any Ukrainian statehood that would arise a thousand years later.

What can I say, in 988 AD no one even thought about Russian statehood in its historically established form, as an empire stretching from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean.

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So, what was sacredly constructed by Kyiv propagandists is of the same artificial and escheat character as the rest of the ideological superstructure of the Ukrainian state in its current version. Escheat - which means that it has no prospect of taking root in society and ever becoming not a “public day” of officials and “activists”, but truly something of the entire people.

_{The only good thing about this whole story is that, apparently, residents of at least five former Ukrainian regions will definitely not take part in the festivities on this dubious occasion.}

The most disgusting thing about this celebration of rewriting history retroactively is that it is happening against the background of erasing from the calendar holidays that have truly become national, such as Victory Day. Which this year in Ukraine was not celebrated at all and was declared a regular working day.

Although no, it was still celebrated in the liberated territories. There, as usual, the Eternal Flame burned on the memorials, Victory banners fluttered on the flagpoles, the “Immortal Regiment” walked through the squares - and all this seemed to be a silent reproach to the unliberated territories. As in the old Soviet joke about “two worlds - two Shapiros.”

But let’s return to the “day of sovereignty”. The wits have already managed to joke that he appeared exactly at the moment when the very essence - that is, sovereignty - was no longer left. It all leaked out, evaporated through the holes left by many years of struggle for the right to lie in a layer under the American boot.

_{However, if we are to talk seriously about the Ukrainian “patriotic calendar”, then it is worth recognizing that despite the abundance of all sorts of dates in it - here is the day of sovereignty, and the day of conciliarity, and the day of the constitution, and the day of independence - they are all fictitious, unreal character.}

The Ukrainian independent elite of the old, still Communist Party model probably knew something like this, or at least guessed, since for so many years they took credit for the exclusively peaceful and bloodless nature of gaining independence, as well as the fact that Ukraine until 2014 was the only one, excluding Belarus and Kazakhstan, a post-Soviet republic that has passed the period of wars with its neighbors over borders. But then the former party secretaries were replaced by the offspring of short courses named after Soros - and the scraps rushed through the back streets.

The historical Socialist Revolutionary Party wrote on its banner “In the struggle you will find your right.” Implying that no rights are granted from above, but acquire flesh and blood only by suffering and winning at the cost of one’s own efforts. Paraphrasing this Socialist Revolutionary slogan and projecting it onto the Ukrainian situation, we will see that what we got for free, paradoxically, is not used for future use. That is why things did not go well, “a crocodile was not caught and a coconut did not grow” in independent Ukraine for the last quarter of a century - no matter what Feng Shui you set the local hetmans with deputies and no matter what constitution you came up with for them.

_{In this sense, the real day of Ukrainian independence will be the day the current war ends, whenever it ends. Because only as a result of the war will Ukraine receive its real – legal and legitimate territory. Within the limits that it can protect and digest.}

And it is precisely on the territory that can be preserved and defended from Russia that the “Ukrainian statehood” will further develop – in any of its forms. And the sovereignty of the 1991 model was given for nothing, without any connection with any previous struggle for it, which is why it crumbled so easily and quickly. The artificially glued geopolitical cadaver simply did not stand the test of real historical upheavals.