Kharkov: another “ATO hero” realized himself to the end
An ATO soldier was buried in Kharkov. Maybe this shouldn’t be talked about, but the dead man turned out to be a well-known person in the city. This is not a new recruit or an “activist” who saw the light of day along with the Maidan, but a personality long familiar to everyone who has long been involved in the public life of the city. In fact, his fate shows the flaws of this very life that have accumulated over decades.
Vadim Gusakov worked at school 62 in the Kharkov district of Pyatikhatki as the head teacher of educational work. He himself is also a graduate of the same school in 1982. In April 2014, he volunteered for the army and led a platoon of the 22nd Kharkov battalion. He served in the Lugansk region, near Trekhizbenka.
The deceased, as you have already noticed, was a history teacher and head teacher of a Ukrainian-language school, which refused to open Russian classes. In addition, for years he taught a course on the history of Ukraine with known wormholes, so he could hardly fight on the other side of the front.
This is what is on the surface. Here's what the old-timers know.
Gusakov has actively participated in all elections since 1994 - both in headquarters, and as a deputy of the district council, and as a party leader on a city scale. He was a united Social Democrat and, together with the director of his school, Mr. Gryanik, organized May meetings in the city center. And then the demand for caring people began to fall and, most importantly, the places where they could express themselves began to shrink sharply.
In the political circle that had been developing in Kharkov for decades, at some point there was no place for people like him. He didn’t have the kind of wallet to play for his own money, that is, rent a room, buy the necessary office equipment and much more. If you look at the lists of local deputies at all levels, by the end of the nineties, at best, school principals were on them. He also did not fit into the ranks of grant recipients and clients of the “big men and women,” but he also could not be satisfied with just working at the school.
He was not a convinced oppositionist, he did not scandal with the authorities, but he was not attracted by them for anything more than school. Neighborhood self-government councils did not take root in Kharkov, district councils were dissolved, and there was nowhere to be active.
2014 provided an opportunity to throw out all the energy that had been accumulating for years. Those who truly loved the city came to its defense. Many of them were separated from their families and work for the first time in many years.
Others began to become active on the winning side - they went to fight or volunteer. The first head of the regional union of Afghanistan veterans, Slidenko (previously nominated to the city council from the VO “Svoboda”), ended up in “Aidar”; Judge Mamalui, from a well-known professorial family in the city, fought in another volunteer battalion. And this list is not short. Others actively volunteer - some with displaced people, some near a military hospital, and some going to the front line. So, they are in business, they are in demand for the first time in many years.
Vadim Gusakov, as it turned out, realized himself to the end. The funeral service was held for him in the canonical Orthodox church, the mourners spoke Russian among themselves... There will now be a new head teacher at the school.
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