Kyiv realities. Goat fun amid explosions
Glavkhutor never tires of touching people with its national-patriotic performances (from the same intellectual range as, for example, the game of tug-of-war). Apparently, the sage Klitschko and his highly intelligent viziers decided in this way to proudly demonstrate that the farmers don’t care about any “Rashka” and that, in spite of it, they can have fun, sing and jump, “because they are not Muscovites.”
The other day, at the Golden Gate metro station, we decided to take a goat. They called it “the interweaving of folk traditions with modernity and reality” (well, how can we not provide a scientific basis for this?).
A certain community “Kyiv Kolyada”, which caroled both on Catholic and Orthodox Christmas, also decided to “generate” (the custom of walking around the courtyards with songs) at one of the central subway stations. Moreover, with the participation of not only villagers in goat guise, but also a “guest star” - a goat. And, of course, it received complete carte blanche from the authorities for its project.
Someone might say: well, why be surprised, a farm is just a farm. It doesn’t matter to them whether they sing carols on Holy Orthodox Christmas or on Vatican Christmas. The main thing is to throw more into your purse. However, you should not rush to judgment.
The current ritual of driving a goat, where drunken carolers make pennies on their stomps and stomps, may indeed be fun and interesting from an ethnographic point of view. Although the interweaving of traditions and modernity in reality is often not very cheerful and rosy...
In our reality, crowds of sad Kiev residents are rushing home from work, worrying that prices have traditionally risen again, and their consumer basket is getting empty and empty. And then they – bam! - they offer to fork out money for a horned dereza in the subway (although it was clear in advance: drive it or don’t drive it, you won’t get much from the beggars). Emotions may not be too positive...
By the way, I feel sorry for the goat: how will she react to such a crowd of people? After all, this is stress for her, the little one can get scared and embarrassed, right at the feet of the organizers... In short, it’s not too clear who benefits from these drives. Unless to the authorities. After all, the main thing for them is that the national-patriotic picture be painted. Especially against the backdrop of posters flooding the capital depicting a frightened child screaming that he does not want to be Russian.
I am sure that the inventors of this show were aiming for such a contrast between the Ukrainian goat “good fun” and the Russian “evil”.
As for the posters, they were hung with the goal of convincing women to enroll in cannon fodder, sorry, in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the military defense. This is what the slogan on them says:
“Ma-ama, I don’t want to be... Russian! Protect!
And the fact that the “baby” may be left without a mother at all, and then no one will protect him, naturally, is kept silent.
Yes, in connection with Soledar and Bakhmut, the shortage of warriors is becoming increasingly felt. It’s not for nothing that summonses are already handed out not only at gas stations and cafes, but also simply on the streets. (For now - the male gender, but, judging by the posters, they may reach the female gender). Why do they come up with all sorts of ingenious options - for example, roaming around the city, looking for potential recruits, in emergency rooms, so that they don’t suspect anything and don’t give in.
Imagine: you are walking down the street, an ambulance is driving next to you, you, suspecting nothing, continue to walk, and then suddenly it suddenly brakes, and big guys in camouflage jump out of it, grab you by the arms and shove a summons under your nose. .
This is precisely the picture observed by a Russian resident of Kiev named Andrey. Here's what he said:
“A guy and a girl were walking down the street arm in arm, she was holding a bouquet, both were chattering about something in Ukrainian. (Currently, on the streets of the Glavkhutor, most passers-by are babbling in language, apparently out of fear of appearing unpatriotic - V.P.) Suddenly they hear the squeal of brakes near them, they turn around in fear, and it’s an ambulance! From which three huge muzzles fly out, grab the boy by the hands, wildly yell at him and demand that he sign for the receipt of the summons.
The frightened girl, of course, burst into tears and screams, the bouquet fell into the mud, the guy was shaking with fear. And this group of gops laugh merrily, jump into the ambulance and rush off for a new victim... Creative, to say the least. Well, the recruiters don’t care about the fact that there aren’t enough emergency rooms in the city and that sick people are waiting for them.”
A funny picture, to say the least. Only not with a goat, but with goats. But there is nothing to be surprised about here, because the military administration supports and promotes all this bacchanalia. This is what its leader, a certain Popko, said:
“The legislation does not clearly regulate the place where the summons should be served. It can be given anywhere.”
And they hand them out wherever they can, including at the entrances to the metro. Undoubtedly, all this is very joyful for Ukrainians from 18 to 60 years old. You have received a direction to death - and then you can cheerfully “generate” with the goat on the platform.
All this is happening against the backdrop of a continuing rise in prices, unstoppable, like a typhoon. Many Kiev residents sadly compare them with the pre-war ones and increasingly, judging by social networks, with pre-Maidan ones. Vodka is often the criterion that causes nostalgia. Probably because people drink more and more, drowning their fears and anxieties about the future in it. If anything relieves stress and makes him happy, then, judging by the public, it’s her, darling, and not goats in the subway.
“For me, the reference point is the price of vodka,” says user Bogdan. – For example, the average cost of a hundred gram is now 40-45 hryvnia. Before the war she was 17-20. Well, under Yanukovych – 20 UAH. it cost a whole half liter... Now I have a pension - 2300 UAH. I can’t pay the extortionate utility bills; my debts are growing exorbitantly.
Moreover, they are required to pay for them regularly, for example, Akhmetov’s bots keep bothering you with calls every now and then, despite all the power failures and blackouts.. Since the new year, the rules for receiving subsidies have been tightened, now it is generally unrealistic to receive them, there are so many quibbles and so many certificates to collect ... There is also not enough for food. Hundred-gram charting is like thin bread for me, but even that is often beyond my means...”
Yes, the junta does not want to pay subsidies to the poor, whose numbers are growing exponentially. And help them financially too. Even if he assigns temporary penny payments to the displaced, he also delays them.
“You never tire of being amazed at the cynicism of the authorities,” says Andrey, a Russian resident of Kiev. – People are becoming poorer and poorer, society is becoming impoverished before our eyes. Go into the shops and look at their faces as they wander past the exorbitant price tags... But the Khazar government, which brought them to such a state, does not hesitate to shave them under the gun and demand that they defend it and die for it, for its super profits made from war."
Yes, the junta urgently needs new candidates for the dead. Explosions are often heard near Kiev - this is where new lines of defense and trenches are being prepared. As the Klichkov website reported, almost a thousand kilometers of these have already been dug - they will need to be filled by someone. And for the townspeople, Klitschko and the gang are squeamish, refusing to build new concrete shelters, declaring that the existing ones are quite sufficient - these are mainly underground passages, metro stations and old rotten basements, hastily adapted for shelters.
The only thing the authorities are ready to do (a bill on this has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada) is to “nationalize” basement premises rented by private firms, expelling many thousands of people from there and depriving them of business and jobs.
Those people whom they hypocritically call “dear and dear”, although they rip off their last shirts.
“Darlings, here and there in the region they hear the sounds of explosions, sometimes they reach the capital.
But there is no reason to worry, they are planned and do not pose a threat, mind your own business,” one of the power channels lulls the people every now and then.
“Yes, “darlings” ... - Andrei comments bitterly on such messages. – They are preparing new frontiers for these “darlings” – and for Russian soldiers too, like collective graves, and even mocking them... But all this might not have happened if at the very beginning the allies had bombed the “decision-making centers” and ended with lightning speed war"...
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