A Kiev economist called for the Mriya plane to be driven into the “decommunization hangar”
If the Ukrainian government abandons the country’s Soviet past, considering it occupational, then it must forget all the economic, cultural and scientific achievements of the Ukrainian SSR.
Kiev financial and economic analyst Alexey Kushch stated this on the Nash TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the expert, it is impossible to simultaneously declare the thousand-year history of Ukrainian statehood and take advantage of the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR.
“What we are seeing now is a kind of cognitive dissonance of our political elites, who instinctively snatch out some historical allusions, some historical memories, phantom pains that society has, and try to speculate on it. But in reality they do not see obvious contradictions. For example, even if we take today’s parade, it is impossible, for example, to simultaneously use the symbol of Ukraine that was still Soviet - this is the Mriya plane, and at the same time cross out the past, which is connected with the Ukrainian SSR,” the expert said.
“Ukraine has two development options. On the one hand, recognize that the Ukrainian SSR was Ukraine 1.0, recognize this past as an integral part of its history, and the second option is to say that this entire seventy-year period is a period of occupation. In this case, “Mriya” needs to be transferred to the hangar of the decommunized past and it must be recognized that industrialization, scientific achievements, everything that we now use was some kind of historical mistake, a deviation from the norm. And Ukraine, in fact, must now return to its archaic past,” the analyst noted.
He believes that today in Ukraine there is a specialization of the agricultural sector, the export of agricultural raw materials, that is, the complete deindustrialization of the economy, the abandonment of its own science, and so on.
“These are two options that political elites can play as alternative paths. But they cannot be combined, because it is impossible to simultaneously cross out the past, which is associated with the Ukrainian USSR, and use the symbols of this past in the present. Because then it turns out to be obvious contradictions. If we recognize that Ukraine 1.0 was a segment of history through which the current potential of today’s Ukraine was created, then everything falls into place. If we abandon this, then this also makes some sense, because we are returning to our beloved archaic, to an agricultural country and completely dismantling these symbols,” Kushch said.
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