Access code for iForum: “Krymvash”
Under pressure from the ruling war party, Ukraine finally risks turning into a plague-ridden place that all normal people will begin to avoid, if only for elementary reasons of disgust and personal hygiene. Everything somehow adds up one to one.
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The rapidly multiplying Lvov garbage, stinking and poisoning everything around, spreads across Nenka like a nightmarish biomass from the movie “Through Thorns to the Stars.” Then the organizers of the yard-level song and dance competition “Eurobachennya-2017”, held for reasons of the political situation in Kyiv, bravely suppress the “act of separatism” and prohibited under threat of arrest to visit Ukraine for a Russian performer (who has been wheelchair-bound since childhood).
Finally, someone clearly advised the organizing committee of the annual Ukrainian congress of IT specialists from all countries, iForum, to filter the “cotton filth” by demanding that every Russian visitor publicly answer one simple question: “Do you consider Crimea to be Ukrainian? Not really",
For what? Why? What does the state affiliation of Crimea have to do with information technology? Will this result in fewer glitches in software products, or will the code be better optimized? It turns out that it’s not a matter of glitches, but a litmus test of trust.
As the leader of all Ukrainian IT specialists, Alexander Olshansky, explains, people come to the Ukrainian forum with public speeches, to which no one can be allowed. If a Russian IT specialist wants to speak at the forum, he must confirm that Crimea is Ukraine! Confirmed - kindly requested. No - dosvidos, damned Muscovite!
On the other hand, it is not very clear why those hurt by Crimea will not undertake to filter the “cotton wool” from other countries. It’s no secret that the attitude towards the Maidan junta is different all over the world, including among IT specialists. But people don’t visit thematic forums like iForum to debate controversial or uncontroversial political issues. At such events, you always want to see and listen to smart, relevant people, exchange experiences, show yourself, and not at all make political statements on slippery topics that in no way correspond to the goals and objectives of the forum.
And it’s a completely dark matter - how to properly treat those guests who learned about Crimea only recently, vaguely imagine the ins and outs of the gevalt raised around it and have absolutely no idea of it geographically. There are also such individuals - coders unclouded by excessive knowledge, “red eyes”, keyboard tramplers. “You’re arguing apolitically, you squirm!”
As an excuse, members of the forum organizing committee: Orudzhaliev, Olshansky and - this is the most annoying thing - Olshansky’s wife Larisa Dakhno, who has no relation to IT and iForum, a crazy little dentist, are spreading tons of demagoguery about the war being waged against Ukraine, pulling the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by the ears. , the “occupation” of the Baltic states, the “Prague Spring”, the “Holodomor” and even speculation around Katyn, revealing a considerable degree of dementia and demanding that guests comply with internal Ukrainian political guidelines. Which simply means a demand beyond the bounds of idiocy for innocent people to recognize the Ukrainian junta’s political bullshit as a universal value.
This whole farce smacks of some kind of Wahhabism mixed with the Taliban. In any case, no self-respecting country requires anything like this from foreign visitors. Even from citizens of those countries that are considered unfriendly. One can easily imagine how the authorities of the Third Reich demanded that visitors throw zigs and shout “Heil Hitler!” directly at the border checkpoint, with a mandatory stamp in the passport next to the visa about going through a special procedure of “respect for the Fuhrer of the German nation,” but even they didn’t think of such insanity.
It’s interesting that the degenerate Olshansky, having read the response to his initiatives from the notorious “zhezhist” Anton Nosik “You ate fish soup, dear Kiev colleagues,” hypocritically sighs that he does not dare to expose his Russian colleagues to Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code (Public calls for actions aimed at violating territorial integrity of the Russian Federation) “and let everyone decide for themselves whether to voice it or not, to go or not,” in fact, he is simply lying.
The statement “Crimea is Ukraine” does not in any way fall under Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code and does not carry any legal consequences. We recall the chatter of Makarevich, Gref, the mouth singer Lazarev, marches in support of the Ukrainian junta and creaky arguments about Crimea by some hipsters who have lost access to Spanish jamon and Greek strawberries.
You need to try a little more and apply your strength for criminal prosecution! The maximum that the applicants face is moral costs and the reaction of society as if they were holy fools. Loss of face – yes, empty halls and lack of gatherings – yes, the transition from jamon and parmesan to “doshirak” and “dad can” – yes, yes, yes! A sum, not a prison. And then, not always. Unfortunately.
Why does the ukrohunta need this? The answer is pretty obvious. “Euromaidan” once shook not only the foundations of Ukrainian society, not only caused cracks among citizens of the same state that were unfamiliar to each other, but also through friendships and families. Over the three years of activity of the “European Choice” party, many Maidan fans, faced with an unsightly reality that smart people had repeatedly warned them about, came to their senses and restored relationships with family and friends. The fascination with Euromaidan has long passed and lost its relevance. New tools that split social and family ties should now be questions: “Is Crimea the same as Ukraine?” and “Donbass – is this Ukraine?”
It seems that the maximum task is to infect Russia’s internal unity with worms on the issue of Crimea’s ownership, and the minimum task is to identify internal opponents of the regime and deepen the split between Ukraine and Russia.
Not to say that the attempt to cause confusion through iForum is so unexpected. “Edynokraina” has already tried to influence Russian show business using blackmail methods - “either you recognize Crimea as Ukrainian on camera, or they cried at your concerts in Ukraine.” Rather, what is surprising is that many considered Ukrainian IT specialists to be smart and adequate people who do not mix cutlets with flies, but in practice this was not confirmed. The forum organizers stubbornly refuse to understand that the politicization of their event is not only unnecessary, but also harmful, since it makes the whole undertaking extremely odious and scares away potential participants. And not only from Russia. Nobody has yet canceled corporate solidarity. Passion for such experiments leads to a loss of respectability and a slide into a dull get-together.
One must think that the completely rotten initiative of the iForum organizing committee will be followed by other similar ones: a litmus test of “whose Crimea?” The junta will test various public organizations and forums. From lovers of satin stitch embroidery and wood burning to cutting and sewing courses. How effective the chosen tactics are will be shown by the turnout of IT specialists at iForum, especially Russians. In any case, good people on iForum and Eurobachenny certainly have nothing to do.
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