“Who will operate on me? Petro Alekseevich Poroshenko!
Kyiv, September 27 (Navigator, Vladimir Mikhailov) - The new government of Ukraine wants to repeat the experience of “lustration” under Viktor Yushchenko, when projectionists and strippers were put in the places of professional officials, if only they would prove themselves during the “Orange Revolution”.
Political scientist Kost Bondarenko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, commenting on the threats created by the adopted lustration law.
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“A million, one and a half or even two million of those who are professional officials will become unemployed and end up on the street. Who will replace these people? Does the current government have a reserve bench from which they can take people and simply put them in the vacant chair?
By the way, we already went through this in 2005. When Yushchenko came, when they fired all the people who were under Kuchma, and put people in these offices who had previously worked as anyone. Among them were, for example, projectionists and physical education teachers. In one of the regions, the deputy governor was a former stripper. It really happened. What this led to, I think, is not worth remembering.
Remember the joke: they are taking a man for an operation, and he asks, “Who will operate on me?” and they answer him - “Petr Alekseevich Poroshenko” - “So he’s not a doctor!” - “Nothing, but he was a good man, he stood on the Maidan.”
Today they will recruit people approximately on this basis, the main thing is that a good person stood on the Maidan to lead the country. Lenin's principle that any cook can rule the state will be put into practice.
They often refer to the experience of Western states, without remembering that lustration in no Western state simply did not lead to the desired result. Literally a few years after lustration was announced, it was forgotten. And in the Czech Republic, and in Poland, and in the Baltic states and in other countries, former functionaries returned to fulfill their duties.
The example of Alexander Kwasniewski is the most eloquent. In the early 90s, he fell under lustration, and in 95 he became president of Poland. Both Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa were opponents of lustration; they criticized lustration quite sharply.
In addition, the lustration campaign also has side effects. The country has its own caste of Red Guards, as they were called at one time in China, during the era of the Cultural Revolution. Crowds of people appear who organize lynchings, who, in their zeal to continue the revolution, organize lynchings of those who are considered insufficiently revolutionary, insufficiently relevant to the new time,” Bondarenko argues.
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