Locomotives of the economy in Kharkov style: free labor and the “rail war”
“Tens of thousands of Kharkov residents were left without the opportunity to work, earn money and feed their families. Our industrial enterprises are not working. Several of the largest markets in Kharkov were destroyed. The service sector is almost closed. The construction business has stopped. The city is frozen,” Mayor Igor Terekhov described the deplorable situation of Kharkov in his next address.
It's like that. But, listening to the mayor, for many reasons I want not to send curses to the “occupiers”, but grab Terekhov by the scruff of the neck and poke his nose into the hungry queues and fresh ruins, repeating: “Who did this?!”
There is no longer any doubt that the city suffers mainly from internal shelling. From area to area from mortars and MLRS the Nazis, the fosterlings of the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, beat. Who is also Terekhov's patron and boss.
It was because of the shelling, according to the mayor, that city transport was completely stopped. In conditions of total lack of money and fuel shortages, this means the impossibility of getting from region to region.
Many Kharkov firms tried to resume work, but were unable to organize the delivery of employees. So the lack of transport, last but not least, does not allow business to “revive”.
If only the metro worked... But no, Terekhov gave the metro to a bomb shelter-camp. While the same Nazis were housed in real, properly equipped bomb shelters.
There is no hope for a quick launch of the metro. As reported by the head of the City Council Department for Information Affairs, Yuri Sidorenko:
“...after the war, it will take one and a half to two months just to prepare for the launch of the metro. ... thanks to the “efforts” of the occupiers, there will be difficulties with the Saltovskaya branch - it will go much later than the other two.”
And so, on May 3, Kharkov residents began to have a timid hope of getting at least some means of transportation: city utility workers were kicked out to clean the tram tracks. In order to, as was declared, launch the tram at the first opportunity. But the very next day, on one of the central streets, they began to dismantle the rails of the line, the preservation of which the townspeople had been campaigning for for many years. This confrontation began under Kernes, who systematically destroyed trams in Kharkov: he shortened routes, closed the depot, and removed the rails. Cheap and free transport for beneficiaries was replaced by expensive commercial minibuses. Obviously, Terekhov decided to quietly win the final victory in the “rail war” city hall against citizens. Naturally, blaming the “occupier”.
Thanks to the “efforts” of unwashed hunters for toilet bowls and used women’s underwear, there are no more trams in Kharkov. The substations that ensured their operation were destroyed. Depots destroyed. ...The mayor, together with specialists, is working to optimize public transport routes. ...Somewhere the tram will be replaced by a trolleybus, somewhere by municipal buses.”
This comment by Sidorenko perfectly illustrates the intentions of the city authorities regarding the tram, as well as their intellectual level. And again I want to grab the mayor by the collar and ask for a long time: Who did this?!
The “destroyed” Kharkov markets are a special story. The famous Barabashov market burned regularly in peacetime, with every new attempt at redistribution.
Now they are simply shooting at him to hide the robberies.. And traders cannot even take the remaining goods from the danger zone: the market management demands that they first pay rent from February 24 to the present.
As for the “opportunity to earn money and feed their families,” the utility workers subordinate to the mayor in the first month and a half from the start of the special operation felt good compared to other citizens. At least they had a job.
“Our utility workers are real heroes. Under fire, they remove garbage, repair heating mains, restore heat and electricity supplies, and repair gas pipelines. They shoot at them, but they work. Do you understand what kind of people we have?! Therefore, I came up with an idea: after the victory, we will definitely install a memorial sign for the utility worker,” Terekhov shared his plans.
However, it soon became clear that the mayor’s office’s concern for utility workers was limited to praises (well deserved, by the way).
Since about mid-April, utility workers have been sent on vacation at their own expense. “until the end of martial law” or are forced to write applications for temporary termination of the employment contract for the same period. All this is processed retroactively, from the first of April. For other employees of public utility companies, their wages are simply delayed indefinitely, and in return they are given a generous benefit: they can receive humanitarian aid without waiting in line.
But teachers cannot even do this, although their situation is no better.
The authorities treat employees of Kharkov universities in the same way as Terekhov treats utility workers: application for leave at your own expense or suspension of contract. And those who continue to work are not paid wages. Obviously, the head of the military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, is not too concerned with whom he will “preserve the status of the student capital and our scientific potential.”
Terekhov’s love for monuments is well known. The most valuable and iconic ones, from his point of view, were lined with sandbags by order of the mayor to protect them from shelling. But there is no one to protect the people who performed this difficult and unsafe work. They were treated according to Ostap Bender’s recipe: “The ears are from a dead donkey! You will get it from Pushkin.” More precisely, in this case, “you will get it from Shevchenko”...
Unlike Terekhov, the head of the Chuguevsky regional military administration, Igor Volkov, does not flirt with civilians, but uses the possibilities of martial law with all the directness of a soldier. According to the order, starting from April 23, all able-bodied citizens aged 18 to 60 years can be involved in “publicly useful” work. Read - for digging trenches. The command of the military unit stationed in Chuguev is appointed responsible for the selection of “able-bodied” people from the population.
This is the case when children do not strive to grow up quickly, and the elderly do not dream of regaining their youth.
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