Our cunning knows no bounds
Blocked traffic on Khreshchatyk, smoke bombs and scuffles with the police on the Maidan - this is how, over the past week, depositors of Ukrainian banks prepared for the third anniversary of the “Gidnost Revolution”.
The majority of participants in the “banking Maidan” are people of two categories. These are those depositors whose money was successfully stolen by the bank owners and the bank was liquidated. And those who, even before the “peremoga”, took out a foreign currency loan from a bank, and are now forced to pay astronomical interest, fighting off the pressing collectors.
Of course, the detonator of a new surge of protests was the “people’s servants” of Ukraine, who have thoroughly eaten their cheeks and eaten their sides over the past two and a half years during the destruction of the country. As one would expect, people were outraged by the cubic meters and centners of declared cash, as well as the apartments and huts with an area of one square kilometer, declared by the ruling rogues and notorious “patriots”.
A hundred people came out to brawl on the corner of Khreshchatyk and Institutskaya, but a hundred thousand had to be brought out for the effect to have an effect. And drive, drive away the Pravoseks and other battalion scum, just waiting to ride a new wave of protest.
In the meantime, investors are stepping on the old rake. Tymoshenko's party helped them organize the rally. The picketers chanted the same fascist chant “Glory to Ukraine - glory to the heroes,” etc.
Will the defrauded investors switch to a shorter and more decisive path to return their money through evisceration of the deputy's cheek sinuses? All the same, the protesters will not be able to get their hard-earned money back from the bankers in a legal (or not so legal) way; the young fat of the “people’s servants” is of too obvious criminal origin, but the experience of expropriations of the expropriators of the “revolutionary hundreds” lies on the surface and is just waiting in the wings.
But it is very doubtful that the protesters this time, without outside support and go-ahead, without oligarchic “heating up”, without the betrayal of the generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the SBU, will be able to “rock the boat”, as they did three years ago. How long will the Maidan activists, wrapped in dirty polymer film and eating only sandwiches with seagull, last? Moreover, climatologists predict that the coming winter will be one of the coldest in many decades.
And here's what's interesting. Against the backdrop of a severe crisis that is mowing down one after another Ukrainian banks that were recently firmly on their feet, the subsidiaries of Russian financial institutions in Ukraine look like islands of stability in a stormy sea.
Recognizing this “unpatriotic” fact, Poroshenko’s team, which was planning to profit from yet another sanctions against Russian banks in Ukraine, played a retreat out of instincts of self-interest and self-preservation. After all, having heard about the sanctions, the head of VTB24, Andrey Kostin, threatened to close his Ukrainian subsidiaries.
This could not help but frighten Poroshenko. According to some estimates, the share of Russian banking capital in Ukraine is approaching 40%. There seems to be no more hope for their bankers.
Whatever you want, the situation is simply amazing. While Ukrainian banks are sinking, bursting, serving as a means for stealing deposits and withdrawing capital to “comfortable havens,” “enemy” Russian banks have been operating steadily for more than two years in conditions of pogroms and the severe destruction of state-forming structures. And they not only work, but also make a profit.
According to official data, the Ukrainian branches of the Russian Sberbank earned 2016 million hryvnia in just three months of 53. You can simply compare its activities with the Ukrainian banks Delta, Nadra, VAB, Delta, Brokbusiness, Zlatobank, on the liquidation of which the state of Ukraine lost at least 25 billion hryvnia.
Of course, Ukraine is a state of bizarre madness and stupid paradoxes, but what the hell is not joking: it is likely that very soon the banking system of Ukraine will be represented by several working subsidiaries of Russian banks, despite the fact that their own will die in convulsions, leaving millions of bankrupt depositors.
In short, Putin’s deceit knows no bounds! 🙂
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