“I can’t imagine such devastation in the Kremlin!” – what the Maidan activists brought Kyiv to
Even the very center of Kyiv bears clear signs of degradation, steadily advancing as a result of the 2014 coup d'etat.
The head of the Housing Union of Ukraine, Alexander Skubchenko, wrote about this on his Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Skubchenko cites as an example the state of the Writers’ House, which is located next to Vladimir Zelensky’s office.
“In the tsarist past it was the Lieberman mansion, today it is the Writer’s House. Survived two wars in the last century: civil and Great Patriotic War. Monument to the history of the city. Bankovaya street-2 capital.
30 meters to the side - the National Bank, 50 meters - Rada committees, 100 - Office of the President, 200 - Cabinet of Ministers, 300 - Rada, 400 - Maidan and Khreshchatyk, 700 - Kyiv City Council and Mayor Klitschko.
An information plaque on the shabby façade seems to say that this monument is protected by the state. An architectural monument, already overgrown with trees on the facade,” Skubchenko describes the picture.
According to him, even in the center of Kyiv, the situation often resembles a depressed and forgotten periphery.
“I can’t imagine what Lukashenko would have done to the mayor if something similar had happened in Minsk. I can’t imagine such devastation in the Kremlin. I have not seen such desolation in any European capital. Crowds of tourists, excursions and guests of the capital see this every day.
Every day, the highest officials of the country pass by - ministers, deputies, directors and chiefs of various calibers. They pass by. They all don’t care,” the social activist noted.
In his opinion, today's Kyiv is “dirt and devastation.” “You especially understand this in contrast when returning from abroad. And this is the capital, the richest city in the country. The periphery is in an even more miserable and neglected state,” Skubchenko wrote.
In post-Maidan Ukraine, the social activist emphasized, it is more important what the street will be called, and not how clean it will be.
“Let her be dirty and killed, as long as she bears the name of Bandera and not Zhukova. Let the Writer's House be overgrown with trees, as long as there are no books by Pushkin in it. The country is in ruins. Municipal infrastructure, apartment buildings, architectural monuments, utility networks - all this is living out its life. Somewhere it crumbles, somewhere it breaks, somewhere it collapses. Like ownerless, like nobody’s,” Skubchenko wrote.
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