Being an atheist and a direct technocrat in life, I do not believe in astrology, palmistry, the thirteenth, the evil eye, Baba Vanga, black cats and everything that Predicted by Nostus suffered. I also don’t believe in signs, the showering of time through the empty Mayan calendar, and that on the next beautiful date the Earth will fly onto the celestial axis. But sometimes events happen in life that are definitely significant.
Judge for yourself. In the fall of 2013, shortly before the start of the most democratic livariation of hydnost and peremogi, a consumer electronics supermarket in Simferopol burned down on Kievskaya Street, next to the former Mir cinema. The cause of the fire, apparently, was the usual savings (read: greed) of the supermarket owner to make the internal electrical network of the premises suitable for the operation of a significant number of connected household appliances. The fire and rescue services arrived, poured truck after truck of water onto the building engulfed in flames, and worked for several hours. But all in vain: the building turned into a pile of charred garbage with no prospect of restoration. The burnt bald area was surrounded by a temporary fence, the garbage was taken out, but they have not yet figured out what to build in its place.
It would seem, well, it burned out and burned out - what’s wrong with that? One store more, one store less. But the incident caught my attention. Old-timers of Simferopol, who caught the early 1970s at a conscious age, will immediately remember that the building in which the first food supermarket “Kyiv” was originally located in Crimea burned down. As schoolchildren, we went to this supermarket to buy strawberry ice cream or ice cream, depending on the amount of change in our pocket, in order to wait for a movie show in the nearby largest wide-screen cinema in Simferopol. In the mid-90s, the supermarket was on its last legs; in the early 2000s, life began to reignite there; in the 2010s, television panels and furniture were briskly sold in the former “Kyiv.” But due to bungling and greed, the building that had stood for 40 years and the materiel displayed inside it burned down. And all this on the eve of memorable events in Kyiv, which later erupted throughout Ukraine.
That's how it is with Maidan. After all, they warned the arsonists: you will not only burn Kyiv and Odessa - you will burn the whole of Ukraine! So there are two iconic ashes left. I haven’t been worried about Simferopol for a long time - sooner or later, on the site of the burnt Kyiv supermarket, something useful will be built for the city and people. But how will it work out with Ukraine - that’s the question...