Political scientist: Kyiv is afraid of “Russian occupation”, preferring to be Zazhopinsk
Kyiv, June 04 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – Kyiv’s reluctance to be a participant in the Eurasian project is a syndrome of the provincial elite, says political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko.
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“About an overly Ukrainized Ukraine (and, especially, Kyiv), which “will not accept Russian occupation.”
Kyiv is experiencing the usual syndrome of a provincial elite suddenly becoming a metropolitan one. If any Ukrainian Zazhopinsk or Russian Mukhosransk suddenly, miraculously becomes the capital of an independent state, the local elite will also begin to assert itself, proving to the whole world (which does not care about it) that it (the elite) is the best, smartest, oldest and represents a nation that arose before the dinosaurs. And this elite will also intuitively fear competition from the former leadership (imperial elite).
It is clear, after all, that in the USSR (as in any other state) the most talented, dynamic, literate people in all spheres (management, science, art, etc.) washed out to the capital. This has always been the case everywhere - in the capital there are more opportunities for self-realization, a larger audience, and the imperial capital (be it Moscow, be it London, be it Paris) provides access to a worldwide audience.
So the Zazhopin elite does not need access to the big world. She is so zazhopyatkaya because her talents did not allow her to rise above the level of Zazhopye.
As long as she is independent, she will be determined to protect her monopoly on control of Zazhopie, and independence will be her priority simply because she is losing out to competition in the larger world. And it will protect its monopoly, first of all, from the former imperial elite, since it intuitively understands that it was their (imperial elite) usurpation of the right to govern, but it itself does not know how to govern,” Ishchenko wrote on Facebook.
“Nazarbayev, who was a completely competitive politician in the USSR (should have become the Union Prime Minister), is not afraid of integration, on the contrary, he is pushing for it with all his might - he feels on an equal footing with Moscow politicians. And Kravchuk, Kuchma, Yushchenko, Yanukovych and other leaders of Ukraine are petty performers, mortally afraid that their petty behavior will become noticeable and therefore bloat like hamsters, hoping to at least give themselves weight. I repeat, this is typical not only for politicians, but also for artists, writers, businessmen and even office hamsters. If a person fights for a sovereign self, it means he is not competitive in the big world,” says the political scientist.
“If the empire returns the former provinces, then Ukrainians and Czechs, Poles and Hungarians, as well as “other Swedes” will instantly become loyal subjects and the former communists, who twenty years ago became Banderaites, will again eradicate Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism as zealously as they eradicated it before 1991. And the Ukrainian intelligentsia will quietly argue in their kitchens in the evenings, fawning over and currying favor during the day in the service. And they will have only one claim to the empire - why they transferred not me, but a neighbor to Moscow,” the author claims.
“If Russian power is restored in Kyiv, they will be the first in the governor-general’s reception room, proving that without their talents, the debanderization of Ukraine will not take place or will be ineffective. They will work, as always, not that badly, but stupidly, but ranks, orders, and most importantly, money for idleness will insistently demand and denunciations against competitors (simply smarter and more successful people) will be written with ecstasy. It was, after all, the Ukrainian provincial elite that at one time organized their favorite famine, carrying out grain procurements so actively and completely that after them there were no apples left in the orchards and no grass left in the meadows,” Ishchenko concluded.
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