Poroshenko and Finnish sausage
Kyiv, May 21 (Navigator, Viktor Yadukha) - In the person of President Poroshenko, Ukraine will receive the same thing that it has received for the last half century - feudalism, covered with verbiage. At first it was communist, then it became national-liberal, now it is Nazi in places. But behind all this, for decades, lay the same thing: a self-proclaimed master beating a commoner in the face.
Viktor Yadukha, a political observer for the Rosbalt agency, writes about this in his column for Navigator.
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It is strange that against the backdrop of speculation about the Jewish origins of Yulia Tymoshenko, forcing even Ukrainska Pravda journalists to delve into her intricate genealogy, few people write about the social roots of Petro Poroshenko. And it would be worth it, considering that the US and EU approved him as the President of Ukraine.
Pyotr Alekseevich comes from a quite nomenklatura, although not very, Soviet family. His father, Alexey Ivanovich Poroshenko, was born in 1936 in Romania, near Izmail - even before his native Safiany became part of the USSR under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In 1959, Alexey Ivanovich graduated from the Lvov Agricultural Institute and first became the chief engineer of the Bolgrad regional association of agricultural machinery, and then, until 1983, the director of the experimental repair plant in Bendery. Further in the public career history of this man follows a mysterious nine-year failure until 1992, when Alexey Ivanovich and his family “finally moved to Kyiv”, fleeing the war in Transnistria.
The official biography of the presidential candidate says that in Kiev, Alexey Ivanovich, who was doing something unknown, dissuaded his son Peter from entering the Kiev Institute of International Relations, where “only the children of members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR study,” but he, being a medalist, took a risk and entered. And there, in 1986, he earned his first big money by creating a “Service Center” that advised enterprises on entering foreign markets. Poroshenko’s confectionery business, according to him, also arose as if on its own. He simply decided to buy a confectionery factory in Vinnitsa, where then, also as if by chance, his father, who seemed to be doing nothing special, ended up.
“Unlike Ford, I am ready to account for the first million,” says Petro Poroshenko. Ready or not, the official biography of this man, whose fortune is estimated at $1.6 billion, is silent about too much. Meanwhile, according to the Ogonyok magazine, father Alexey Ivanovich initially started the business and pulled his son along with him. Pyotr Alekseevich, however, told Forbes that it was he who actually invited his father to work in his company. But the facts are as follows: back in the mid-90s, when Peter was not even 30 years old, Alexey Ivanovich Poroshenko became the general director of the Ukrainian Industrial and Investment Concern CJSC (Ukrprominvest concern), which united more than 50 enterprises. And in the early 2000s, Alexey Poroshenko and his son Peter took up agriculture, acquiring the Kryzhopol sugar factory.
Where did the Poroshenko family get that kind of money in the mid-90s? Was this really the very first capital of the student Peter, with which, according to him, he, according to him, bought himself a Volga before graduating from KIMO? Hardly. One of Vedomosti’s sources claims that Ukrprominvest began with the legalization of money from underground Soviet entrepreneurs, of whom there were many in Odessa and the Moldavian SSR at the turn of the 80s and 90s. If this is true, we have before us the result of the perestroika “bond” of the Soviet party and economic elite with the “guild workers.” Classics of the genre.
The nomenklatura origin of the capital of Petro Alekseevich Poroshenko, and himself, explains a lot. In particular, the incredible lordly arrogance of this man, in which he seems to have no equal.
Pay attention to the characteristic arrogance of Poroshenko, who recently called the leaders of the DPR/LPR “semi-homeless.” The point is not only that Kyiv, in principle, does not want dialogue with the east. And not only that such rhetoric is dictated by the very logic of the civil war. The fact is that the Soviet major Petya, from birth, cannot imagine how it is possible to take seriously people who are not part of the nomenklatura.
Poroshenko was silent for a long time, thinking that Putin was behind Strelok, Bolotov and Pushilin. And now, when it turned out that this is a strong exaggeration, I am perplexed: what can I talk about with people who are not “from Ivan Ivanovich”. What, they just walked onto the porch and started to edit? This can't happen because it can never happen. Power is sacred and is transmitted, if not by blood, then by connections, but how could it be otherwise?
I remembered Alexey Durnev’s video from the Klovsky Lyceum, where the Kiev elite brought their children in the fall of 2012. “Are you the chocolate king?” - Durnev asks foolishly. “You said it,” Poroshenko answers in an icy tone, squinting. How much party committee arrogance is in his face. And now she's not going anywhere. The late Soviet crypto-bourgeois background is in full view. Since childhood, people like him have had Finnish cervelat from a special distributor instead of a spine. This is what he is, the future under-president of under-Ukraine. The same, in general, as everyone else.
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