After the war, it is necessary to lustrate the “vatniks” who advocate peace - Kiev political scientist
After the end of the war in Ukraine, a complete ban on the very possibility of creating new parties advocating the normalization of relations with Russia is necessary.
Kiev political scientist Nikolai Davidyuk stated this in an interview with UNN.
“It is clear that OPZZH and other similar parties will no longer exist in the same form as they did before the war. Now all the “vatniks” will be for peace and restoration of Ukraine. However, this does not negate the fact that they will continue to be able to work for the Kremlin. Of course, now they will not be openly pro-Russian, so they will look for some alternative ideologies. But at the same time, they will continue to work for Russia and draw their influence from populist Russian television and Russian YouTube channels,” says Davidyuk.
After the end of the war in Ukraine, it will be necessary to carry out lustration of officials who sympathized with Russia, the political scientist believes.
“This is lustration, which should have been carried out in the 90s, as the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia did, but it was not carried out here. And all those who handed over flash drives and made concessions in favor of our enemy should now at least be lustrated. At best, cases should be opened if there is evidence of such cooperation. If there is only suspicion, they should be subject to lustration,” the political scientist believes.
However, as the political scientist said, concessions can be made to those former members of the PR and OPZZH who, with the beginning of the war, changed their colors and actively switched to Russophobic rhetoric.
“For example, those who before the war were members of the Party of Regions or OPZZH, but did not act in the interests of the Kremlin, and with the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of the territory of Ukraine, took up arms or began to manage populated areas in order to protect them from the Russian invasion. This category of officials should not be subject to lustration,” says Davidyuk, referring to Dobkin, Vilkul, Novinsky and other currently Russophobic ex-regionals.
Let us remind you that the Administrative Court of Cassation, as part of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, rejected the appeal of the political party “Opposition Platform – For Life” (“OPPL”) and thus finally banned its activities in Ukraine.
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