Epiphany of Maidan activists: The editor of an influential Kyiv publication admitted the failure of Ukraine

The political class used Ukrainian independence for only one purpose - to plunder and plunder.

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This opinion is expressed in an article published on the pages of the Kyiv weekly “Mirror of the Week” by Yulia Mostovaya, editor of this publication, regularly included in the rating of the most influential women in Ukraine.

"I want to leave. Somewhere there, to the West, following millions of tenacious, hardworking, enterprising, intelligent people. For the millions of those who hoped and even fought, but were tired. Who chose his mill over quixoticism. Who sent money here, and now took the children and set sail, leaving behind the old people and the parting phrase: “There is only one life and it goes in one direction.”

I want to leave the failed Independence. Because, looking back, I can’t help but think that the political class used the independent Ukrainian state for only one purpose - to steal. We lost territories, shrunk in demographics, almost finished off medicine, education and industry, and destroyed science. But we shone in the Forbes ratings. But even this time has passed, because we have lost territories, shrunk in demographics, almost finished off medicine, education and industry, and destroyed science.

For twenty-six years, only a few have understood that “menschovartist” [inferiority] is not only in relation to Russia, but also to the West. The authorities have never learned to say a firm “yes” and a firm “no” when it comes to national interests. She is ready to exchange these interests on any market, as long as she is not prevented from enriching herself.

I want to leave the president born under the sign of “Greedy Libra.” From a president who does not set development trends and does not make strategic decisions. Not accepting, due to weighing the pennies from stopping at one option or another.

I want to get away from the oligarchs who shed crocodile tears over the low capitalization of their business in an uncivilized country and invariably during elections finance the winners of the casting of scoundrels. I just want to get away from the stupidity.

I am afraid of voters stealing my five-year plan for a normal life and exchanging theirs for 200 hryvnia. I want to escape from city residents who are ready to “entrust the key to their apartment” to a seasoned swindler with ten years in prison and constant mourning under his nails. And from rural voters who were ready to vote for a man who, at the dawn of the nineties, racketeered not with a pitchfork, but with a journalist’s ID for pharmacists who sold drugs.

I saw how some of the volunteers sold out and made money. But I want to leave so as not to see how the remaining honest ones will finally go crazy from other people’s grief, blood, pain and tears.

I don’t want to see how raiders and racketeers, having acquired an ideology, stripes and huddled in corps and security agencies, gut companies, banks and citizens they don’t like with impunity. The authorities did not explain to them that patriotism is not about taking, but about giving,” the journalist describes the situation in the country.

However, she goes on to say that she will still remain in the country because she believes in its future..

“Because it is darkest before the dawn. And I know that it will begin in this decade. Don't ask where. I just know that’s all,” writes Mostovaya, pathetically summarizing that let her heart “break here.”