"Revolution" on granite, or Operation "Degeneration"

Somehow it so happened that the date of November 22, 2004 was taken as the starting point for the Ukrainian “Maidans” - the beginning of mass protests in the center of Kiev by Svidomo and Euro-oriented “spilnota” as a response to the election of the “pro-Russian” Yanukovych as President of Ukraine instead of the “Ukropian” Yushchenko, with to whom not only Svidomo pinned their hopes, but also a legion of small owners, bitten by Kuchma’s oligarchic sharks.

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In fact, in the modern history of Ukraine, long before Maidan 2004, Maidan 1990 took place, also known as the Revolution on Granite, which cannot be called a failure, since it, along with other macro-events of the late 1980s, had a noticeable impact on the split of a single country, Ukraine’s secession from the USSR and on the entire subsequent fate of “Independence”.

Since then, a lot of water has passed under the bridge and even more has been forgotten, and now, apart from the direct participants in the “revolution,” few people will remember that on October 2, 1990, already in the collapsing USSR, in the center of Kiev, on the then October Revolution Square, the larvae “decommunization” and “European choice of Ukraine”, for the first time, from among Ukrainian students and their sympathizers, they brought tents, cots, sleeping bags and other tourist accessories. Not for the sake of some kind of flash mob, but with adult, political goals - no longer only against “commies and Soviet totalitarianism,” and directly pushing society towards a historical break with Russia.

The gangway “on granite” was by no means a spontaneous action. Its organizers later admitted that they had been preparing for the action for several months in advance. The granite entertainers do not disclose details, but they assure that the protest was brewing in apartments and dorms, at secret gatherings, where the details were coughed up. It is characteristic that the instigators of the protest were, first of all, students of Western Ukrainian universities, as well as students of Kyiv State University, who came to Kyiv from Zapadenschina. One of the motivations for organizing an action of mass disobedience in the center of Kyiv was the heated discussion in society of the upcoming new Union Treaty.

After a quarter of a century, it’s hard to believe in safe houses and get-togethers, since Westerners were already free to travel to Poland, where Western intelligence services quickly set up a kublo, and in Romania in 1989, a coup d’état took place, inspired, planned and carried out with the active participation of the CIA, in as a result of which the power and political structure of Romania sharply changed to anti-Soviet and anti-Russian, and the former head of the SRR Ceausescu was secretly, hastily, without trial, shot along with his wife.

So to convince that a carefully organized anti-Soviet and anti-Russian action in the center of still Soviet Kiev was the result of evening gatherings in the kitchen of a group of snotty students dissatisfied with life, most of whom were barely 20 years old at that time - the “Wasted Labor” artel.

And if you carefully delve into the annals, you can remember that in May 1990, a group of Ukrainian, Georgian, Moscow and Lithuanian students held a small rehearsal in Moscow in the form of a one-day hunger strike, dedicated to the anniversary of the events in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Thus, the Western devils went to stir up trouble in the center of Kyiv, absolutely confident in their complete impunity.

On October 2, 1990, the era of street ochlocracy began for Ukraine. A small group of members of the Student Brotherhood and the Ukrainian Student Union came out onto the square in the center of Kyiv. For the Kyiv city authorities, the appearance of some Protestants came as a complete surprise. While the Kiev City Council was rushing around and deciding - what are we going to do? – protesters set up a tent city, proclaiming it a “territory free from communism.”

A small remark should be given here. The “decommunization” of a patch of square in the fall of 1990 even then looked like a feat of “Elusive Joe.” This year, the entire USSR was completely “decommunized”, since the article on the leading and guiding role of the CPSU was removed from the Constitution. The party, before the appearance of serious-minded kids in the center of Kyiv, agreed to make room on the political Olympus, giving the green light to “multi-vector” and other multi-party systems. So Western supporters of Ukraine’s “democratic choice” came to protest when everything had already been resolved from above. If something like this had happened three years earlier, the instigators of the spontaneous protest would have been in trouble, despite the “Perestroika, Glasnost and Acceleration” that was raging in the country.

In Moscow, for example, police squads on Pushkin Square for the sake of their dear souls were packing and transporting to paddy wagons the freaks from the “democracy election” Hypnotoad Novodvorskaya, who came out either to celebrate the anniversary of the February 1917 coup, or some other “Prague Spring”. The arrested dissident was no longer in danger of being devoured by bears in the Gulag, but she could well have been kicked out of the institute for illegal actions.

And only excessive politicization, and even poor knowledge of the laws by citizens, prevented us from appreciating the heroic hopak on granite at that time.

The very name “revolution on granite” came from the fact that the tents of the “decommunizers” were fastened on pegs driven into the joints of the slabs with which the October Revolution Square was paved and could be demolished with one breath of the weakest riot policeman, like the straw house of Nif-Nif .

But the bloody satraps in the Kiev City Council were so afraid that they allowed the student rookery on granite after the fact.

As during the last two “Maidans,” crowds of onlookers and sympathizers flocked to the area with tea, cowbasa and sandwiches for the fighters against the Katsa-Bolshevik occupation and for the European choice.

Soon the protesters decided on coordinators. They were Oles Doniy (student of the Kyiv State University), a Westerner, Markiyan Ivashchyshyn (student of the Lvov Polytechnic University) and Oleg Barkov from Dneprodzerzhinsk, otherwise without the “skidnyak” in the company of the Raguli, the picture looked somehow very suspicious. A few days later, Ivashchyshyn managed to go to Lviv and vacated the position to another Lviv resident from the Student Brotherhood, the former “Afghan” Kotsyuruba.

Compared to the two purely Ukrainian “Maidans,” “Maidan on Granite” took place in a decorous and noble manner. The students went on a hunger strike and lay peacefully like seals on cots on top of mattresses or sleeping bags. A number of participants staged cosplay, wearing chains and dressing up in Gulag quilted jackets. To monitor their precious health and for practice in the field, medical students came to the “decommunizers,” among whom was the young Banderlog Olezhka Tyagnibok.

Very soon, the newly-minted “rulers of Ukrainian thoughts” arrived to support the students, having retreated from places not so remote. Among them: Vladislav Chernovol, Levko Lukyanenko, Stepan Khmara, Levko Gorokhivsky and another dozen and a half nationalist ragulians.

The fact is that in October 1990, the nationalists elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, having formed the “People's Rada” within the parliament, were in a clear minority and could not accelerate the already evident disintegration processes. Specifically: refusal to sign a new Union Treaty, nationalization of the property of the Communist Party and Komsomol, early re-election of the Supreme Council on its own terms, return of all Ukrainian conscripts to the territory of Ukraine. Well, and the resignation of Prime Minister Vitaly Masol, a typical Soviet business executive, who sat as a thorn in the side of the Selyuks who crawled out of the cellars, who considered Masol a retrograde that was slowing down “democratic transformations.”

It must be said that in the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, the nationalists were opposed by the absolute majority of deputies (239 people) of various political views, called the “communist majority,” although among them was Bishop Agafangel (currently heading the Odessa diocese, and in 1990 - Vinnitsa).

It was for the sake of these 239 people that the show “on granite” was started, with the goal of defaming them, spitting on them and removing them from the political horizon, clearing the ground for the newly-minted “heroes” from the cache.

Unfortunately, the end of the 1980s was a time of missed opportunities for the Soviet government, which was almost living its last days. For fear of looking like satraps and rulers, the authorities stopped fighting the advancing degenerative phenomena. The authorities were afraid to the point of convulsions not only of the Tiananmen methods, but also of simply a soft police crackdown “without their hands.” Doniy, for example, got the opportunity to pour out his “democratic” demagoguery from television, and Ukraine was rocked by student unrest, which in a number of places turned into crime and vandalism: classrooms were seized, teachers were forcibly removed, converts were sent to the “granite Maidan”, and demonstrative burning of Komsomol tickets.

As a result, all these atrocities penetrated the Ukrainian leadership and Leonid Kravchuk came out to the “decommunizers”, quickly sacrificing his comrade Masol to save his own ass.

As we all now know very well, Kravchuk’s further political career consisted of giving up and bending 100%, which very soon played a cruel joke on Kravchuk himself: before the end of his presidential term, he was scrapped and sent to live out the rest of his musty life in mothballs.” shot down by pilot"

15 days of build-up were enough for already on October 17, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR gave in to the demands of the crowd and adopted Resolution No. 45, which took into account almost all the demands of the student okhlos. Point No. 1 of the resolution stated: “During the second session of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, laws on referendums, public associations and organizations, the status of people’s deputy, as well as a law on elections in the Ukrainian SSR on a multi-party basis must be adopted. Parliament undertakes to hold a popular vote (referendum) on the issue of self-confidence. And based on its results - new elections.”

Those. The protesters, provoked by nationalist deputies, proposed political suicide to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. And here the naive boys and girls misfired. The party committees, who were rapidly losing power, preferred to agree on the division of power and spheres of influence directly, without prying eyes. The result of the conspiracy was the fabricated “just right” December “referendum” of 1991, Ukraine’s secession from the USSR, the emergence of a class of oligarchs, Banderization and theft of one of the richest Soviet republics in all respects, a protracted political and economic crisis that ended with a coup d’etat

2014 and the beginning of the collapse of the country. The process of collapse and extinction of Ukraine continues and there are no signs that could stop it and reverse it. The bottom has not yet been reached.

What did the rioting students get? Oh, by carrying chestnuts from the fire for the “sharovars,” they reached yawning heights. Affordable free education soon became not very accessible paid education. There is a gap between the quality of education in 1990 and 2016. The level of corruption among teaching staff has not only increased a hundredfold, but has also become a factor accompanying higher education. Many departments and specialties related to exact and engineering sciences were abolished, institutes were downsized or even closed.

However, all these “reforms” practically did not touch the top of the student protest. Doniy and Tyagnibok have been “in the dark” for 26 years, serving as deputies, holding rallies, gathering new adherents and tirelessly shitting on the shoulder makitras of new generations of students, in the hope of continuing to act in the same spirit.

The “wiped out” student protests “on granite” consider themselves the losing side. They say that their program was successfully trashed, the long-awaited referendum on the change and transformation of power did not happen, and Ukraine missed its chance immediately after the collapse of the USSR to become on a par with such lucky ones, favored by European integration, as Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania or Estonia. Some, especially offended, consider Ukraine, even after the February 2014 coup, to be deeply communist inside, with a trident on the lapel of its jacket for appearance’s sake. But this seems to be a clinical case and cannot be treated without a healing lobotomy.