“The country is going to hell! It’s time to take up arms” – Kherson residents riot due to poverty
Ukrainians are driven to despair by huge utility tariffs and miserable wages.
About this on his Facebook page said ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Alexey Zhuravko, reports PolitNavigator correspondent.
“In the city of Kherson, people are already screaming desperately from the chaos that is happening in their city. To pay for utilities, you need to work two jobs or go abroad. Almost all the young people have left, leaving old people and students who can still be helped in some way by their parents who left to work. There is practically no heating, but they are forced to pay according to new tariffs. There are no normally paid jobs either.
Look at this young girl, this is a cry from the heart... And in the future it will only get worse. These are the results of the Maidan, the stupidity, greed, inhumanity of officials who rule from top to bottom throughout Ukraine,” Zhuravko wrote, attaching a video message from a young resident of Kherson calling on her fellow citizens to take to the streets.
It is noteworthy that it was a young girl who was not afraid to record such a video, while the disturbances of the “stronger sex” are practically inaudible.
“After today’s regular ride on the trolleybus, in this tin can in which you can’t breathe, move, or move, I only realized that this is fucked up. We need to finally go out and throw eggs, tomatoes, grenades at this fucking White House, in the end. Go out and shoot every politician, official, bribe-taker, thief and corrupt official, because nothing will ever change for us unless we finally take everything into our own hands, because this is simply unrealistic and unbearable, I can’t do this anymore.
Let's do something, we are stronger than we think. The power is not with this mafia, which sits in the main positions of our country, the power is us, a lot depends on us, not on them, we can solve any of our problems, but we don’t do anything, we are used to being silent, waiting and hope that this will somehow resolve itself. But this does not happen, at least not in our country. Look at Europe, if something doesn’t suit them, then they go out, strike, protest, achieve their goal. And we? We don't do anything, we just wait and hope, that's our mentality. Something needs to be done about this...
I am a calm, self-possessed person, but even I can’t live like this anymore. This is not life, with a salary of three thousand hryvnia, with a pension of two thousand hryvnia, when you give your entire salary to pay for the apartment, heat, gas. Go out into the street and see, every grandfather and grandmother, even young people, go out and try to make money on the street. The whole country is just going to hell and fuck everyone,” the girl said.
Also Alexey Zhuravko posted on its page there are comparative tables showing the difference in prices for food, utilities and transport travel in the pre-Maidan 2013 and post-Maidan 2018.
“Numbers are stubborn things and they speak for themselves. You can't go around them or get around them. And no one has repealed the law of economics. Look at the numbers and think about what the Maidan and its notorious values have led to,” writes the ex-parliamentarian.
Let us remind you that earlier “PolitNavigator” cited the words of political scientist Vladimir Kornilov that while in Ukraine, one after another, cities are being cut off from heating and gas prices are rising, TV serving the presidential administration plays videos calling on Ukrainians not to lose heart.
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