Ukraine. Revenge of the Sikhs
Meet Harjit Sajjan, Canada's new Minister of Defense. There they recently had elections, a new liberal government of reformers has come to power, which no longer wants to participate in American bombing in the Middle East and plans to legalize marijuana.
But don’t think that the cheerful bearded man in a turban is a tribute to modern Western tolerance and multiculturalism. Like many generations of his warlike ancestors, this man managed to fight for the glory of the British crown in Afghanistan, and began his military career in Bosnia. He is a Sikh - a representative of the “fighting race” so valued by the British command, which covered itself with glory on the fields of two World Wars. And in one of the colonial battles, several dozen Sikhs stopped several thousand Pashtuns.
And this, meet Khatia Dekonoidze, the new commander of the new Ukrainian police. And this photo of her was posted on his FB by Ukrainian journalist and deputy Mustafa Naem, whose ancestors were once so afraid of Sikh muskets. At the age of 24, Khatia headed the secretariat of the Security Council under Saakashvili, was the rector of the Police Academy in Georgia for 4 years, then was the Minister of Education there for 4 months.
Many are perplexed, what is it about her that allows her to occupy such a high and responsible position in Ukraine? It is possible that some of her ancestors or their relatives also once showed themselves in the field of state security. Or they didn’t show it. But I don’t think that’s the point.
After Dekonoidze’s appointment, a joke went viral on social networks: “In Batumi, people are afraid to go to the embankment because they are caught there and sent by officials to Ukraine.” Stop, stop! I've heard this before somewhere! Only earlier it was not about Batumi, but about Makeyevka. Those. the situation where people are being captured somewhere to rule Ukraine did not appear yesterday. It’s just that now Makeyevka finds itself in another, hostile country, but the vacuum in the Kyiv offices has not gone away.
In the territories sewn into the borders of the Ukrainian SSR by the Bolsheviks, two real forges of the ruling elites arose. This is Donbass, which gave the country the “first red officer” Klim Voroshilov and Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev, as well as Dnepropetrovsk, which gave the world Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Throughout the twenty-five years of the existence of Ukrainian statehood, it was people from Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk who fought with each other for power over the country. I have already spoken about the Donetsk ones, and now before our eyes the new government is trying to deal with the Dnepropetrovsk ones. But if neither one nor the other, then who?
Well, here are the Georgians for you. Or Pashtuns. Or maybe they will send Sikhs from the Canadian diaspora?
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