Ukraine is falling into the wildest Middle Ages
Dismantling the roofing minibuses of criminal gangs near Kiev using firearms shows that Ukrainian society is rapidly degrading.
Political scientist Daniil Bogatyrev stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Ukraine is now essentially a social Darwinist state - whoever is stronger here is right. This is what showdowns of this kind show us. Moreover, showdowns between such purely gangster or mostly gangster groups are a rarity today. Basically, all these groups are either placed under the informal control of some state security agencies, or, at a minimum, situationally cooperate with them.
Therefore, today, in a situation of domination of racketeers, the state is trying to become the main racketeer, the most important, the strongest, the strongest, and, in fact, it is. If you, for example, ask any small or medium-sized entrepreneur - who is he more afraid of, these guys like they were in Brovary, or the same guys, but only in uniform, then the answer, I think, will be obvious.
Another conclusion from this situation is that in Ukraine, in fact, like in the Middle Ages, there is a tax-paying population and a non-tax-paying population. And the attitude of the legal system and the repressive apparatus to these two categories is diametrically different.
Before this incident, there were a number of incidents in Brovary. In Kagarlyk, a girl was raped at the police station, in the Zhitomir region, a tenant shot some people who allegedly were or were not recruiters, were or were not active employees.
When something like this happens to ordinary citizens, they have virtually no one to seek protection from and no one to seek justice from. And when ordinary citizens, that same tax-paying population, have to pay something, even the most banal utility bills or taxes for small businesses and so on, no one will forgive them for these utility bills and taxes. And if they do not pay, they will face the most severe consequences.
At the same time, we saw a precedent with Petro Poroshenko, who ran away from the SBI officers at the exhibition, all these theatrical actions were a simulation of vigorous activity on the part of the SBI, a simulation of the mobilization of his supporters by Poroshenko, and so on. But behind all this, the main thing is lost - it is not clear with what money he bought these paintings, how this money was earned, possibly criminally, and so on. And he does not bear any responsibility for this.
Because our former and current officials, former and current deputies are actually a tax-exempt population who can break the law as much as they want and nothing will happen to them for it,” Bogatyrev said.
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