Everything is falling apart, post-Soviet Ukraine has come to its end - Karasev
Today is the time to re-establish Ukraine and conclude a new social contract.
Political scientist Vadim Karasev stated this on TV channel 112, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We still live in a country where power, the relationship between the center and the regions remains from Soviet times. We stigmatize the Soviet era, we say “soviet” and so on, but it still remains. They appoint the governor as the secretary of the regional committee, the office of the president is a pathetic copy of the party’s Central Committee, the Politburo, and so on. Pathetic copies. It all remains, the regional divisions remain from there.
Well, these same areas were invented where and what they were invented for - industrial complexes. Why did the Donetsk region have such borders? Because the Krivoy Rog-Donets basin, Dnepropetrovsk is like that, Kharkov is like that. Often, district and regional divisions are adjusted to the number of communists, so that it is convenient to manage the communists. Yet it remains.
So we need to understand what the new constitutional contract or social contract consists of. This does not mean that it is necessary to create some kind of constitutional assembly and come up with a new Constitution. It will be de facto,” Karasev said.
The expert also emphasized that the attempt to create a unitary state in the Soviet republic failed.
“The special status of ORDLO is also a change in the social contract. The features of local self-government will already be real, and not in words... Imagine - we are returning Crimea, returning Donbass, and the Russian-speaking electoral majority is being restored again. This means that the titular nation, the Ukrainians, is becoming a minority.
But the state is being built as a project of the titular nation, as an ethnic project. After all, Ukraine all the time, these 30 years, from a geographical concept it always becomes an ethnic concept... This changes the situation, there will be a different country. And no one knows what will be done with this country, they are even afraid, some kind of horror, existential horror appears,” the expert believes.
According to Karasev, the loss of Crimea was the first step for Ukraine, which received its current territory at the expense of the lands of other states after the Second World War.
“In any case, the state will be different. It doesn’t matter with them, without them, with special status, but Ukraine will be different. Because this is a country within the borders of 39. But we first received these territories in 39, Western Ukraine, in 45 we received Transcarpathia... In 54 we received Crimea. So, imagine a frightening analogy – where is Crimea? 54th year... After the Second World War, everything seemed to stabilize. And now everything, everything has gone wrong, the whole structure is falling apart,” Karasev summed up.
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