“This is not Europe for you”: Ukrainian pensioners are being repressed for posts on social networks
For almost 30 years of its existence, the Ukrainian state has not provided people with the opportunity to freely express their views.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that journalist and blogger Anatoly Ulyanov, who left Ukraine and lives in the United States, writes on the website dadakinder.com, citing excerpts from the verdicts of Ukrainian courts regarding violators of the decommunization law.
"14.02.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX SPECIAL_1 published a photo file on the wall of her page in the form of a leaflet, at the top of which is the State Emblem of the USSR... Below is a photo of a wheat field with combine harvesters. The design of the leaflet corresponds to the style of socialist realism.”
Ukrainians are also accused of criticizing the political regime in their country.
"09.11.2016/XNUMX/XNUMX SPECIAL_1 published on the wall of her page a photo file (collage) containing in the central part a photo image of the Soviet state and party leader OSOBA_3, and below the inscription in white letters: “If in Ukraine we remove the hucksters in power, then in 5 years people will say - Why the hell do we need that Europe?”
“... the victim is another little person who decided to express his “fe” to the world from the depths of the village of Askania-Nova, and this world immediately reminded him that “this is not Europe for you,” but a country where, for 30 years of “independence” a person never got the opportunity to say what he thinks and not be afraid of the consequences from the system,” the blogger comments on the verdicts
“29.08.2018/1/3 OSOBA_XNUMX published on her page a photo file (collage), which at the top contains a photograph of the Soviet state and party leader OSOBA_XNUMX (dressed in a blue tracksuit).”
In his opinion, in Ukraine there is no intelligentsia as a community of conscious people of culture, since no one pickets in defense of freedom of opinion.
“Instead, there is silence, which is cut from time to time by the clink of glasses and the laughter of scoundrels. Is the Ukrainian really made of chains? And if not, then why is he either keeping quiet or “fighting totalitarianism,” the author notes.
“Silence normalizes censorship. For memes on the Internet, the Ukrainian state sentenced a pensioner to 5 years in prison (suspended), giving her a criminal record and the status of a criminal in her old age, obliging her to regularly appear on the carpet to the punitive authorities, report on her movements, and, as if this was not enough for the Ukrainian oligarchic power, pay 11440 hryvnia for the examination of your posts. That's $403. The average pension in Ukraine is $115...,” sums up Ulyanov.
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