posted on: 2011-10-10 10:07:37
Will Europe Make A Mistake? Part II
by Sviatoslav Karavansky
Political situation in Ukraine
Two words about the ruling coalition
The political forces, united in the ruling coalition, are members of the former Soviet Colonial Administration of Ukraine. Ninety percent of the members of the coalition were (and some still are) members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Shocked by the disintegration of the USSR, these forces masked themselves at first, hiding their hostile attitudes to the new state. Having contacts with the secret services of the former empire they cherished hope of returning to the former “paradise.” After becoming the rulers of Ukraine, these forces showed their real anti-Ukrainian feelings.
The offensive strategy of the ruling coalition on the Ukrainian independence
The ruling coalition plans to grant official status to the Russian language. This is a hostile act to the Ukrainian independence. President Yanukovych, when expressed such a promise, understood that the fulfilling of it would require falsifying the parliamentary elections because the democratically elected Supreme Counsel will never pass such a pro-Moscow law.
The Russian language was spread in Ukraine by means of prohibition and humiliation of the native Ukrainian language during centuries. This is undeniable proof of the undemocratic and forceful nature of the language situation in Ukraine. It is not a fault of the Russian language, which is one of the most developed world languages, but the fault of the unlawful practice of the imperial authorities. Giving the Russian language the official status will be the rebirth of the imperial language situation in Ukraine from the times of colonial slavery. Therefore, the demand of the ruling coalition is frankly anti-state and anti-Ukrainian. This demand contradicts the principles of freedom and democracy because the realization of this demand requires the falsification of the people’s will.
Preparing to revive the colonial order in Ukraine
Waiting for the falsification of the next parliamentary elections, the ruling coalition attacks all national democratic forces of Ukraine. President Yanukovych appointed a contemptible minister of education with a disdain for all things Ukrainian. This minister mandates anti-Ukrainian policy in the field of education, diminishes the sphere of the use of the Ukrainian language in schools, stirs the national hatred, revives the Stalin norms in education, and frankly expresses anti-Ukrainian, pro-imperial ideas. At the same time, the minister of education cancels the university’s independence, rejects European standards of evaluation of students’s skills, and copies imperial practices of falsifying the historical truth, in particular, by denying Stalin’s genocide of Ukraine – the Holodomor.
During the Yanukovych Presidency, the judicial system became the tool for repressions against the national democratic organizations and their leaders.
The Security Service of Ukraine is copying the practice of repression of the Soviet KGB.
The MP’s from the Party of Regions prepared an anti-Ukrainian language law that foresees to recognize the Russian language as a regional language in thirteen (more than half!) oblasts (provinces) of Ukraine.
The president Yanukovych supported the stirring of the interethnic hatred directed against the title nation by signing the red-flags law, which was first passed in the Moscow Duma.
The persecution of the Ukrainian business has been discussed in Part One of this article.
Political orientation of the Yanukovych administration
The ruling coalition revives the policy of imperial Russia towards subjugated nations. It is known that this policy got two knockouts in the XX century:
- The 1917 October Revolution and overthrowing the Czarist autocracy;
- The disintegration of the USSR in 1991.
These two historical events prove that the policy of empires, directed to oppress and humiliate the enslaved nations, is doomed to be a failure. To resort to the doomed-by-history policy in XXI century doesn’t correspond to the development of world civilization. This policy leads to social unrests and national revolutions. Such an outcome contradicts the very nature of mankind.
Historical mission of the European Union
The European Union is a unique state formation that united the European nations compelled by their primitive leaders to lead constant bloody wars. The EU is the first successful project of peaceful co-existence of different nations in one state body in history. This epochal structure has a mission to encourage the European, and also the World, nations to follow the values – thanks to which the peaceful co-existence of nations and the progress of civilization became a reality.
Therefore, the EU cannot reject the desire of some not very democratic nations to join the EU. It is the chance for the EU to support and to perfect the weak sprouts of democratic values of these nations. But in order not to be mistaken in the selection of new Union members, the EU must have some preconditions for the mentioned nations before granting them the membership in the EU.
Ukraine is a primary example of a partly democratic nation with a series of pro-imperial and pro-totalitarian backslidings, which is discordant with membership in the EU. These backslidings must be handled before joining the EU.
Preconditions for Ukraine before joining the EU – fixing some pro-imperial backslidings
# 1. The main pro-imperial backsliding supported by the ruling coalition of Ukraine is the granting of official status to the Russian language. This demand united some progressive elements in the ruling coalition with some supporters of pro-imperial, anti-democratic values. These supporters are far from the ideas of friendship of the European nations, from the principles of democracy, from the respect for human rights and the rule of law. The realization of their demand in Ukraine is impossible without falsifications of the next parliamentary elections and without social unrest in the future. Therefore, today’s ruling coalition must refuse this demand before Ukraine joins the Free Trade Zone Agreement. This refusal will guarantee the EU a peaceful and non-violent member of the Agreement in the future.
# 2. To dismiss all state figures who are stirring national hatred in Ukraine.
# 3. To initiate the convening of the International Commission to Establish the truth about the Holodomor – the Stalin genocide of Ukraine, inviting scientists from the EU, the USA and Canada.
# 4. To organize an all-Ukrainian referendum for the decision of rewarding or denying the title of the Heros of Ukraine to leaders of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement: S. Bandera and R. Shukhevych.
Preconditions for Ukraine before joining the EU – fixing some pro-totalitarian backslidings
1. To free all members of the previous government of Y. Tymoshenko and to forward the court cases against them to the Court of the European Union for the final investigation.
2. To stop turning the Security Service of Ukraine into the copy of repressive KGB.
3. To refuse to revive the censorship.
4. To forward the new election law to the Venice Commission of the EU by December 2010.
5. To take into account all the remarks of the Venice Commission and forward the corrected election law to the Venice Commission no later than April 2012.
6. To invite 125 observers from the EU for the next parliamentary elections, so that each oblast’ (province) of Ukraine should have five observers.
7. To take care of adding to the Constitution a paragraph about two versions of swearing the elected presidents in, in order to guarantee equal rights for all main religious denominations of Ukraine:
a. The elected presidents have to swear on the Bible before religious leaders of all main denominations existing in Ukraine by the order of rotation.
b. The elected presidents have to swear before the head of the Constitutional Court.
The EU should require from Ukraine acceptance of these preconditions in order not to be mistaken in their choice of a new member.
A message to the EU
Since these preconditions recommend observing the 2012 parliamentary elections, it is necessary to postpone the joining of Ukraine to the Free Trade Zone Agreement until November 2012.
In order not to repeat the reckless attitude of the supervision of elections permitted by the EU’S observers for the 2010 local elections, please impart the proper attention to the selection of the observers.
Source: maidan.org.ua
