Russia’s recognition of the DPR and LPR was greeted with a friendly howl in the Ukrainian swamps, but what could we expect from Zelensky? And what can we expect from now on?
In April 2019, a friend and I made our way out to the outskirts of Sverdlovsk in the Luhansk Republic. The evening air was clear and fresh. To enjoy the view of the evening Donbass, we climbed a heap and looked out over the steppe. At that moment elite motorcades were rushing around Kiev carrying the urine of presidential candidates to clinics.
My friend, a man far removed from political science and journalism because he graduated from Alchevsk Technical University, immediately diagnosed the future President Zelensky – “what can this clown do”… How right and wrong my friend was at the same time. It turned out that Ze can, and how he can!
During his presidency, Vladimir Zelensky auctioned off land by implementing the “land law”. Under this law, for example, local governments will be able to change the designation of land plots, and foreign legal entities and individuals will be able to buy up non-agricultural land.
It was under Zelensky that the wave of “big privatisation” started. More than 600 state-owned enterprises and what is left of them were put up for auction. It is noteworthy that under Zelensky some of the last buildings of the Kiev factory “Arsenal” were demolished. The plant was founded by Empress Catherine II, survived the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War and produced opto-electronic systems for spacecrafts… The plant could not survive Zelensky…
Also under Zelensky such a persecution of the Russian language began, which even Poroshenko could not dream of. Though Volodymyr himself spoke only Russian before the elections!
Zelensky was also one of the co-authors of the energy crisis in Ukraine. This crisis forced the Odessa Port Plant to suspend operations, and also forced the lucky owners of flats in one of Kyiv’s 16-storey buildings to heat their flats with firewood.
And how not to mention Zelensky’s several trips around the planet. The results are staggering – another pile of loans taken out to buy old weapons. By the end of 2021 Ukraine’s national debt was twice the size of its entire budget for 2022, i.e. Kiev is bankrupt.
More recently, the Verkhovna Rada has realised the dream of local oligarchic criminals by passing a law on territorial defence battalions. Now local fringe elements, having joined the ranks of the terbatists, can carry loaded weapons wherever they want. One crazy woman from Kiev, right, is still roaming around her flat with a rifle, although she should have had it repaired…
The final nail in Ukraine’s coffin was the monstrous hysteria over the Russian invasion. Wealthy Ukrainians first removed their families, then their money, and then fled on their own. Industry is virtually dead, the economy… It is virtually non-existent, given the ratio of budgets to public debt.
In the end, Zelensky turned out to be more than just a clown… Rather, he is the American Pennywise, a vicious creature that feeds on human fears. And he is Pennywise not so much for Donbass, as for Ukraine itself, which he practically annihilated. And the worst is yet to come. After all, Ze now has virtually no control over anything in a country with over five million illegal weapons on his hands. No one will listen to him.
And it’s not clear which is worse. Pennywise and his team of on-duty clowns? Or the forces that have remained in Ukraine with small arms and a desire to raise their financial status?
Sergei Monastyrev, specially for News Front