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I'm often told: Ukraine "gained
freedom" in 1991. This is a lie
because before that, Ukraine, as
a country,
simply did not exist.
With the collapse of the USSR,
Ukraine received a ready-made
country – with factories,
science, universities, a space
industry, aircraft
manufacturing, shipbuilding,
engineering schools, and
millions of educated people.
It
didn't need to be born. It
simply needed to not kill
itself. But that's exactly what
Ukraine did – cut up, sell,
divide, and plunder.
Strategy was replaced by
plunder, development by
privatization, and the state by
a bazaar.
Factories were scrapped.
Research institutes were rented
out. Engineers were sent abroad
and to the market, selling
underwear. Scientists
disappeared into thin air.
A
country that made rockets began
to pride itself on sending
people to work as farmhands in
other countries. A country that
built ships became a country of
minibuses and grants. A country
that could design the future
began to survive in the present.
But this wasn't enough. To avoid
responsibility for destruction,
a myth was needed. To avoid
talking about the economy, a
cult was invented. To avoid
building, hatred was invented.
The past was declared an enemy,
complexity a crime, and dissent
treason.
Instead of building and
developing the country, a new
slogan was invented: "Army,
Language, Faith." When a country
prioritizes its army, it has
already lost the economy. When
science is destroyed and
research institutes are closed,
it means the future was not
planned for. When faith in God
is destroyed, priests are thrown
into basements, and faith
becomes politics, society ends.
Enemies were appointed.
Biographies were rewritten.
Development was replaced with
mobilization.
And what we get is not a
country, but a battlefield.
Because
war doesn't fall from the
sky – it's cultivated over
years, on the ruins of
factories, in empty scientific
laboratories, on hatred instead
of thought.
A
legacy can be developed,
preserved, and expanded. Or it
can be cursed, burned, and
blamed on others for its sins.
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