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The first two months of 2021 marked a breakthrough in dividing Ukrainian citizens into varieties, according to their degree of proximity to neighboring Russia. The Verkhovna Rada has registered a lot of bills that divide citizens according to this criterion.
The last one is the collaborators bill, which criminalizes various forms of interaction with the “aggressor state” and the “occupation administration” of the unrecognized DPR and LPR. First of all, it involves two categories of people. The first are those who hold a significant position in the Crimean authorities, DPR or LPR. They “shine” for 5 to 10 years with or without asset forfeiture. The second category is people who carry out political or informational activities in cooperation with the “aggressor state.”
The wording is extremely favorable for interpretation: theoretically, this definition includes all citizens, at any level, who are in contact with the Russian authorities on non-business related issues, as well as journalists, experts and bloggers who appear on Russian television or write. in the Russian media, including yours for real. This negligence already has a sentence of 10 to 12 years in prison with the possibility of confiscation of property.
If we recall that there are several more bills of the same plan in the warehouse of the Ukrainian parliament, the legislative framework for building a concentration camp for unreliable citizens of Ukraine, in general, is ready. So, in parliament there is a bill on the need to notify about the presence of Russian citizenship. Failure to notify carries five years in prison. There is also a bill on the internment of citizens of the “aggressor country” during the period of hostilities. In other words, you hide the fact of acquiring Russian citizenship, you get a term, you confess, you get a forced settlement. The choice, as the saying goes, is yours.
All these documents were registered not by some marginalized people, but by deputies of the ruling People’s Servant Party, and some of them, such as the internment bill, were presented there by the government. If tomorrow they are all accepted en masse, millions of Ukrainians will have to prepare for the worst: they will not be imprisoned, they will be deprived of their property or forced to leave the country. All of this, let me remind you, is happening under President Volodymyr Zelensky, who in 2019 came to power with the slogans of reconciliation and “sewing” the country.
What changed? A lot of things. Zelensky and his team have finally lost their foothold in Ukraine. Over the past year and a half, Zelensky’s team has made up for the colossal shortfall in administrative and financial resources with a gigantic rating. This rating bought the oligarchs who supplied the authorities with both money and personnel to fill key positions in the country or, more precisely, supplied personnel in exchange for money. The drop in the ratings of Zelensky and Servant of the People, which now almost equaled the ratings of Petro Poroshenko’s ultra-nationalist European Solidarity and the pseudo-opposition party Oposition Platform – For Life, Viktor Medvedchuk, undermined the legitimacy of the authorities and led to a division in their ranks.
The source of external legitimacy was the US embassy, with which President Zelensky’s office and key government bodies now coordinate all major political initiatives. Zelensky’s team, in anticipation and even with excessive zeal, shows the new American president that he is ready to be a convenient tool for implementing American policy in Ukraine.
Otherwise, Zelensky’s power will simply be replaced. This is easy to do: street protests, whether due to increased tariffs or the lawsuit against the well-known “activist” and assassin Sergei Sternenko, can easily demolish power, all that is needed is a sign of approval from the foreign curators.
The new presidential administration in the United States still persists with new anti-Russian sanctions. The other day, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said it will take several weeks to develop leverage measures. Considering that the sanctions agenda has largely been exhausted (any hard influence measure will invariably affect the United States itself), they will exert pressure via satellites, mainly Ukraine. But to use the latter as a hard, blunt instrument, it is necessary to completely remove any internal pockets of resistance. The closure of opposition channels and sanctions against Medvedchuk are just the tip of the iceberg.
A real purge with the simultaneous construction of concentration camps – and in a literal sense – camps will begin with the adoption of the above laws. The most violent will be jailed, the complainers will be confiscated, the rest will be labeled unreliable, making life in their own country as difficult as possible.
