Monday, December 2, 2013

Ukrainian integration to EU, or a story of one revolution.



Our mass media are reporting every single day the news of Ukrainian integration to EU. Honestly, this news is a bit tiresome now. I understand that the most important top-information should be one and only, but an amount of such materials that are given by our information agencies, newspapers, magazines and so on is enormous! And the causes of this tendency are quite easy to realize.

The thing is that we have just made a decision of not entering EU. This question has stayed opened for some time and finally our president has told his verdict and so our government had made this decision. And now they are suffering from it. People are becoming crazy; they are ready to do a real revolution and the consequences of this action don’t bother them – brave and desperate. I have a feeling that they have received a right of voice in the end. And now they are not standing for a great idea – they are standing for a show, a performance! I guess that a percentage of people who are really adherents of our integration to EU is small, unfortunately small. I can understand them, they have a big desire to enter the better world, and it is a good intention. So I suppose that their purpose is to show our government that they have their personal opinion that can take place in independent democratic nation. But this step is spoiled by another part of people. Thus this is a category of people who are visiting Euromaidan because somebody promises to pay them money. And some of them even want to have fun there – this fact is absolutely ridiculous! And the most incredible thing is that no one from 1,6 million people can recognize our main problem: we cannot be as Europeans because our country is not well-prepared for this big change. We are ‘too young’ for it. The level of life, law, government, rights of citizens – everything is different. 

I remember my first ‘international experience’. When I was 6 years old, my parents and I were travelling to Poland by car. The memories of that trip is still alive and my child’s impressions are so big that I still remember my amazement when I saw a lot of clean streets and tidy houses, green lawns, beautiful parks with safe benches, smooth roads – everything seemed to be dolls’ and perfect. And I felt this difference between our towns and cities and their ones. The difference was unbelievable! And even now, when 13 years passed, almost everything stays the same. Surprisingly to be.

And now we even have a worse situation – we have a big disorder that has appeared suddenly and we cannot see a solution! The vision of it should be objective and real, but due to the fact that people are dreaming about Europe, they begin to organize these strikes and riots – they don’t like a decision of our president and they don’t want to listen to anybody. I am not telling that the decision is right or wrong and these people behave good or bad; we are talking about another thing.

We have a massive attack in Kyiv and nobody can stop it! Moral and law are weak because they have to deal with society – with a big crowd that is mad and that is prepared for anything, for any other action! Nobody could imagine that we would have such a reaction. And so now nobody can predict what can be done for escaping this big political and social problem. This is like a tragedy. But the reality is so: we are not ready to live the same as in Europe and it is true. The government cannot decide what to do with Euromaidan’s actions and so because of their despair they resort to extreme measures.

 It is a vicious circle for now: no solution, no justice, no understanding. People want to have a new better level of life even having these problems now. Sounds illogical. Ukrainian citizens know that we have a plenty of problems, not only this story with euro integration. And they also know that our economic and political states have problems too. So what can we do? Probably we need to wait for the better times, who knows. Time will put everything on its place.

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