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- Herausgeber: Олег Балан
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
An account of the Kyiv Maidan, covering the period from November 2013 to February 2014, by Oleg Balan – eyewitness and participant of those events, was addressed to his work partner in Germany. This document today surprisingly answers the question that lost in conjectures civilized world is asking Ukraine about the full-scale war unleashed against her by Russia on February 24, 2022: how could this terrible and yet senseless war happen, what are its real reasons? The answer is surprising, shocking: the whole world is being pushed to the edge of an abyss today by one big grudge of one little man, a grudge against Ukraine that gave him a slap in the face, first in 2004 and then in 2014. This story is written emotionally, it is full of details provided by the attentive observer, and contains little known to a foreign reader facts about Ukraine's history. The author's photographs complement the content. The following material was written in 2014 and is presented without corrections or amendments to the text. This publication is intended for anyone interested in modern history.
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O. Balan
Hello, New Ukraine! or Big Offence of little putin. — K. : Yurka Lyubchenka Publishing House, 2023. — 120 p.
ISBN 978-617-7221-91-2
An account of the Kyiv Maidan, covering the period from November 2013 to February 2014, by Oleg Balan – eyewitness and participant of those events, was addressed to his work partner in Germany. This document today surprisingly answers the question that lost in conjectures civilized world is asking Ukraine about the full-scale war unleashed against her by Russia on February 24, 2022: how could this terrible and yet senseless war happen, what are its real reasons? The answer is surprising, shocking: the whole world is being pushed to the edge of an abyss today by one big grudge of one little man, a grudge against Ukraine that gave him a slap in the face, first in 2004 and then in 2014.
This story is written emotionally, it is full of details provided by the attentive observer, and contains little known to a foreign reader facts about Ukraine’s history. The author’s photographs complement the content. The following material was written in 2014 and is presented without corrections or amendments to the text.
This publication is intended for anyone interested in modern history.
ISBN 978-617-7221-91-2
© O. Balan, 2022
FOREWORD
Since the start of the Russian Federation’s full-scale attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the entire political landscape of the planet Earth has been shifting. The final result of those tectonic shifts is not clear yet. Nevertheless, it is also unclear to many what driving forces have caused them. The causes of some significant events are not always as significant as their consequences. Those causes can be quite trivial.
On February 24, Putin announced to the world the goals of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine on television. They sounded like this in his lips:
“I have decided to conduct a special military operation. Its purpose is to protect people (i.e. residents of the DPR and LPR, which were recognized as independent states by the Russian Federation three days before the attack on Ukraine), who have been subjected to bulling and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years. It has become simply impossible to tolerate all this, it was necessary to stop this nightmare immediately, to end genocide against the millions of people living there, who rely on Russia only”. Putin also declared the “denazification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine as goals of the war.
Commenting on Putin’s voiced reasons for Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the following can be briefly stated:
a) no facts of genocide of the Donbas population have been recorded by either the UN nor by the OSCE. No evidence of genocide by Ukraine was presented by the Russian Federation during hearings of Ukraine’s lawsuit before the International Court of Justice in The Hague in March 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army (simply because one cannot provide evidence of something that has not happened);
b) there are no Nazis in Ukraine, any Ukrainian knows that. Ukrainians are overwhelmingly tolerant of all people, regardless of their national origin;
c) Ukraine, like any sovereign state has its own army. How ever, at the time of Russia’s attack it was incomparably worse armed than the Russian army, incomparably smaller in number, and posed no real military threat to Russia. In addition, unlike the Russian army, the Ukrainian army has no weapons of mass destruction.
We can therefore conclude that the goals of “special military operation in Ukraine” voiced by Putin are farfetched, which means he is hiding the real reasons for Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
The Russian Federation has launched an aggressive widespread anti-Ukrainian propaganda that “educated” its population in a totally mad furious anti – Ukrainianism. By the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine, about 150,000 Russian troops were concentrated on the borders with Ukraine. It is clear that organizing of such propaganda campaign that has been actively started since 2004, and such extensive military preparations required both: time and large financial and material expenses. It is hard to imagine that such expenditures were made for nothing, for no reason. These actions could have been taken only for some reasons which Putin has not actually voiced. Nevertheless, they do exist, so what are they? Why has Putin hidden them?
In September 2022, six months after the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine, Alexander Nevzorov uttered the following phrase in one of his “Nevzorov Wednesdays” programs: “The reason is still unclear. As one knows, the cause of the war has not been established yet and is not known to anyone. And Putin has not managed to come up with a reason for this war in six months’ time”.
The purpose of this publication is to answer this question, to show how the cause of this war has been gradually developing in Putin’s mind. Being a petty and vindictive man who has gained virtually unlimited power over the entire Russian population, he could not endure the humiliating defeats that he, practically the Tsar of a 140 million-strong country, has repeatedly suffered several times from the Ukrainians. His personal anger at Ukrainians and the political situation that developed after the 2019 presidential elections in Ukraine, which became a catalyst for his insane actions, led him to carry out an act of vengeance against the Ukrainians by destroying them physically, and destroying Ukraine as a state in general. His malice of the petty fiend imp is such that he is ready to sacrifice innumerable lives of his compatriots (whom he, by tradition of Muscovy, obviously considers to be his slaves) to achieve the true objective of this war – personal revenge on Ukrainians for their freedom-loving and intractability to his political intrigues.
Oleg Balan,
September 2022
Hello, New Ukraine!
or
Big Offence of little putin
This story about Maidan is a summary of my personal impressions of the events that took place in Kyiv between November 2013 and February 2014. Speaking with participants of these revolutionary events, I often advised them on writing down everything they personally saw. However, I could not even imagine that one day I would follow this advice myself. I was prompted to write down my personal impressions by a letter (given below) received by e-mail from Artur Schuppe, an employee of one of foreign partners of the enterprise I work for. I was writing this letter in March 2014. Since I was writing my response to a foreigner, for his deeper understanding of what had happened in Ukraine, I started it with a short historical overview. Due to the lack of time, since I actively participated in Maidan, I was quite behind my work schedule and did not have the opportunity to write my answer in one sitting. Therefore, I sent it in parts, as those parts had been written. These parts are separated by line ***********.
Hello, New Ukraine!
I would like to congratulate you on your victory over the corrupt regime of Yanukovych. Ukrainians, well done, you have managed to drive the thief Yanukovych and his gang away. All Russian-speaking population of Germany is following what is happening in Ukraine. And they vigorously discuss the situation in your country. I hope that this time the will of the people will be heard and it won’t be just a change of the elite, as it happened during the Orange Revolution. Of course, we understand that Ukraine now has a long and difficult path to go before the situation in the country returns to normal. But, better now than never.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / С уважением / Best regards
Artur Schuppe / Артур Шуппе
Vertrieb – Export / Sales department
(This letter was received on February 24, 2014)
Hello, dear Arthur!
I am very grateful for your congratulations. Ukrainians are indeed fine fellows! If miracles happen in the world, then Ukrainians have done a real miracle.
Ukraine is a motley country. In addition to being multinational, different regions of our country have gone through various difficult historical events. If we talk about nationalities, then, as we say, Ukrainians stand for the major “titular” nation. This nation hardly ever had its own state (except for Kievan Rus). In 1242, Kievan Rus was conquered by the Mongols. 80 years later, many lands of Kievan Rus were taken from the Mongols by the Principality of Lithuania. Thanks to this the Ukrainians found themselves in Lithuania. After entering an agreement between Hetman Khmelnitsky and the Moscow Tsar in Pereyaslav in 1654 (the Soviet propaganda called this act “the reunification of Ukraine with Russia”), the laws and practices of the Tsardom of Muscovy gradually began to spread to Ukraine, and slavery[1] was the worst among those. The Muscovites have always been very cruel to Ukrainians and have never respected them. The Russian tsars did a lot to turn Ukraine into Russia, and Ukraine always resisted it. Muscovites called the part of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire “Malorossiya” (meaning “Little Russia”), and Ukrainians were called “malorossy”. Ukrainian culture, to put it mildly, has been never encouraged, and Russians have always been trying to eradicate the Ukrainian language. Thus Ukrainian schools were banned for a long time, literature written in Ukrainian was not published. Therefore, the Ukrainian language was cultivated mainly among the rural Ukrainian population. The overwhelming majority of urban population used Russian language. When I was a little boy, I have been living most of my childhood in the city. It was believed among my peers that only “Selyuky” (downtrodden uneducated rural people), who were also contemptuously called “Kuguty”, spoke the Ukrainian language.
