Kiev Separatism

On May 11, in Mariupol, where the burned out buildings were still smoldering, another storm began. It was a massive “storm” of polling stations where the voting on the status of Donetsk region - which turns into Donetsk People's Republic right before our eyes - was taking place. It was an open voting. The whole world could see the long queues of people. They were standing patiently in the May rain waiting for an opportunity to cast their vote at the referendum that for the first time in many years took place in the territory which is still the territory of Ukraine. Everybody will agree that there were really few observers who seriously doubted the result of Mariupol citizens’ will expression, while it was determined beforehand by the dreadful events that this town faced on May 9. 

During the last years Mariupol citizens were not particularly active in elections - whether they were the routine presidential “races” or the seasonal fights of fat cats for the right to wear the seat out of their pants under the dome of the Verkhovna Rada. People went to the polls reluctantly, showing low attendance and undisguised disbelief that by dropping a ballot in the ballot box an ordinary citizen of a working town at the Sea of Azov could improve their life in any way. Yes, they voted for Yanukovich in here - voluntary compulsory, by inertia and according to the companies managements’ orders. Still, they never showed any enthusiasm about it, despite all the efforts of the political consultants employed by “regionals”, expensive commercials during primetime on top rated TV channels, and billboards placed everywhere. People here didn’t trust “their son of a bitch” from Mezhgorye just the same as they didn’t trust his “foreign” predecessors.

And now everything has changed. Two people - acting Interior Minister businessman Arsen Avakov and billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskyi who received the right to reign in Dnepropetrovsk region - managed to do something that couldn’t be reached by the most double-dyed and skillful spin doctors at the past election campaigns. They literally drove tens and hundreds of thousands of Mariupol residents, as well as millions of their countrymen from other cities of Luhansk region and Donbass, to the referendum. Using military force against civilians, they made them vote for the independent status of Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics.

The recipe of such a high attendance is simple - the Kiev regime has provided it by bringing armored vehicles and armed far-right contractors from the private army of the “pro-Ukrainian” governor and oligarch to Mariupol centre. Shooting in the center of the town that hasn’t known fights since 1944, burned out buildings, killed and wounded citizens who joined a peaceful demonstration to commemorate the war victims and became victims themselves - all this immediately helped to determine the choice of the residents of the town and the South-East region.

Just yesterday many of these people wanted to be a part of Ukraine - and they still want it. However, they can not and do not want to obey the orders of unelected usurper politicians from the far Kiev who sent tanks against their people unleashing a bloody civil war. The referendum result is obvious; and it’s not notorious "Putin's agents” to blame - the Kremlin is just skillfully taking advantage of aggressive militaristic policies of the junta. This result was predetermined by the dreadful nightmare of Odessa, where the right soccer fans burned alive the local malcontents; by the senseless and totally failed military operation against Slaviansk and Kramatorsk, where people are dying every day; by murders in the center of Mariupol and bandit raids on peaceful Krasnoarmeisk, where Kolomoyskyi’s gunmen shot two locals dead trying to prevent them from casting their votes during the referendum.

Avakov, Kolomoyskyi, Turchynov, Yatsenyuk - these are the last names of the people, the separatists from the offices in Bankova street, who have successfully agitated Donbass residents actually forcing them to opt for the new republics. If they continue the criminal war against their fellow citizens, no force will keep these republics within the boundaries of the country split by the nationalist government.

Sergey Kirichuk

Liva

13.05.2014