Ukraine Doesn’t Quit

~ Clarissa

I can see that there is still a couple of Putinoids lurking around the blog. They downvoted the “Ukraine Keeps Winning” post and are seething in impotent rage.

What is really curious, though, is how Ukrainians are manufacturing diversity in a pretty monolithic society. They keep inviting people from other countries to help run the country. The idea is to fill the government with folks who haven’t been touched by the truly outrageous Ukrainian corruption. The battle against corruption is extremely hard but there have already been some notable successes.

So suck on this, stupid Putinoids.

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  1. Well, it is not that simple about diversity. Yes, on the surface, you get people of varying ethnic origins in the positions of power. But I guess one important aspect of diversity is missing – the diversity of views. The system is selecting certain type of people, whom I would call pro-western hardcore democracy progressors. And the same type of people sort of self-selects, I mean – by offering their services to Ukraine. And I have very strong instinctive affinity to these people… But:

    The problem is – most of these people do not quite understand that some countries are simply not ready for it. For a variety of reasons. Many middle-eastern countries seem not ready for that, and once well-meaning westerners toppled their moderately bloody dictators, they descended into complete chaos. Ukraine has all the right to blame Soviet system and imperialist oppression – but it seems, judging by the level of corruption, that Ukraine is not quite ready either…

    Nothing specifically anti-Ukrainian here, it seems to me that one cannot just adopt democracy and American-style cosmopolitan civic society or be given them from the outside. Each nation has to evolve into that state (unlike Putinists or other conservatives I do agree that it is a desired state), through the painful process in some ways analogous to personal growth of an individual. In most cases this involves getting into such a deep shit that painful change is less painful than staying the way one is… Well-meaning outsiders are not always helpful in such process… Especially when one supposedly experiencing personal growth can displace the responsibility for oneself onto them.

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    1. “Ukraine has all the right to blame Soviet system and imperialist oppression – but it seems, judging by the level of corruption, that Ukraine is not quite ready either…”

      • Yes, absolutely, the corruption is a much much greater danger than an army of Putins, let alone a single one. It’s such a total blight on the country. And the worst part is that it’s very hard to reorient Ukrainians from seeing corruption exclusively as the ill plaguing those in power and towards taking responsibility for their own corruption. I’m sick and tired of people who rant for hours about how Poroshenko is corrupt, the entire government is corrupt, etc., when I know dozens of cases when these very folks gave and took bribes. This is absolutely THE problem to resolve right now. There is already a critical mass of people in Ukraine who are tired of living like this. Now they will have to make the effort and actually transition into a corruption-free life. It might be good for them to look at foreigners and imbibe some of the corruption-free habits from them.

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