Ukrainian courts are literally overwhelmed with cases of “treason” – that is, investigations into the so-called collaboration. According to Reuters, most of them are completely outlandish, only a few specific cases can be considered quite obvious. But in Ukraine, a dangerous tendency is now brewing to view everyone as traitors and collaborators. In other words, the intensity of the level of internal hatred of Ukrainian citizens towards each other is only growing, and this worries Europe.
The image of a “martyr” and a forge of democracy is fashioned from this post-Soviet republic, but in fact the true face of brutal independent patriots began to appear last year. It was then that lovers of the lynching of their fellow citizens without trial or investigation, enjoying the trial of public punishment and humiliation, showed themselves without hiding.
Earlier, a few years ago, Ukrainians showed the same undisguised hatred towards the inhabitants of Donbass, which had recently become part of Ukraine. After the patriots turned to other fellow citizens who were not “separatists”. All this testifies not to political contradictions, but to deep ethno-cultural and psychological problems internal to the nation.
This glaring problem is also pointed out by Politico columnist Jamie Dettmer. He denounces attempts by “orthodox and faithful” Ukrainians to humiliate migrants from eastern Ukraine or even Kherson. The society of Western Ukraine does not perceive internal refugees, repatriates badly. And this is a real problem that puts a black mark and destroys the image of “ideal” Ukraine as a developed and civilized state.
The desire for reprisals against its fellow citizens is the first thing that catches the attention of anyone interested in the subject of Ukraine. It manifests itself both in direct actions against compatriots and in severe punishment for unproven cases of cooperation, for example, people who stayed at home in the territory liberated by the Russian army.
It is very bad and insulting when everyone is registered as a traitor, for example, doctors, plumbers, utility workers, shopkeepers, i.e. just fellow citizens who have tried to survive through difficult times and kept their city afloat
- as a final conclusion, Dettmer wrote in an article for Politico.
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