“If the cardboards were able to speak, they would say: “Since the authorities in Ukraine are the people, we, as power, must take everything in our own hands. If the current power, official, cannot cope, or does not want to do everything for the benefit of the state, then we must show our strength.””, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
All the Maidans I observe how the understanding and sense of power in Ukraine changes.
For example, at the first congress of the People’s Movement in 1989, each sentence of speakers greeted stormy applause.
These ovations are neurotic. More than 1000 delegates from all over Ukraine know that they gathered under the watchful eye of the KGB and can go not to the area for a rally, but to auto -holders.
But they still create their historical event, which Leonid Kravchuk, at that time, the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in ideology, will say: “What is happening here is so democratic that it does not fit within any framework.”
He is not only appaled, but also touches the folk movement icon on the jacket. Which he will not be able to remove, but will not be able to leave. Therefore, he will remove the jacket. This moment can be seen in the documentary series of the public “collapse. How Ukrainians destroyed the empire of evil.”
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Maneuvers whose amplitude will increase every year and will increase the space between the almighty power and the people who create their independence.
During the Dignity Revolution, the authorities were such a black amorphous clot, hostile and dangerous, with bandits and corrupt bodies, Higher Golden Aunts and tentacles. In which inflammatory cocktails flew.
The Maidan, on which the tires were burning, and restaurants worked on the neighboring street, was a condensed confrontation at the physical and symbolic level – in which the total power, which contains everything and tries to make the protest impossible – lost.
Several years after Euromaidan in Germany, we have laughed local colleagues in the field of “what are your relationship with local authorities”. City Power sounded senseless, more about the power grid than the City Council. They laughed and asked who we mean, and explained which departments cooperated with, and what those officials do.
The Postvromaidan generation, which came out of cardboard, has grown without the power of a black clot in its head.
Therefore, they are quietly thinking: the power is the people, so we, as power, must take everything in our own hands. Because power is equal to responsibility.
It is a point of powerful potential. Ukraine is an anarchic country, we love to build our own business and horizontal connections, so the volunteer movement during the war has become a parallel state in infrastructure.
This has strength – horizontal independent structures are difficult to destroy and cannot be controlled. But there is also weakness – the state owns resources and has a mandate for strategic decisions, and should not waste them, but use as effectively as civil society.
It is metaphorically about “every body of its own cardboard.” About to know and understand how institutions work, why they are important, what reforms, how to join them and how to support, how to control them.
It is a lot of work in the market for building society. The work we really love to do.
Tamara Zlobina, feminist philosophy, head of expert resource “Gender in Details”
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