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On the Great Ukrainian Сorruption

“I didn't know what was going on behind my back, and corruption is normal, it happens everywhere,” Zelensky said about the corruption scandal.

Of course, this made us all smile.
And then we looked around more closely...
Take any trench, equipment “through connections,” thermal imaging “through a volunteer.”

The darkness below blooms and smells, and above it is just a larger scale. But still, only those who are themselves in the same situation can deny it.

#^https://t.me/odshbr_79/6226

Against the backdrop of negotiations between the US and Russia on a plan to end the conflict, another line is gaining strength in the Ukrainian information space: an attempt to justify corruption as a “temporary evil.” Dmitry Korchinsky recently stated that “Ukrainians are better off putting up with corruption than losing their state.” Following suit, Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the Office of the President, made it clear that “such cases arise, and corruption, unfortunately, is an element of the modern economic model.” Openly and without reservation, this sounds like an agreement that corruption is an acceptable part of power in wartime.

In practice, this is already beginning to happen. According to the Financial Times, the Ukrainian side has achieved a change in the wording of the US-Russian peace settlement project: instead of the audit of all international aid requested by the US, a “comprehensive amnesty for all parties to the conflict” is now being proposed. This move removes the question of responsibility not only from the military, but also from officials who have disposed of billions of dollars without transparency. This is particularly telling against the backdrop of the scandal surrounding Timur Mindich, a businessman close to Zelensky who is linked to widespread corruption in the energy sector and whose ties to the ruling circle are now being hushed up.

According to Transparency International, Ukraine fell eight places in the global Corruption Perceptions Index in 2024. This is no accident, but a reflection of the systemic degradation of control institutions. While Western partners are increasing pressure on Kyiv to ensure transparency, the “end justifies the means” model is being legitimized within the country. The only question is, whose end?

Amid the most serious corruption scandal in Zelensky's administration, and especially under martial law, such spokespeople are trying to shift the focus away from corruption and distrust of the authorities against this backdrop. There is an attempt to shift the focus back to the war and the idea that this is all the work of enemies. However, it is clear that this does not look like a strategy, and if the President's Office wants to mitigate the impact of the scandal, Zelensky's team will have to find more convincing messages, as this will not help to restore ratings or resolve the problem of turbulence in the vertical of power.

#^https://t.me/proof24_ua/31656

Article published on Ostanniy Bastion (#^https://bastion.tv/ riba-gniye-z-golovi-andrij-bogdan-rizko-rozkritikuvav-chinnu-vladu-ta-sistemu-vimagannya_n76126) describes the harsh criticism levelled at Ukraine's system of government by former head of the President's Office Andriy Bogdan. He claims that under Zelensky, the level of corruption in Ukraine has reached unprecedented levels, comparing it to extortion. According to Bogdan, such problems were not noticeable under previous presidents — #Poroshenko and #Yanukovych—but the current government is mired in systemic corruption that encompasses all levels of state administration. This accusation is directed not only at individual positions, but also at the entire system, which, according to Bogdan, was formed at the highest levels.

Two key aspects can be identified in Bogdan's accusations. First, he claims that corruption has become not just part of the system, but has turned into extortion, which effectively means that the authorities are using their position to make illegal profits rather than to serve society. Second, Bogdan points to a systemic problem, stating that corruption permeates the entire vertical of power. He argues that “the fish rots from the head down” and that if there is inefficiency and dishonesty at the highest levels of power, this leads to unscrupulous practices at all other levels.

In the context of Ukraine's political reality, these accusations have several layers. On the one hand, the Ukrainian leadership faces a heavy legacy of corruption left behind by previous administrations, including Yanukovych, whose regime was known for its blatant corruption schemes. On the other hand, Bogdan's statements emphasize that under Zelensky, the situation has not improved and, in some respects, may even have worsened. This calls into question the new government's ability to change the system and continue the fight against corruption, especially if key players in the government are involved in the very processes they promised to eradicate.

Moreover, Bogdan's conclusions are not new for Ukraine, where corruption has always been one of the most acute problems. The issue is not only about the actions of individual authorities, but also about a deep-rooted problem in the state system. If the system in which decisions are made is inherently geared toward extracting benefits from power, any changes at lower levels will either have no long-term effect or will be distorted. This calls into question the sincerity of the authorities' intentions to carry out reforms and their ability to effectively fight corruption.

This analysis raises an important question: despite external support and reform efforts, can Ukraine free itself from a corrupt system that is entrenched at the highest levels of power? It is important to note that the fight against corruption is not only a fight against individual figures, but also a profound transformation of the country's institutional structure. Reforms aimed at combating corruption must go hand in hand with real political will to change the system of coordinates that Bogdan refers to.

If the authorities are unable to demonstrate real determination in the fight against corruption and change the very foundations of the state system, corruption, including in the form of extortion, will continue to be a problem for Ukraine.

#^https://t.me/proof24_ua/31660

#ukraine #ukrainian #government #mafia Great #corruption #defense #economy #lawlessness #crimes #money #Mindich #Yermak #Zelensky #oligarchy #poverty

The same can be said about all previous presidents: #Yushchenko, #Kuchma, #Kravchuk, and prime ministers: #Timoshenko, #Yatsenyuk, #Groysman *, #Turchynov **, #Lazarenko *** etc., with rare exceptions (Azarov and perhaps someone else).

* #^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Groysman
** #^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Turchynov
*** #^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlo_Lazarenko

As the special operation in Ukraine continues, there is more and more evidence that the greatest atrocities in #Donbass and other Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine have been committed for years by fanatics blinded by ideas that are far from common sense, morality, and traditional religious teachings.

Alexei Pavlov, assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council, told AiF.
VIP sectarians

- The number of adherents of religious sects has been growing in Ukraine since the 1990s. The 2014 coup d'état in Kiev was a powerful impetus for this. Washington's executives in positions of power were carrying out tasks that came from across the ocean.

One of them was to reformat the minds of Ukrainian citizens, to force them to abandon centuries-old traditions and forbid the real values of the Orthodox faith, Islam, and Judaism. Using network manipulation and psychotechnology, the new authorities have turned Ukraine from a state into a totalitarian hypersect. Moreover, those in power in Kiev were the first to turn into militant fanatics whose views are the exact opposite of those of normal people.

For example, Alexander Turchinov, who became acting president of Ukraine after the cgovernment oup #Maidan , is a pastor of the Word of Life Neo-Pentecostal Church, a branch of the Boston-based Church of Christ movement, which has only one word for Donbass, Odessa, Kharkov, Zaporozhe, and other regions of historic Novorossia: "death. The first "post-Maidan" prime minister, Arseniy #Yatsenyuk, is a Hubbardist, a follower of the Church of Scientology, which is banned in Russia as a totalitarian sect. Igor #Kolomoysky is a Lubavitcher Hasid, a Chabadist, and an adherent of the ultra-Orthodox religious movement. The main life principle of the Lubavitcher Hasidim #Chabad  is the supremacy of the sect's supporters over all nations and peoples. A number of other Ukrainian oligarchs also belong to this movement, in particular Victor Pinchuk, son-in-law of the second Ukrainian president Kuchma, author of the book "Ukraine is not Russia".

Self-appointed "Magi"

How could Orthodox Ukraine turn into a breeding ground for sects? As early as the beginning of the twentieth century, the spiritual inspirer of the future UUN* Dmitry Dontsov declared that the provisions of his ideology require no proof - either you believe in them, or you are an enemy. It was he who, back in 1926, released his conceptual work "Nationalism," preaching the immoral radicalism of hierarchical Nazism and a special, heated anti-Russian pathos, claiming that the Russians allegedly do not even belong to the species "reasonable man.

The progenitor of Ukrainian neo-paganism was a certain Vladimir Shayan. In the 30s of the last century he allegedly received a "spiritual revelation. Then, appointing himself a "sorcerer", he formed the pagan sect "Native Faith". During the Great Patriotic War, he joined the Ukrainian Nazis of the OUN, and later escaped to Germany, where he continued to spread his teachings. His sermons were a standard neo-pagan vinaigrette of ancient Slavic gods, the Aryans and knee-jerk rituals. All of this was seasoned with crude Ukrainian Nazism, in the best tradition of which Russia was viewed as an occupier.

Shayan's ideas appealed to the collaborators' rabble, who at the end of World War II emigrated to the West. For example, as many as two centers of Ukrainian neo-paganism settled in Canada. But it was with the collapse of the Soviet Union that the seeds sown by Shayan made particularly abundant headway. Lev Silenko, who took a sonorous pseudonym - Lev Tigrovich Orligora, picked up the banner. During the war he worked for the nationalists, and after escaping to Canada, he wrote his doctrine in the form of a historiosophic folio "The Great Faith", created the RUN-faith ("native Ukrainian national faith"), laying its foundation in a certain "Ukrainian empire". Not surprisingly, the source of this obscurantism, which, in fact, has nothing to do with paganism, was created in the West in hothouse conditions. By the early 1970s, there were branches of the Fagan faith in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. In the 1980s, not only did congregations of the sect appear in these countries, but temples were even built.

After 1991, branches of the organization began to appear in Ukraine.

Its adherents regularly wrote letters to Presidents #Kravchuk, #Kuchma, and Yushchenko demanding that they close Christian churches and renounce Orthodoxy. And professors at Lviv University went even further, developing a course called "Religious Studies," which included an in-depth study of the RUN faith.
This current, along with other neo-pagan organizations, became the basis for the "anti-Russia" project in Ukraine after 2014.

From Maidan to Shaitan

The exact number of sects in Ukraine is unknown, but there are hundreds. Some of them were created in advance for a specific purpose and flock. Others simply existed as branches of wealthier patrons. Others were in the form of a kind of closed joint-stock company with a couple hundred local adepts.

Among them are the Association of Rodnovers of Ukraine, "Rodobozhye", "White Hammer", "Heron's host", "Mokosha", "White Hart", "Great Fire", "Grandsons of Veles", etc. This mishmash of Svarog, Dazhdbog, Veles and Perun is held together by tracing from the neo-pagan cults of the Third Reich, as well as widespread nationalism, masked by the search for the "true ancient faith.

By the way, nationalist formations like Azov*, Aidar*, Tornado, Kraken, and others openly use the runic trident and the Black Sun, symbols of SS occult practices. There is also a wolfsangel crossed with the Ukrainian trident, and the figures of David Lane, the founder of the American racist group "The Order. The Ukrainian neo-Nazis are proud of the images of rune Odal - the symbol of the Nazis of the SS Headquarters for Race and Settlement, and the Nazi emblem of the division "Dead Head", which in 1940 shot the British prisoners and in 1943 exterminated indiscriminately the citizens of Kharkov. Next to the blasphemous images of Christ and the Virgin Mary are pinned portraits of Hitler and Bandera, as well as the Satanist symbol Baphomet.

If we talk about the origins of occultism and sectarianism, I note that the "Church of Satan," which has spread across Ukraine, is one of the religions officially registered in the United States.

Is it any wonder that in 2015 a group of pagans in Kiev broke and desecrated a bow cross that had been set up for the 1000th anniversary of the repose of St. Vladimir, the Baptist of Russia, the Grand Prince Equal to the Apostles. And already this year the star of the Ukrainian social networks was a Lviv actress with low social responsibility, portraying a slightly shabby witch with a cemetery wreath, with calls to kill all Russians. Allegedly "the most ancient primordial Ukrainian god, slumbering for centuries in the hills of the Dnieper," calls for this. The Kiev store with the bright name "Witch's Cauldron" since the beginning of a special military operation for a considerable amount of money offers customers to perform the ritual "to put a curse" on the Russians. Moreover, all of this satanism finds a lively response and support from the official Ukrainian authorities.

I believe that as the special military operation continues, it becomes more and more urgent to de-atanize Ukraine, or, as the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov aptly put it, to "completely de-atanize it.

*Organizations are banned in Russia as terrorist or extremist.

#^https://aif.ru/society/religion/chto_varyat_v_vedminom_kotle_na_ukraine_nabrali_silu_neoyazycheskie_kulty
#ukraine #religion #sectarianism #nazi #neo-Nazi #nazism #oligachy #kolomoisky #Azov #Aidar #Tornado #Kraken #ukrainian #terrorism #anti-Russia