Posted by YAROSLAW on August 13, 2000 at 17:21:32:
I was reading some stuff on this bulletin board and somebody mentioned that Ukraine’s strength is in Democracy. I personally think that it couldn’t be further from the truth. At this point Ukraine’s weakness is in its Democracy. People are not ready, and government is not willing to participate in democracy. It may look like there is some democracy going on there, but in truth there is none. Those of you who think that we have democracy now, where is it? The country is being ran by common thugs, and former communists who took advantage of their positions during the privatization dominate the private business sector now. People are like a flock of sheep that can be very easily manipulated, and so they are manipulated. Nothing can happen unless the communists and their ideology will be outlawed. Communism is like a cancer it is still spreading around. All the former and present communists should be convicted of all the crimes that they have committed and brought to justice. Their private possessions and foreign bank accounts should be confiscated because they were obtained by wrongful means. This task is almost impossible because a lot of people profited during the Russian/Communist occupation, but it has to be done one way or another. As far as language situation in Ukraine, there should be no doubt about that Ukrainian language being one and only official language. If Russians and other foreigners choose to live in our country they may, but they should learn the language, and that is all to it.