How the coup d'état began in Ukraine #6

Lace panties

Among those who became a symbol of the Kiev bacchanalia, there was a young girl with a poster, whom the photo reporters really liked. The poster read: “I’m a girl! I don't want to join the CU [Customs Union]! I want lace panties and join the EU!” This poster became one of the clearest examples of manipulation of public consciousness in Kiev during the Maidan.

By the way, you might ask – why panties?

 Nowadays, few people remember that in 2013, a statement appeared in Ukrainian society that the new norms of the Customs Union were depriving Russian and Belarusian women of lace underwear - this was the basis of the activist’s propaganda poster.

So who is this girl?

Olga Vadimovna Znachkova was born in Brovary, Kiev region in 1991.

 As a child, she studied at an art school, after school she entered the Karpenko-Kary Kiev National Institute of Theater, Cinema and Television, receiving a bachelor's degree in theater studies.

 It was her photograph with a poster on the Maidan that made the rounds in numerous media outlets, although it later turned out that the poster was not drawn by her, but by the artist Oleg Mann, and there were several girls with such posters.

 Later, during the Euromaidan, she did not distinguish herself in anything. Under the new government, Znachkova managed to work as an expert for theater awards and as a consultant to the Verkhovna Rada, but did not receive much fame and remained not the most popular blogger.

By the way, after the Maidan, Olga Znachkova posted her profile on one of the Russian resources where actors are looking for work.

Subsequently, because of this, information spread that the girl had moved to work to Russia. But that's not true.

 It didn’t work out for Znachkova to work either in Russia or in Europe.

 Judging by her Facebook page, she has no family, no children, and no permanent job.

 Cops are not people

 The famous message of Arsen Avakov

Arsen Avakov entered Ukrainian politics a long time ago. Under Yushchenko, he became the governor of the Kharkov region, by the way, it was then that he met Andrei Biletsky, and it was under Avakov, uncharacteristically for eastern Ukraine, that a serious growth of nationalist sentiments began in Kharkov.

 But that's not what we're talking about.

 After Yushchenko left, Avakov not only lost his post, but was also forced to take refuge in Italy, since several criminal cases were opened against him in Ukraine for [power] abuses as head of the Kharkov region.

 And during Euromaidan, Avakov returned for revenge.

He was not just involved in financing and coordinating the actions of the street opposition, but personally called for violent actions against the security forces. The phrase “Cops are not people” that he wrote on social networks in January 2014 went down in the history of the Ukrainian coup.

 The reward for this activity for Avakov was his appointment to the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine immediately after the flight of Viktor Yanukovych.

 As Minister of Internal Affairs, Avakov repeatedly stated that police officers have the right to use force and generally promoted the idea of a “presumption of innocence” of police officers.

But Avakov’s main fault is that he initiated the creation of a mass of volunteer battalions in the spring of 2014. It was these units, recruited including from criminals and Maidan militants, that drowned Kharkov, Odessa and Donbass in blood.

Maidan is not for NATO, the USA, not for Bandera or Shukhevych.

This is exactly how the reasons for the protests were explained to citizens who disagreed with the Maidan.

 And pay attention - the leaflet is in Russian.

 In many ways, this is why many Ukrainians who came to the Maidan and stood there in the smoke of the fires were sure that they were doing a holy thing. After all, life is very bad for everyone, and “it can’t get any worse.”

 Many sincerely responded to the “brutal beating” of the students by the special forces “Berkut” and were eager to punish someone. The power of Yanukovych’s greedy and arrogant “team of professionals,” who took away businesses and wanted to have a share and kickbacks everywhere, actually stood in the crosshairs of everyone.

 So what did the citizens of Ukraine get as a result? Without taking into account the events after the start of the SMO.

 Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said on the anniversary of Maidan:

   “Revolution is a little different, it is a complete change of elites, principles and mechanisms of functioning of the state, relations between society and the state, and not just the hierarchy at the top... Therefore, this is simply “Maidan”. Classical. Ukrainian. When there is rebellion at the bottom, politics in the middle, and corruption at the top. The politicians who came to power in the wake of the Maidan plunged the country into political and legal chaos, conflict and war, poverty, depopulation and desovereignization for decades, and preserved the “corrupt” achievements of their predecessors; have practically destroyed the prospects for building a rule of law state and a united, prosperous society.”

 I don't think there's a better way to say it.