May 11, while in Mariupol people’s homes were still smouldering in ambers, then came a new storming. That was the “mass storming” of the electoral booths where the plebiscite of the Donetsk region’s people took place resulting in the “Donetsk Republic” that is coming into existence right in front of our eyes. The voting was open. The entire world has seen the endless queues of the people who came to vote. They patiently stood there under the spring rain, waiting for a chance to cast their vote in the referendum that took place, unprecedented, within the jurisdiction of the territory that is yet, as of now, Ukraine. And you’ll likely agree that few of the observers ever doubted in earnest the results reflecting the will of the people of Mariupol. It has long been predestined by the nightmare developments of May 9th.
By Serhey Kirichuk
In the last few years, the Mariupol people were not known for any great activity in the elections, whether it was yet another “validating of the right president” or seasonal fight of the money bags for the privilege to wear down their pants in the seats of Verhovnaya Rada. People here at the Azov Sea were reluctant to participate in the elections, showing low turnouts in open distrust of the concept that putting a bulletin into the electoral slot would have any beneficial effect on an ordinary person’s life. Yes, here they voted for Yanukovich, “voluntarily under coercion”, by the power of inertia and by endorsement of the industrial companies’ leadership, but without manifesting any enthusiasm, in spite of all efforts of the “polytechnologists” hired by the “regionals”, expensive advertising in the prime-time top TV channels and ubiquitous billboards. The son of a bitch from Mejhigorye that was “their own” got as little trust as his “alien” predecessors.
Now everything has changed. Two individuals – the interim head of the MVD Arsen Avakov and the billionaire Igor Kolomoysky who got the princedom mandate to rule the Dnyepropetrobsk from the Kiev’s regime – managed to accomplish something that in the previous campaigns, even the most hardened and skillful PR professionals failed to do. They have literally forced tens and hundreds of the Mariupol’s nationals to go to the referendum, as well as millions of their compatriots from Lugansk region and Donbass. And by force – military force used against civilians – they have forced them to vote for the independent status of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics.
The secret sauce of the high turnout was simple: the Kiev regime promoted it by bringing the heavily armed troops into the center of Mariupol, along with ultra-right mercenaries from the private army of a “pro-Ukrainian” oligarch. The shooting in the center of town that knew no firearm combats since 1944, the burnt down homes, the killed and the wounded among those who came to a peaceful manifestation to honour the memory of the war’s victims – and who themselves became victims – have helped the population of the city and the South East region to make up their minds.
As recently as yesterday these people wanted to live within Ukraine (and they still do). But they can’t and they don’t want to take orders from the usurpers politicking in Kiev, elected by none, who let loose tanks and bloody civil war against their own people. The outcome of the referendum is obvious, and the fault does not lie with any of the much blamed “Poutin’s agents” – all Kremlin does is skillfully use in its own interests the violent militarist policies of the junta. This result was predestined by the monstrous nightmare of Odessa, where right-wing football fans burnt alive local people who revolted against the regime, by the meaningless and miserably failed military operation against Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, where people are dying every day, by the murders in the center of Mariupol and the gangster raid on peaceful Krasnoarmeysk, where the hit men of Kolomoysky shot two locals in an attempt to prevent them from voicing their choice at the referendum.
Avakov, Kolomoysky, Turchinov, Yatsenyuk are the separatists in the cabinets of Bankovaya street, who successfully indoctrinated the people of Donbass – and in fact, forced them – to opt for the new republics. And if those people continue their criminal war against their own people, no power will keep those republics within Ukraine, split by nationalist rule.
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