Dear Editor,
"Now
Poland is bracing for more such allegations (of collaboration) as a new
law takes effect Thursday requiring as many as 700,000 people in public
positions — including journalists and teachers — to be screened for
Soviet-era collaboration...
The
law is part of a push by Poland's president and prime minister, former
Solidarity activists Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who are identical
twins, to purge from public life those who collaborated with the
communist intelligence agencies — a reckoning largely avoided in the
bloodless transition to democracy that began in 1989." (Associated
Press)
Perhaps
this is what Ukraine needs also. If Poland has the Courage to face its
past, then why shouldn't Ukraine, or are we Ukrainians Cowards when
compared to Poland.
Too
many Ukrainians have displayed Courage in the past for one simple ideal
--- a Free Ukraine. To watch that ideal become a reality that is being
twisted by knaves into an abstract illusion and leading to mediocrity
would dishonor their courage.
Instead
of lamenting about the pettiness of Ukrainian politics, as we
Ukrainians are so fond of doing, let’s find a way for this to be a
reality. Let this be the start of a cleansing of the blackness that
still permeates within the fiber of Ukraine. From businesses to
government, there is still an underlying immorality that has carried
over from the old Soviet regime.
It's
no wonder who the wealthy are in Ukraine or who are the most powerful.
I assume that most of the Ukrainian "Mafia" is composed of former KGB
henchmen. And those will only become more powerful unless true reforms
are instituted.
So
now, I ask, how does one make such a thing also happen in Ukraine? Is
there anyone living in Ukraine that can make this a possibility? Is
there any: newspaper or politician with such Courage to champion this
notion? Or is everyone simply assuming that perhaps the nest generation
will rid us of this menace? Well, believe too that the next generation
can also fall prey to the blackness of what is here today.
Granted this is a hard pill to swallow, exposure, but it's at least a start to ---- Hope!
And
if everyone thinks that to start implementing the same measure as
Poland is doing is not a practical solution for Ukraine's
predicament then we are simply deluding ourselves into believing that
Ukraine will achieve its greatness.
If
that is true, that Ukrainians won’t have the Courage to do this---then
I ask this simple question, why should any of us even bothering
with this black hole called Ukraine, as it will devour the breath of a free nation?
Yuri Bohdan
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