Opinion: Who will win Ukraine’s ‘political football match without rules’?
If democracy had existed in ancient Egypt, then not a single pyramid would not have been built.
All because free people in democratic countries will only agree to build pyramids for good wages, and good wages are incompatible with a luxurious lifestyle of the Pharaohnic family. But if the country has no Pharaoh then it will not cross anybody’s mind to build pyramids.
If “Ukrainian democracy” had existed in ancient Egypt then the pyramids would not have been built, not only because of a lack of money for salaries but also because of the ordinary theft of half of the funds allocated for their construction.
I’m not actually a big proponent of building pyramids. But “Ukrainian democracy”, I like it. What is more, it feeds me. Not in the sense that it provides some kind of social security and promises a good retirement. No! With enviable regularity “Ukrainian democracy” feeds me with plots for novels, as well as offering so many potential fictional heroes that no one writer could fit it all in even if he writes two thick novels in a year.
Therefore because of a lack of enough lifetime to write hundreds of novels, I have to write some of the real-life stories just like this, in short articles.
The presidency of Viktor Yanukovych started in 2010 with a slogan: “We are building a new country”. Billboards with the slogan decorated all the country’s cities, villages and roads. So, everyone understands that major construction work is starting, which means that smaller signs of the kind that adorn building sites will soon appear, reading: “Sorry for the inconvenience.”
Anyway the construction boom first started in the capital, Kyiv. On the hills overlooking the Dnieper River work began on a presidential helipad and overpass leading to the government quarter in the city. At the same time work began on a helipad near the mountain at the summit of which is buried national Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, a hundred kilometers from Kyiv.
They said that from now on for the effective use of time of the head of state the president will only go and see the grave of the great poet by helicopter.
The helipads having not been completed the country set about building stadiums for Euro 2012 to be held in just a month, new airport terminals in the cities where matches will take place and, of course, set about the repair of the roads on which hundreds of thousands of fans from Western Europe will doubtless travel on when they come to Ukraine.
Stadiums seem to have been built and officials from UEFA were very pleased, roads are still under construction but the helipads they just can’t manage to sort out.