World Affairs Journal: Yanukovych’s galleon and Yushchenko’s obsession
Ukraine’s last two presidents have clearly gone bonkers.
Viktor Yanukovych has built himself a Spanish galleon. Viktor
Yushchenko is still suffering from his Yulia Tymoshenko obsession. The
two Viktors used to stand for different visions of Ukraine. Now they
stand for identical psychological maladies.
Journalist Tetyana Chornovil sneaked into Yanukovych’s palatial
compound north of Kyiv on August 24th, Independence Day in Ukraine.
“This was,” she later told [1]
the press, “an exclusively political action. After Yanukovych signed
the law on languages, I fully understood that he is an enemy of Ukraine.
I wanted to alert people to the fact that we are sliding toward
dictatorship for the next 20 years. And my action was supposed to
demonstrate that fences mean nothing. No fence can protect the enemies
of Ukraine from the anger of people, from their peaceful actions, if
many of them show up. If one person can do this, then nothing can stop a
sea of humanity.”