On the occasion of the Day of Dignity and Freedom

 

Dear compatriots!

Let me congratulate you on the first anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity, on the Day of Dignity and Freedom.

A year ago authority, confident in its impunity, has sold the desired by millions of Ukrainians prospect of living in a joint European home to Kremlin for several billions of credit dollars and a promise of military support.

The dreams and hopes of Ukrainians turned to be worth of nothing for Yanukovych & Co. who actively built a totalitarian country following the example of a northern neighbor. 

This is the way Maidan began. For several months of severe standoff during rain and frost against armored military men and the authority that completely went mad with impunity, Maidan withstood and won! Ukrainians chose freedom. They withstood their right to live in a democratic European country. The sons and daughters of Ukraine paid in blood for this freedom. The memory of the Heavenly hundred will forever be engraved in the heroic history of our country. 

In whatever format the newly Ukrainian authority would be formed, the lessons of Maidan were the main test that proves its ability to run the country. Maidan should become a continuously operating mechanism that will never allow any official, irrespective of the post, to deem that he/she determines country’s destiny, or that he/she can neglect the standing and the will of their people. Ukrainian authority should always be decent of those who rose against dictatorship, corruption, as well as total lawlessness and arbitrariness.  

Maidan and the Revolution of Dignity have not only cleansed the country – at present this poses a real threat for Putin and any other dictator who deems that he came forever and the country belongs to him. Maidan has demonstrated that people who kneeled up are ready to fight for freedom, and are ready to overthrow any dictator and any reproachful, corrupted or rapacious authority. That is why Putin hysterically tries to stop the victorious pace of the Revolution of Dignity and destroy the country whose people defended their freedom and their right to decently live on their land. However, this pace cannot be stopped and dictators, as well as executioners have only one end – infamous nonbeing!

That is why our today’s holiday is the holiday of victory over dictatorship, despotism and totalitarism. This is the holiday of Dignity and Freedom.

Happy holiday, dear friends! May God keep you and Ukraine!

 

Oleksandr TURCHYNOV

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