Mobilization in Ukraine is a difficult and contradictory topic for me. Everything, what was said and written about it was negative, and it seems that talks about Kiev junta are not groundless. But do we have to protect our Motherland? But protect against what? There is no war, no martial law! But there is shelling, not even from machine guns but from “Grad” mounts. So what is going on? Do we need mobilization? What mobilization is needed and according to which laws?
Such fact that agenda begin to hand not only on the work or at home, but on the streets, in transport, shops and other places, without which modern city inhabitant doesn’t imagine his existence, caused a wave of indignation in the society. The sense of such perturbations is that at home you can simply don’t open the door, the colleagues don’t give out at work, but not to move on the transport and not to go on the streets this is too much. I had one of the not so good (in all senses) acquaintance who was very afraid the entering of Ukraine into EU. His fears were that you need to live in Europe by the laws, stole — moved to the jail, didn’t pay the taxes — moved to the jail etc. “It should always be a loophole, or half country will be in the jail” — he thought.
The same and with mobilization: there is must be an opportunity not to get officially the agenda, because it turns that everyone could be urged. But, it’s a pity, agenda could be handed everywhere and in any time. The acquittals and legal aspects end on this and as it’s known every legal event could come to absurd in our country.
According to getting the agenda in public places, no sex, no age couldn’t become the criterion for the mobilization. At first, only citizens of certain category are subject to appeal. The most part of them are assigned to specific military commissariat fit for health and do not have a delay for other valid reasons. This means that agenda could be given to a person everywhere, but if this person has an identity document. The main thing it must be discharged at a particular person and to fill in a hurry in the bus or at the square on a bench. Secondly, agenda is given in advance, nobody has a right to take inductee away at the moment into the recruitment point. All the more so agenda calls inductee not in the army, but only in the recruitment office, where his documents are checked, a man passes a medical examination and only after that he is directed in a specific training center or landfill.
All these norms are violating in Ukraine and not only norms. Common sense was violated, when employees or even killed soldiers were recruited. Medical board allowed to military service people with such a condition of health, that not every enterprise could decide to take a person as accountant. In general, it is the result of excessive zeal of local campaigners and if you have a serious reason not to serve, you won’t go there with certain desire, made efforts and proven your right on to defer or of achieving a normal medical examination.
People are disappointed by reforms, scared by costs, course of dollar. They’re furious about cost of utilities and they throw up one more stimulus — the mobilization. Here is one more aspect, more important than emotional. How person, which was forcefully urged, who at least ceased to be loyal to the government, considering the details of 6th wave angry on everyone and everything? The answer is simple, he will drink, saboteur service and degrading discipline.
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The insoluble and contradictory situations are very often appear in our country. The same with 6th wave of mobilization. It is needed to be held, we don’t increase our low defenses without it. But how to recruit people, who absolutely don’t care, what’s happening in the neighbour region, how to make them to defend Ukraine? Why cafe and restaurants are full of healthy and strong young people every evening and my good comrade, who was 54 years old died near Illovaysk? He had ill legs and he was the mayor of a little far from Donetsk region town in Khmelnitsky region. I don’t judge this young people, moreover, from my heart I wish them bon appetit. I judge the state, which almost never reminded us that we are Ukrainians, people with a history of one and half of thousand years, with with Tripoli culture with the Zaporizhzhya Sich, people with their own language and culture.
How average patriot look alike today? A boy or a girl with necessary yellow-blue stripe, “Okean Elzy” is in a player, somebody in patriotic patriotic frenzy replace Coca-Cola for something domestic and dress “vyshivanka”. And they firmly believe that with stripes on t-shirts and “Okean Elzy”, downloaded from pirate side they build bright European future of Ukraine. We still don’t accept Ukraine our Motherland, for us, not for everybody, of course, it is just a place to stay. If there won’t be this place, we will manage to find another place to live. Maybe if nearly for quarter of the century of independence we were more often reminded who we are there were not so a lot unsolvable situations.
Petr Zlenko for informator.lg.ua