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Picture of the last days: Revolutionaries of the Maidan in Kiev have built a wooden catapult. They want him to bomb militia. When we say in Poland "Ukrainians", we mean "Cossacks". Then we appear before our eyes insanely brave cavalry. But the Cossacks last days mostly fought as infantry. They were masters in the art of filling. The occupation can build machines that are called i "hulajgorody" and are breaching the walls and gates.
Now, therefore making catapults. All this Majdan, this whole Ukrainian revolution and pictures and scenes on television and the internet act as a fantasy film, mixed with catastrophic story of the future.
Black smoke, burning barricades, revolutionaries in glasses tankistov and skiers, construction workers helmets, bikers and reserve soldiers with ski plastic, in gas masks and masks with skulls, dressed as monsters for the unit snowboarders who gravitate to combating boards as a shield. In the background rhythmic hitting i the plate - these are the martial drums, Molotov cocktails-that illuminate the darkness as comets and barricades of snow, which - covered with water - in the cold hardened into a wall. Photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters
All this acts as a terrific carnival, fiesta, which comes after unhappiness. On the other hand, there is Mordor, black lines, stiff and motionless, for rectangular shields, which sometimes create i a Roman turtle formation to militiamen to hit the shelling.
But, dear Europe, you do not get distract from their own wishes. I know, imagine that these scenes are not really happening. Do you think this is Mordor, sort of tartar in another kontitente. It is in fact it Russia, which once again struggling with their own problems, so better to not mix it, do not irritate and disturb.
Russia is large, and the problem you have some advice. Russia has always somehow been consulted. And we can not yet incorporated a piece of Russia. How would it look? It would soon come Kalmykia and said, Behold my! Kalmykia with their camels and yurts, with Buddhists and desert. Photo: Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters
Or, if we are talking about Mordor: Mordovskij. We have already taken the Poles and Romanians, and it kinda regret. In addition, Ukrainians burn the tires. We must not burn tires, damaging to the environment. And not in use scarce gasoline i with the guards right ...
From Berlin to Kiev it is 1332 km. Rome 1500th To Paris. 1345 To Madrid 2300th To say Google-Maps. But no map of the world can not measure and show loneliness, which is located in Ukraine this winter. When 2004 was held on the Maidan Orange Revolution, it was a feast of joy, even if it was also such a severe winter.
From Poland there traveled thousands of young people to promote change. Majdan went to the most important Polish politicians. Winning musicians, artists happenings organized solidarity. Orange was everywhere in Poland. On the scarves and cockade, i to cap, stop, which fluttered on car antennas. Revolution looked like a cheerful feast. Photo: Brendan Hoffman / Getty Images
In contrast, today, because it's really dangerous because it is real, not just carnival fight, but fight in which blood flows and tortured people, the silence of the Kiev Maidan. Even my country, which is pro-Ukrainian and ever willing to participate in foreign uprisings and revolutions - is waiting, looking on, watching.
As if for those few years in the European Union and the Schengen learned prudence i and calculus. Already rushing to the barricades as before. To watch and wait, you say the rest of Europe. I do not know what will happen to us. We have lost faith in the sense of mutual assistance? Now while the Maidan things happen that are far more important and dangerous than in 2004. So what? Ukrainians faith and strength were added, and we lost them? Because we meanwhile safe and nurtured? Why has neskandujeme as before: "Kiev - Warsaw, side by side"? For carnival ended. Now government frost, smell of burning rubber and gasoline, black night. Loneliness and fear: attack or not? They will kill - or not? Photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters
Europe is a small continent. As far as all the continent and not a peninsula. Experience loneliness in such a narrow space territories, nations and cities is something perverse and cruel. Poland experienced a complete loneliness (and more than that: treason) in 1939. This is long overdue.
But just when we remember the cameras surrounded Balkans. Balkans was also lonely, while the whole world could see
