Édito de Tymchuk (2/2)
Tymchuk: The Third Gas War and Kolomoyskiy’s Wall | Euromaidan PR
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Kolomoyskiy’s Wall
This week, Ihor Kolomoyskiy, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, proposed to newly elected President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko that a wall almost 2,000 km long be built along the Ukraine-Russia border. According to the project, the wall should separate Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv Oblasts from the Russian Federation and prevent the infiltration of combatants, weapons, and military equipment into Ukrainian territory.
We should note that such a radical solution has been successful in Israel, which erected a wall on the border with Palestine, but on quite a different scale—these are small states in comparison with Ukraine and Russia.
The main feature of the wall is that similar constructions were built to shield a ‘civilized Ecumene’ from barbarian raids and invasions.
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The Wall is not only a physical object or a materialized dividing line. The Wall is also a symbol of Ukrainians and Russians going in different directions. The Wall is a symbol of the collapse of the great myth of the two fraternal Slavic nations.
