Author of quotes: Ukraine at a crossroads

...... a population that, swallowing from the media of misinformation, naively believes that in order for life to improve, it must first be seriously worsened. And then even a minor change for the better will be perceived as a victory. Just like in
a well-known anecdote about the father of the family, who came to the sage and complains: "We live in a one-room apartment with five, two families, cramped, difficult." The sage advises him to get a dog and settle it with them. The father of the family does not understand, but the sage advises, so it is necessary to do. Life becomes even more unbearable. The father again goes to the sage. He listened and advised to have a goat: they say, you will drink milk. And again the father of the family listens to the advice. Life becomes quite unbearable. Again you have to go to the sage. He wonders how so - all the advice is not for the future? Well, then try to give someone a goat. The father of the sage's family listened, did as he said. A week later, a joyful person comes to him and says: "They gave the goat - it became great to live, the only thing that interferes is the dog. At night he gawk, he does not let him sleep." The sage listened to him and again advised: "Well, if the dog interferes with sleep, give it to someone." They gave the dog away. And the family healed happily. The wife baked the cake and said to her husband: "Take the cake to the sage, thanks to his advice we finally healed well and happily. If it were not for his wisdom, we would have suffered for the rest of our lives." Unfortunately, this is what is happening in our country. Instead of living with our minds, we live as someone else's. And life, if you look at it with a sober look, is getting worse and worse. It's time to give someone both a "goat" and a "dog". The only question is: who will take them?

After yu's arrest. Tymoshenko western countries swept a real storm of protests. I now compare their silence about the shelling of hospitals, schools, kindergartens by artillery, the wounding and death of children and civilians of Donbass with the hysteria that erupted over the arrest of Tymoshenko, and I am getting scared. This is not just a double standard, but in general the complete absence of universal norms of morality, which is so fond of talking in the West. Once the famous Russian poet Konstantin Simonov wrote clever lines: "There is no other person's grief, who is afraid to confirm this, probably, or kills or prepares for murderers..."

In general, V.F.Yanukovych had some kind of blind admiration for foreign consultants or advertised firms. Once he enthusiastically told me about his conversation with the consultants of the McKenzie firm. He brought them in to work on the committee. I also met with them - smart and educated guys. However, they did not know the Ukrainian economy, and the general schemes and concepts without their adaptation to the real environment meant nothing. I didn’t argue with V.F.

Working at the congress, in its commissions, gave me the opportunity to personally get acquainted with almost all the leaders of our country. With the exception of N.I. Ryzhkov and N.A. Nazarbayev, all the other leaders, and above all B.N. supported her. Of course, before the Congress, all attention and all hopes were associated with Boris N. Yeltsin. My disappointment was terrible. I saw a rather limited person, absolutely unprepared for the role of a reformer and reformer of the USSR. He was especially irritated by the feigned democratism of the nomenklatura worker - on the one hand, familiar relations with people, on the other, incredible arrogance. And this mixture of incompatible made him completely fake. When I realized this, I was struck by the general euphoria of his supporters, because there were many smart people among them.

This book was not easy to create - the events that it talks about are too close. To comprehend and evaluate them, I needed to include a lot of reference material, a lot of documents, accurate figures and facts. The book is not designed for the screaming Maidan, there are no sensations and "fried" details. It is intended for a thoughtful, inquisitive reader who is accustomed to understand everything himself. And reliable information to clarify the true state of affairs in the book abounds.
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And yet I am an optimist, I am sure that this black streak in the history of Ukraine will pass. Inevitably, there will come a time of renewal. That's just I would like it to happen as soon as possible, so that the words of the poet do not come true: "It's a pity only - you will not have to live in this beautiful time - neither I nor you"...