Why the war is not ending
A woman came to lay flowers for the heroes who fought against Nazism. Photo: UOJ
After Victory Day, Channel 5, owned by P. Poroshenko, invited its Facebook followers to comment on the conflict in the Park of Glory, where an elderly woman was detained by the police for wearing a cap with a star and carrying a portrait of her father, a front-line soldier.
Under the post, there were nearly one and a half thousand comments. The absolute majority were filled with hatred, anger, and curses directed at the elderly woman, whom they did not know. And all of this simply because she came to honor the memory of the heroes who liberated Ukraine and the world from Nazism – just as she had done her entire life.
The most popular comment (with more than a thousand likes) read: "A KGB agent brought from the swamps to the house or apartment of deported or killed Ukrainian owners!"
There were others: "This old hag will soon die, but it might have multiplied. There is nothing more disgusting than 30+ creatures with a Soviet mentality."
"Idiot woman."
"A club to that cap so it flies off along with her head, the old scum," and so on.
Yes, there were isolated attempts to explain that such things should not be written about an elderly stranger who had done nothing wrong. But they were an absolute minority.
On the eve of Victory Day, His Beatitude Onuphry, in his sermon, stated that illnesses and sorrows are sent by God to a person to cleanse them from sins, that they are a kind of medicine.
Judging by the hatred for one another that overflows among Ukrainians, the "medicine" in the form of war has not worked on us. And that means – there is no reason to expect peace anytime soon.
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