The US is said to be a land of great opportunity. It may very well be. But really
there is another power that can compete with the "global stronghold of democracy" in this matter. This is Ukraine.
Worker's son
Ukraine is a country with almost unlimited opportunities for self-realization. Any person, having set himself an arbitrarily high goal, can achieve his goal. An illustration of this, perhaps controversial, position can be found in the biography of Viktor Yanukovych, the son of a railroad worker, who became the fourth president of Ukraine, despite some circumstances that would have prevented a similar post in many other kingdom-states.
The first "Maidan"
The dramatic events of 2004 resulted in a phenomenon whose name has taken, like a satellite, a place in most dictionaries of the world - Maidan. From that moment on, a crowded assembly of screaming and indignant people is called the people, and it is engaged in determining the economic and political course of the country. This good tradition, successfully replacing elections andreferenda continues to this day. Maidan 2004 was held under the motto of the fight against "Kuchmism". Today, few people will remember what this phenomenon was, but all the means and technologies of the information war were used, including the persistent repetition of accusations of "bloody" and "corruption".
Viktor Fyodorovich Yanukovych, according to the official version, then won by a small margin in the first round of his adviser, Yushchenko Viktor Andreevich. Everything is as usual: on the one hand, the battle was waged by a pro-Western politician who underwent an ideological pumping course in the United States and even married to an American, a former employee of the State Department, and on the other hand, by a “Donetsk” candidate, representing a platform that is not very clear, but vaguely passed off as pro-Russian. The latter circumstance contained both strengths and weaknesses of the position held by Viktor Yanukovych. His convictions were immediately recalled, and there is nothing surprising in this.
First conviction
The first of them took place back in 1967 (then the future president was only seventeen). The term was three years, according to article 141 part 2 (robbery). The group nature of the committed crime served as an aggravating circumstance. In other words, the young "gopniks" operated as part of the "Pivnovka" brigade. Just one such episode would put an end to a further political career somewhere in Belgium, Great Britain or the USA, and in the USSR too. The term was halved, the prisoner Yanukovych behaved approximately, did not go into denial, cooperated with the administration and by all indicationsembarked on the path of correction, but in the Land of Soviets he, at best, had to join the ranks of the “Lenin University of millions.”
Second conflict with the law
It's harder with the second conviction. The offense was de alt with for nine months, which was rare. The fact is that the events that led to the bodily injuries of the victim were interpreted ambiguously. According to one version, the defendant stood up for the girl, giving the presumptuous hooligans an active rebuff. According to another, exaggerated by the opposition, the matter was quite different. He didn't defend, he attacked. He did not defend, but generally raped. Who was beaten at the same time is not specified.
Be that as it may, the pre-election biography of Viktor Yanukovych did not contain data on criminal records, they were both canceled, and, therefore, according to the law, the candidate is the same citizen as everyone else. He atoned for the sins of society.
Education
Judging by official titles and diplomas, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is a very enlightened person. After serving his term of imprisonment, the young man did not go down the "crooked path", but studied at the Mining Technical School, located in his native Enakievo. After graduating in 1973, he did not stop in his pursuit of knowledge, but only paused. Seven years later, he could show a diploma of higher education issued at the Donetsk Polytechnic Institute.
It was fashionable to scold the Soviet higher school at one time, until new times came, and it turned out that it was not so bad. In the post-Soviet period, Viktor Yanukovych continued to increase hiseducational level, but it is obvious that the Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade, which he graduated in 2001 with a degree in International Law, hardly enriched him with anything other than a beautiful piece of paper. He also wrote his dissertation when he was governor, and, most likely, not on his own.
The value of his academic titles is also low. The leaders of the Transport Academy of Ukraine and the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine, in which he became a corresponding member and an active member, respectively, committed actions of a clearly sycophantic nature, but in our times this is not such a grave sin.
Yanukovych has another honorary academic position at a mysterious university called the California International Academy of Science, Education, Industry and the Arts. He is also an academician there. There is a position, but no one knows the academy itself, perhaps they invented it altogether.
Judging by the number of publications, VF Yanukovych is an outstanding writer and scientist. He wrote himself and co-authored fifty books and scientific papers. The evil oppositionists provided two or three excerpts from his manuscripts, demonstrating that Viktor Fedorovich was not very good with grammar (for example, he wrote the word "professor" with two "f"). Well, only those who do nothing do not make mistakes. Moreover, the political opponents themselves, perhaps, would not have passed the spelling exam “with excellent marks”.
Leading experience
The biography of Viktor Yanukovych as a leader began intwenty-six years of age. In 1976, he was the director of the ATP VO Ordzhonikidzeugol. According to the version of all the same oppositionists, he almost sat down again for theft. It is unlikely that these rumors deserve attention, in those years the OBKhSS did not eat bread for free, especially since the director, who had a criminal record, was under special supervision. At least, throughout the second half of the 70s, Viktor Fedorovich was in charge of enterprises, which in those years testified to outstanding personal qualities (well, not a member of the CPSU, and even with a criminal record). Two decades of administrative experience were given to the future president by Ukrugolpromtrans, Donbastransremont and the Donetskavtotrans association.
Career breakthrough occurred in 1996, when Yanukovych was noticed in the Donetsk regional administration and appointed its deputy chairman.
President's wife
The future president of Ukraine started a family early, he was then in his 22nd year. Viktor Yanukovych's wife, nee Nastenko, also comes from a simple working-class family. They met while studying at the institute and got married in 1971. During the Orange Revolution, Lyudmila Alexandrovna supported her husband, repeatedly spoke at rallies, with inimitable sincerity and emotionality. At present, the spouses live separately, but they are undoubtedly connected by good relations, the basis of which is their jointly raised sons.
Sons
Children of Viktor Yanukovych, and there are two of them, people are adults and self-sufficient. The eldest son, Alexander, was born in 1973, graduated from two universities (medical and economic), andeventually became a businessman. The fact that he was helped in the successful conduct of business by the administrative resources provided by his father, no one doubts, however, it is difficult to condemn the parental impulse of Viktor Fedorovich.
The youngest son, Victor, was born in 1981. He is a well-known race car driver who has participated in many difficult and dangerous rallies, the conditions of which did not imply preferential conditions for the sons of presidents. In addition, he is a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Information battle
The biography of Viktor Yanukovych would hardly have aroused such keen interest if it were not for the information war that his political opponents unleashed against him. The fourth president of Ukraine hesitated for a long time, choosing the vector of the future development of the state entrusted to him. It was difficult to call him a pro-Russian protege, but at the moment when he, having weighed all the pros and cons, nevertheless preferred cooperation with the Customs Union, the pro-Western leaders of the Maidan seized power by force.
About where Viktor Yanukovych was hiding and how he ended up on the territory of the Russian Federation, little is known today, but he escaped, apparently fearing for his own life. His property immediately became the subject of public scrutiny. Discussing and flaunting the luxury that belonged to the president, the opposition prudently divert attention from their own possessions, acquired during their time in power. Following the annexation of Crimea toRussia's information war does not allow hope for objective media coverage of events related to the rule of Yanukovych, at least in the near future.
