Lo scandalo della corruzione in Ucraina è grave. Ma esporlo è una vittoria. La lotta è sempre stata per l’indipendenza di un paese che può chiedere conto ai suoi potenti.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/ukraines-corruption-democracy-accountability/685120/
di Sine_Fine_Belli
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I’ve believed for a long time that places where nobody is getting arrested for corruption are probably the most corrupt. Never sweep it under the rug. It’s functionally identical to actively sheltering the criminals.
The handling of this scandal is important because it signals how serious Ukrainians from all walks of life are when it comes to eradicating the sinister scourge of Russification and its tentacles expressed as the Russian language and Russian “culture”.
However, Russification has been more than just the vulgar elevation of that language and culture at the expense of non-Russian counterparts since it has also entailed the passive absorption or active imposition among non-Russians of the Russians’ nihilistic, cynical, and infantile understanding of the world. Theirs is a deranged and dystopian conviction in which [kratocracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_makes_right), de facto despotism (cf. “[Good Czar, Bad Boyars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Tsar,_bad_Boyars)”), violence, grifting, selfishness, learned helplessness, deceit, and primitive materialism (cf. looting of Ukrainians’ [flush toilets, washing machines, wristwatches, used lingerie](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/11/ukrainian-homes-looted-by-russian-soldiers) etc.) are societal virtues and the foundations for civilization.
Identifying and dealing with corruption is part of the process that is democracy. Unlike Putin’s Ruzzia, where corruption is the norm, democracy is a mask, and accountability is an endangered species.