After reading the comments to my post about the "halo" event in HAB, I decided to write another post in order to comment on my position.
Western sponsors, recommending continuing reforms in Ukraine, as I have already written, see these reforms in the form of an army of new officials.
The fact that such a reform option is very pleasing to our establishment is understandable: we are a country of triumphant bureaucrats. But the fact that Western experts offer this kind of path to our authorities provokes, to put it mildly, outrage.
I would like to remind you something. To be brief, I will only touch on three aspects of the problem: security agencies, the prosecutor's office, judicial reform and anti-corruption structures.
In no civilized world is there such a structure as our MIA. Little of. From the point of view, for example, US citizenship, such a structure violates the US Constitution, since there is an illegal concentration of power in the same hands. The whole experience of civilized countries says: all the army structures can not be under the same command. There is always competition between the state police, the county police, the city police and the FBI. If someone in the United States tried to unite all these structures in the same vertical of power, even without border guards and firemen, he would have jailed, for usurping power. And in Ukraine, not all army structures, including firefighters and border guards, and also, Natsgvardiyu, are under the same command. This is a flagrant violation of the principles of democracy. Only the total decentralization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the total rejection of central government is able to change the situation. Until then, all reforms - a fiction.
The same goes for the prosecutor's office. The current model of the prosecutor's office was created by Stalin to implement his power. This model will NEVER work for democracy. Prosecutors should be elected at the regional level, and the Office of the Attorney-General should deal with extremely limited issues. In this form, the Prosecutor's Office will NEVER be reformed.
As for the judiciary, everything is just as bad here. Yes, in the countries of the West and the United States, the majority of judges today are appointed by the executive. However, if we turn to the history of the issue, we will see that in these countries, after the liquidation of the royal power, the judges were universally elected. So it was in England and the USA. And only after the strengthening of democratic institutions, the judges began to be appointed. But, by the way, till now, not everywhere. In our country, in the absence of a real system of control over the judiciary, the only way to judicial reform is to elect judges, and the mandatory introduction of a jury trial. Without this, all reasoning about judicial reform is a lie.
And, finally, the issue of combating corruption. The only reason for corruption in our country: the total bureaucratization of our lives. Instead of transferring the functions of management and control to society and business, we are offered a new class of officials. Yes, today's EU is a corrupt structure. Not such, of course, as our country, but the problem of corruption there is very acute. And those methods of fighting corruption that European officials are offering us, in fact, do not work well and they. But they will not work at all..
Only a radical reduction in the functions of state control and state administration, only the introduction of personal responsibility of an official to society, and not to a higher-ranking official, can change the situation. All the rest is FALSE!.
What is happening now is a price for refusing to reduce the role of officials after the Maidan. There are no patriotic officials, good officials, and so on.. The situation for Ukraine is simple: either we liquidate the lion's share of the powers of officials, or we will turn into a flawed version of Putin's Russia. And if at the same time, officials will shout in unison: "Glory to Ukraine! " nothing will change.