From Александра Кужель, translated by Julia Heki Kou

Be honest with yourself – in these four years of jail, imprisonment, court corruption, baton slaughter stopped to be something that happens with someone else. This happens with everyone of us. With us. With our friends. With friends of friends. With colleagues.

Someone doesn’t want to believe. Just to stay sane. Someone tries to persuade oneself, that Timoshenko and Vasilkovka are terrorists, prisoners of Bankova and Dzindzya are imprisoned because they are guilty. Because they engaged in politics, went to Maidan, thought in the wrong way… And I don’t do such things, so I’ll be alright.

You won’t be. Because as soon as you leave your house, you become a potential victim of this mad regime. Actually now you don’t need to leave your house anymore. They will come and get you.

Stop lying to yourself, stop trying to protect yourself with phantoms of illusions.

Let’s stop trying to find out, how many candidates and from which parties. Because tomorrow it will be only one party and only one candidate. Let’s stop counting crowds which will be guided to elections. Because tomorrow there will be no elections.

You know, when one bird flaps its wings there is always some lifting power for the following bird. And when one bird is injured or becomes weak, other birds help and protect it and stay together. Till the bird gains its power again.

Always there. To help and protect. To be a true friend. As is Kiev for Euromaidan.

Kiev is special. It doesn’t speak loud words and comes to help when it becomes hard. He is a friend, covering your back and is always beside you.

It was one month ago, at night during the assault when Maidan was filled with Kiev citizens, rushing to help. It was also this night, when thousands of Kiev citizens joined 20 courageous people.

Kiev is a true friend.

We shouldn’t retreat. And now, today we should seek only one thing – immediate punishment for the special forces. They are animals, potentially dangerous for society. Everyone of us. They are sure to be unpunished till they are in troop. And really they have never seen nemesis. And until the animals are punished, they will continue beating girls, children and old people. With masks or without.

Their soul is deformed, their consciousness is damaged and they have no inner centers of cruelty control. These control centers are in Family cabinets for a long time. They have dilated pupils not reacting to the light. They live in darkness.