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Bohdan Vitvitsky: Mentality, Ukraine’s past and Mr. Vakarchuk
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, the lead vocalist of Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy.
It is difficult to build social trust with such a legacy of deformities. But as with any other pathology, the first step requires publicly identifying the problem, grasping its historical roots, and then explicitly rejecting the past and honestly committing to a future. Thankfully, Ukraine is no longer isolated. Now comes the hard part: challenging moral degradation, challenging and rejecting virtuality, and rebuilding almost from scratch the Ukrainian legal system.
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