Soviet Union legacy: what old state service laws we can't get rid of
Oksana Zabuzhko once told a student at a lecture in her native philosophical school: "If you think you were born in independent Ukraine and have never seen the Soviet Union, you're very wrong. The Soviet Union still lives in each of us, in our thinking, way of life and laws." Then, these words seemed to be just the modern philosopher's thoughts, but when I was involved in the state service, I had to recall them more than once.
We're used to whining that everything is bad in the country and, of course, politicians are to blame. Only political parties change, the political top is headed by different people, unlike neighboring states; we have full ideological pluralism, unfamiliar faces, and nothing helps. As bad as it was, so it remains. Why so?
The fact is that no matter how good the minister, the head of the institution, or even the president is, they fall into the paradigm of the same old system that we inherited from the communist monster.
The philosophy of state service in Ukraine originated in the last century, and communist ideologists prescribed it. Here are some of its dogmas:
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