Yanukovych excels in Orwellian doublethink
The party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.’
George Orwell, 1984
On a recent episode of Saturday Night Live, the Ukrainian cleaner, played by the ever excellent Kate McKinnon, jokes that with the US government closed down she is thinking of returning to Ukraine where the government is more ‘stable.’
Ukraine is not only more ‘stable’ but its politics are far more surreal in a manner that befits George Orwell’s well-known novels 1984 and Animal Farm.