Oleg
Marshev, engineer
“We
should wait and save our strength for 2015. And then concentrate on
holding free and fair elections.”
Valentyna
Hotnariuk, pensioner
“We
definitely don’t have to wait. But we need a leader. We need
somebody to lead the nation. I think Tiahnybok is a fighter.”
Mykhailo
Malchyshyn, architect
“I
think we don’t need to wait. But it is hard to talk about the action
plan on my own, there should be a leader to have a plan. I know we
won’t achieve anything with peaceful actions, we should start going
radical. If we use this huge crowd and block the main administrative
buildings until they give in to us, it can help. I would take part
in such radical actions myself if I were sure what it is for.”
Oksana
Merezhko, lawyer
“We
should stop talking and start acting. We need a leader to produce
ideas and lead a nation, which is just a crowd of people that has to
be managed by someone. This what politics is for. I’m not sure who it should be, but I like (Petro) Poroshenko.”
Oksana
Nagorniuk, teacher
“We
have to act, at least do what we’ve been doing for the last two
months. First of all we should keep coming out here and keep
informing people about what really happens in our country. Those who
are against EuroMaidan are just victims of the information war led
against us. They tell us the worst things about the EU, but I’ve been
there on many occasions and I know how people live there. So
informing and protesting are the things we shouldn’t give up on
especially after they adopted these draconian laws.”
Andriy
Gaiduk, university professor
“There is an urgent need of active action right now, before 2015. If we wait there will be no 2015, just an imitation of
democracy, like in Russia. The most effective method is a national
strike, meaning people should keep coming to work but stop doing
there jobs or do them slowly. So there would be no ground for firing
workers but the economy of the country would start losing. There are
a lot of variants – Italian variant, Polish variant, we should
just pick the right one.”
Natalia Nikolcheva, housewife
“Of course we should act right now. First of all we should keep coming out to protest, second – we should appeal to European courts and declare a criminal take-over in the country, and the third – conduct agitation work, so the army of protesters would only increase.”
