Ukraine - June 5, 2014

The case of the Ukraine oligarch Rinat Ajmétov

Neither “pro-russian” nor “pro-european”:
The Ukrainian bourgeoisie has only businesses with everyone The capital has no fatherland

Rinat Ajmétov is one of the richest mans of the ex-URSS and Europe. He is the owner of the mines where the Lugansk and Donetsk workers got into strike in late April. He is also owner of steelworks and factories of the East, from the metallurgical complex of Azovstal and Illich, from the wagons factory and locomotives from Azovmach that export almost every one of their products to Rusia; from Donbass Palace, the most luxurious hotel of the East of Ukraine; and the football club Shajtar Donetsk.
As every Ukrainian millionaire, he has funded the campaign of politics in charge to represent their interests. That way, Ajmétov was one of the men of Yanukovich’s entourage, the deposed Ukraine president.

Ajmetov, terrorized by the strikes of the mine workers from Lugansk and Donetsk, and for the uprisings of the masses from the East that question the private property in the entire territory, didn’t hesitate in going to sleep as “pro-Russian” and get up as “pro-European”, after guaranteeing his businesses with the IMF and the World Bank of reconversion of his entire mines and steelworks.

Because of this, this oligarch, yesterday “pro-Russian” and supported of Yanukovich, soon became a champion of the Kiev government, and started to claim for “peace” and disarming of the “pro-Russian terrorists”.
In all his factories at mid-day, he started to ring the “peace siren” and urged the workers of his industries to rally for it. Not being satisfied with this, in the city of Mauripol, he formed “teams of civil protection”, composed by two cops and eight workers, with the excuse of “stopping lootings and any provocation that can turn into more violence”.

Ajmetov and his deeds is only another proof that the national bourgeoisie and oligarchy (as any dominant class) has no fatherland or flag, only businesses and properties to defend.