Whom Sergei Prytula Reminds Me Of

Vladimir Petrov on the Kyiv mayoral candidate.

Yesterday I finally understood whom Kyiv mayoral candidate Serhiy Prytula reminds me of. I heard his "original" statement about "Read the candidates' programs carefully!" and it hit me: guys, he is a political copy of Vova Parasiuk.

Pathos, generalities, playing on sympathy for youth, pseudo-honesty and pseudo-openness, stock slogans.

If he wins, Prytula's future conduct will be an exact copy of Parasiuk's: he will take a salary from a major schemer and start explaining broken promises by outside interference, the courts, corruption and backroom deals that supposedly prevent him from working, even though he really wants to.

Notably, the same crowd that praised Parasiuk, Havryliuk, Sobolev and Semenchenko is praising Prytula on social media. We remember how that disappointment ended, but nobody has cancelled Ukraine's love of stepping on the same rakes.

It is very telling that Prytula, like Parasiuk and the rest of that rabble, refuses to apologize to Vasyl Krutchak for his kolkhoz boorishness.

By the way, the surname Prytula means a wandering drifter who showed up in a village from nowhere and nestled up to a woman, a house or a local kulak just to survive the winter and then move on.