{"id":1309914,"date":"2025-10-22T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/even-stalin-understood-this-whats-wrong-with-the-kudrytsky-affair\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:31:11","slug":"even-stalin-understood-this-whats-wrong-with-the-kudrytsky-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/even-stalin-understood-this-whats-wrong-with-the-kudrytsky-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Stalin Got It: What\u2019s Wrong with the \u201cKudrytsky Affair\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em>
\nAmid morning missile and drone strikes on the energy sector, thoughts turn to the searches and criminal case against former Ukrenergo head Volodymyr Kudrytskyi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kudrytsky is a highly skilled specialist with extensive connections in the energy sector, currently involved in a large-scale international energy project. I fail to understand why his expertise and network shouldn\u2019t be leveraged now.<\/p>\n

Kudrytsky himself highlights<\/a> the absurdity of being prosecuted for “deforestation,” while people online joke about him carrying an axe. Yet even if our State Intelligence Service were independent and fair (and society knows very well what kind of agency it is), this is no reason to disperse valuable experts.<\/p>\n

And there are many such examples.<\/p>\n

After the October Uprising, the Soviet authorities recruited \u201cspecialists\u201d to work in state institutions\u2014skilled professionals who had been educated before 1917 but whose expertise was urgently needed by the state.<\/p>\n\t\t