{"id":1361820,"date":"2026-02-24T10:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/12-years-of-shame-why-the-executioners-of-the-maidan-are-still-on-bankova-street\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:53:20","slug":"12-years-of-shame-why-the-executioners-of-the-maidan-are-still-on-bankova-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/12-years-of-shame-why-the-executioners-of-the-maidan-are-still-on-bankova-street\/","title":{"rendered":"12 years of shame: why the executioners of the Maidan are still on Bankova Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

February. Candles and lamps. Especially many of them are lit these days on Instytutska. Again the mournful faces of officials in expensive coats. Again pathetic speeches about ideals, freedom, and the price paid by the Heavenly Hundred in 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I feel unbearably, burningly ashamed.<\/p>\n

It’s a shame, because exactly 12 years after snipers reaped a bloody harvest on the cobblestones, we woke up in a country where the ideals of the Revolution of Dignity have not just been betrayed – they have been cynically trampled under the boots of the new-old government. Those who should be rotting in prisons for building a dictatorship and the blood of students are now sitting in the highest offices of the Office of the President.<\/p>\n

We made a revolution, lost the Heavenly Hundred, and survived decades of Muscovy’s war against us only to discover in 2026 that the country is ruled by the same pro-Russian, cynical cop scumbag that the people revolted against. And this scumbag has a very specific name, surname, and position.<\/p>\n

Oleg Tatarov: a symbol of absolute revenge<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It is impossible to talk about the betrayal of the ideals of the Maidan without talking about Oleg Tatarov. Half of this text is dedicated to him not because he is just an official. But because he is the diagnosis of the disease that has devoured our state. He is alive, smiling and endowed with absolute power to spit on every grave of the Heavenly Hundred.<\/p>\n

Let’s remember who this is.<\/p>\n\n

In 2013-2014, Oleg Tatarov was not just a “policeman”. He was the face of the punitive machine of Vitaly Zakharchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. It was he, as the top speaker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who went to briefings and lied in front of the whole country. He justified the brutal beating of students. He said that protesters shoot themselves, attack peaceful “Berkut” police officers, kidnap and torture themselves in the forests. He was the architect of the information and legal cover-up of mass murders in the center of Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Then he faithfully served the traitor Yanukovych. Now he serves the traitor Zelensky with the same dogged zeal.<\/p>\n

The fact that Zelensky and Yermak brought this Anti-Maidan figure to Bankova and made him the curator of the entire law enforcement system is not a personnel error, it is clear that it is a conscious choice. This is a demonstration that there is no essential difference between the Yanukovych regime and the Zelensky regime. Only the scenery, the quality of the videos, and the names of the presidents have changed. But the tools of state management have remained 100% Moscow-based.<\/p>\n

Anatomy of a police state: how the system works<\/p>\n

Tatarov didn\u2019t just come back. He built a monster. Today he is the shadow vice president for security affairs. Having no constitutional authority to do so, he single-handedly and manually controls the State Bureau of Investigation, the State Security Bureau, the National Police, and part of the Security Service of Ukraine. This vertical was not created to protect the law or investigate crimes. It is a giant, legalized organized crime group (OCG) that performs three basic functions of Putin\u2019s model of state.<\/p>\n\t\t