Mikola Khalezin: «We’ll see who is opposition and whom the country belongs to»

“At my estimate, the number people who can be labelled “destructive elements” are exactly the same that the KGB head said. The only point the KGB head and me differ on is that we disagree on names of the people. If speak about those, who dislike the state policy today, it will be, at my guess, about 80 per cent of the population. But the real configuration is: these 80 per cent want 1767 destructive elements to be divested of power,” Mikola Khalezin, famous playwright, director of the Free Theatre said in the interview to the Charter’97 press center.

In Khalezin’s view, the situation in the country reminds “a working steam boiler without a relief valve.” “And however much the authorities are saying their mantras on economic wellbeing and political stability, they will remain just mantras. Actually, the deepening economic crisis will soon change my and the KGB head’s guesses about the number into real number. Ant them we’ll see who is opposition, and whom the country really belongs to. In my view, it’s careless to reduce everything to simple mechanisms. Opposition, authorities, grants – it was said for the people who don’t understand anything in the current situation. But the reality is: the opposition is offering its hand to try to find a way out of the situation, but the acting authorities lay stones in it again and again,” the playwright thinks.