The new version of the video from the Straight line: Oleksandr Suprunyuk / Олександр Супрунюк. Інтерв‘ю з Майдану"
Our group Straight line conducted a long interview at the end of March with
Oleksandr Suprunyuk a 51-year-old construction-company
owner from Netishyn town, Khmelnytsky region. He has been an
organizer and participant of many initiatives for many years, in orange
revolution 2004, in Avtomajdan, etc. He was from the first
days on the Maidan in november last year. He has been heavily
involved in Majdan tents and was a member of the 38th division of
the protesters’ defense force (Sotnya).
You certainly saw many images on the Internet about Majdan. There
are images of actions and some short and spontaneous interviews of people. We
wanted to do a serious interview, to provide a moment of reflection to the
outsiders of Majdan,
but also to the
participants themselves.
but also to the
participants themselves.
The event of Majdan is unique and fabulous. At the same time, Majdan has
many things in common with other protests in Europe, Arab countries and the
world. We now understand that in recent years, an urban riot can
occur in any country. The insurrectional fact is a reality.
occur in any country. The insurrectional fact is a reality.
But in each insurrection, rebellion stops at a given time, sometimes before
the fall of the government, sometimes after its fall. This is a crucial
question whether the Majdan still exists or not, and how. We think it is
important to see Majdan as a process. To see Majdan as a process, one must
understand that the riot does not stop when there is a new government. Some
people see Majdan as a parenthesis or a dream. We see Majdan as a wonderful
self-organizing experience. Experience that participants and observers should
see the full legitimacy. Many analysts, politicians, intelligentsia, actual
power seek to hide somehow this experience, the experience of the people. The
experiences of people are usually disqualified as insufficiently elaborated,
naïve, hierarchically inferior, knowledge that are below the required level of
erudition and scientificity.
In Straight line, we want to reveal their existence by using different
tools. We wanted to group together and put in the same category, on the one
hand meticulous, precise, technical protest analysis and, on the other,
singular, local knowledge, the noncommonsensical knowledges that people have
and which have been kept in the margins. In others words, we do a meticulous
rediscovery of struggles and a raw history of fights. The aim is to use that in
contemporary tactics.
In all Europe, we are connected with political communities organize
themselves and act daily. With this experience and skills, we formulated
questions for the interview.
The Majdan has given rise to many interpretations and rewrites. It has
already become a highly contested memorial issue. This interview is a testament
to the Majdan inside tents. Its sheds light on the present.
Read the text of the interview: http://straightline-eng.blogspot.com/2014/05/oleksandr-suprunyuk-interview-from.html
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