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Title: Communal wars Author: Rev Dia Date: 12 November 2019 Language: en Topics: Ukraine, community anti-capitalism, taxes Source: Retrieved on 26th January 2022 from a translation of https://revdia.org/2019/11/12/komunalni-vijni/
Winter is near — tariffs are beginning to rise. Cases of clashes with
representatives of housing and communal services and the police due to
non-payment of utilities are becoming more frequent.
Most recently in Boguslav (Kyiv region), police, along with public
utilities, searched the apartment of a local woman. They suspected that
she was “stealing” water, electricity and heat from the general grid.
The brave woman was not confused and attacked the police with a gas
canister.
There are many such cases of self-resistance to high tariffs. People are
trying to deceive the system and save on tariffs: some simply do not
pay, some put magnets, and some connect to the general network. This is
not surprising, because tariffs, especially in winter, have long
exceeded the minimum wage and continue to grow rapidly.
It often leads to radical actions. In particular, last year the man
independently destroyed several offices of Kyivenerho.
The system manages to successfully deal with isolated cases of
resistance. Unfortunately, despite the huge tariffs, most people
continue to tolerate this arbitrariness. And officials continue to tell
their usual tales about the difficult economic situation and the
tightening of belts. But we understand that our main economic problem is
the huge and greedy apparatus of officials who make their fortunes on
our poverty.