Motherhood Quote by Viktor Yushchenko

A politician doesn’t have to mention pensions to make you picture a pensioner, but Yushchenko does it anyway: “mothers and fathers” is a shortcut to moral authority. It turns an economic argument into a family argument, drafting filial loyalty as political fuel. The line is designed to make reform feel less like ideology and more like basic decency: if you can’t secure dignity for the people who raised you, what is the state even for?

The phrasing tightens the screw with a simple bait-and-switch: they “worked all of their lives” yet “live in destitution.” That contrast is the subtextual indictment of a post-Soviet social contract gone rotten, where labor no longer reliably converts into security. It also quietly targets the oligarchic order that flourished amid weak institutions and corruption: someone, somewhere, is collecting the dividends of their work, and it isn’t them.

“Want change” matters, too. It’s not “need” or “deserve,” but “want” - a democratic verb that turns suffering into mandate. Yushchenko frames reform as the will of the most sympathetic constituency imaginable, pre-empting cynicism about self-interested protest. The emotional strategy is to make any opponent sound like they’re arguing with your parents.

Contextually, this fits Yushchenko’s brand in the Orange Revolution era: anti-corruption, pro-European, modernization rhetoric aimed at a public exhausted by instability and capture. The sentence is compact populism with a civic suit on: grievance, virtue, and a promise that the nation can be made to behave like a family that doesn’t abandon its elders.