The demonstrations that became known as the EuroMaidan Revolution started on Nov. 21, 2013. Michael Andersen was on Independence Square in Kyiv that night. And he did not have much faith in it.
The Maidan Revolution is one of the most awe inspiring demonstrations of civic activism that I can remember in all of my fifty odd years. Living in Northern Ireland and coming from the Unionist community we are no strangers to protests - some of my acquaintances protested at a Church about marching down a road for over ten years, and of course there have been many movements here in our civic society.
But I cannot think of a movement just as consequential for a nation - one which was able to successfully able to make the ruling class really take notice and which changed the course of a nation back towards freedom and away from tyranny.
Itβs what makes it so infuriating that the absolute worst people, living in the safety of the west with all the benefits that bestows on you have the gall to talk about CIA backing and western backed colour revolutions, giving the credit to the heroes who made it happen is something they refuse to do and it makes me sick
Sitting in the safety of Canada, living a life of unimaginable safety and luxury to 96% of people in the world and 99.99999999% of people in human history, and using that privilege to lazily dismiss the heroism of people fighting just for a taste of the life you take for granted, itβs truly vile. Politics was so much better before 2016 when Facebook alerted a bunch of people like you that this thing called politics existed, it would be better for everyone if all of you went back to watching American Idol or whatever it was you used to fill your time with and left politics to the grown ups. We donβt need people in the west doing Putins bidding, I prefer living in a society with wealth and freedom, if you love the poverty and lack of freedom of Russia so much, just move there and stop trying to make the west as poor and weak as Russia
The Maidan Revolution is one of the most awe inspiring demonstrations of civic activism that I can remember in all of my fifty odd years. Living in Northern Ireland and coming from the Unionist community we are no strangers to protests - some of my acquaintances protested at a Church about marching down a road for over ten years, and of course there have been many movements here in our civic society.
But I cannot think of a movement just as consequential for a nation - one which was able to successfully able to make the ruling class really take notice and which changed the course of a nation back towards freedom and away from tyranny.
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Great story. What a time it must have been! Slava Ukraini.
I knew very little about how Ukraine broke away from Russia. Thank you for filling us in.
Itβs what makes it so infuriating that the absolute worst people, living in the safety of the west with all the benefits that bestows on you have the gall to talk about CIA backing and western backed colour revolutions, giving the credit to the heroes who made it happen is something they refuse to do and it makes me sick
Great comedy, guys.
Sitting in the safety of Canada, living a life of unimaginable safety and luxury to 96% of people in the world and 99.99999999% of people in human history, and using that privilege to lazily dismiss the heroism of people fighting just for a taste of the life you take for granted, itβs truly vile. Politics was so much better before 2016 when Facebook alerted a bunch of people like you that this thing called politics existed, it would be better for everyone if all of you went back to watching American Idol or whatever it was you used to fill your time with and left politics to the grown ups. We donβt need people in the west doing Putins bidding, I prefer living in a society with wealth and freedom, if you love the poverty and lack of freedom of Russia so much, just move there and stop trying to make the west as poor and weak as Russia