Posted on 02/26/2014 10:23:48 AM PST by FBD
Snip: ... "Unlike those on the Maidan, no one is prepared to die for the regime of Viktor Yanukovych regime. There will not be a civil war; claims to the contrary are attempts by eastern and Crimean political and economic elites to manipulate the situation to preserve their wealth and local feudal power. Most Ukrainians see this as a war between a dictatorial president and his people... (snip)
....The Maidan, therefore, has not spawned a civil war, but the birth of an authentic Ukrainian civil society. It is the culmination of an agonizing 20-year process of de-Sovietization of Ukrainian society, a process that has progressed faster in some regions than in others. The Maidan is a watershed moment, when the nation shed the mental chains of Soviet paternalism. One opposition leader described the statues of Lenin being spontaneously hauled down around the country as Ukraine’s psychological Berlin Wall. It is characterized by a shift in mentality – a distrust of all of the country’s institutions, including political parties, governing or opposition.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
I think the operative word was *had* supporters. He’s fled, hiding out in some bunker.
Governing against the people has a way of losing their support, if you catch my drift. But when he ordered his Berkut to start shooting people? -That’s when he lost everyone. Think about this: the Ukrainian Parliament voted unanimously; 328-0 to impeach Yanukovich. Would that ever happen in this country?
That would be amazing if the Ukrainian’s added a second amendment, wouldn’t it? Liberals in this country would be besides themselves. :-)
LOL! Not to mention the EUROCRATS - UNaccountable bureaucrats/socialists/totalitarians.
Waiting for American spring BUMP!
I will have to use it for something
Urinal mint?
lol
That’d be a big mint. You must really have to go....
He was referring to the picture of the Lenin statue head.
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