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>>When you live under a corrupt system, it is easy to find scapegoats.<<

Bingo. But the answer is not a revolution once or twice each decade.
Ukrainians need to wise up.
Changing one cronies with another doesn’t help much.
We have witnessed tyrannies and crony governments evolving into powerful republics in this century and it wasn’t via revolutions.
Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea - all started after WWII the way Ukraine, Latvia and the rest of these did in 1990.
Where is Singapore and where is Ukraine now?
The lesson is poor people aren’t really interested in freedoms. They would either sell liberty for a dime or give it away to populists promising hope and change.
That is what we see in Ukraine right now.
They are about to rejects a Russian deal bearing a real capabilities to sustained economic growth for a “change” of their corrupt elites with who knows who for a “hope” of European integration. Sounds familiar, isn’t it?

>>>> Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea - all started after WWII the way Ukraine, Latvia and the rest of these did in 1990. Where is Singapore and where is Ukraine now?

My dad said they should've cleaned the apparatchiks offices with a Kalashnikov in 1991, start with new people, like in Chech Republic. But no, they went with "stability" that the old communists supposedly offered. Ukraine looks very stable about now

Wrong. The interviews I’ve seen border more on the “tired of having a corrupt government completely unanswerable to the People and largely only for the benefit of politically connected interests”.

Yanukovych has been consolidating power under his Presidency and acting a bit like A Dictator backed with Moscow money.

Sound familiar?