Posted on 11/19/2005 3:01:07 AM PST by mym
KIEV, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Almost half of Ukrainians have a negative view of the "orange revolution" and its consequences, according to a survey conducted November 15-17 by the Ukrainian center for regional information issues.
Of those polled, 47.7% gave a negative response, 23.2% had a positive view, and 26.5% considered the events to be both positive and negative. The remaining 2.6% were undecided.
A total of 1,450 people were polled in various Ukrainian regions.
Anniversary celebrations of the "orange revolution" will be held at Maidan Square in Kiev November 22, one year after thousands of opposition supporters rallied in the square to protest election fraud during the presidential run-off.
"Positive and Negative?", that's a new one. Sounds like this gag, Q: Are you indecisive? A: Well, yes and no.
I don't like the idea of such similar people living in seperate countries. Ukraine and Belarus and Poland should all be part of Russia. After all they are all Slavs. And all the Yugoslav countries should be one country. Big countries whose people are united are always better than small countries, economically and militarily and politically. Imagine how much worse off the US would be if all the states were seperate countries.
RIA Novosti? It sounds like Russian propaganda.
A hundred years ago the German states combined to form a single Germany. Before then they were piss poor, and when they united they became a economic and military power. England/Scotland/Wales also united, and are now better off than ever. I bet there are more cultural differences between someone from Texas and someone from Boston than there are between someone from Ukraine and someone from Russia, so why keep them seperate?
Uh, no.
Historically, Russian domination of Ukraine has always meant oppression of Ukrainian culture and its language. Both exist only because of the separation of Ukraine (Left Bank and Right Bank): When Left Bank Ukrainians were oppressed, those on the Right Bank usually were not, and vice versa. When Ukrainian literature was banned in the Russian Empire, it continued to be developed because of the activities of Ukrainian writers living under Polish rule (which had its own times of oppression of Ukrainian culture).
The comparison with Germany is not a good one. German principalities were far smaller, with far less population than say, Poland, Ukraine or Russia.
On the poll which is the topic thread theme, everyone should keep in mind that most Ukrainians were not enthusiastic Yushchenko supporters. They knew they were replacing one set of bandits with another. They just object to the blatant corruption attempted in installing Yanukovich.
This is an old map.
My post is about nowaday.
==RIA Novosti? It sounds like Russian propaganda.==
RIA Novosti is one of the most respected news agencies of the world.
http://en.rian.ru/
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