[wetphoenix]

Anti-Soviet revolution is brewing in Ukraine for decades and nothing of value has come out of it. They are still Soviets, possessed by entitlement mentality, more so than Russians themselves. True motivation behind a ‘European choice’ is a prospects to become an immigrant in EU or have a longer welfare check at home for most of maidanites.
In Russia most people understand that it is not a government and foreign alliances but hard work and free enterprise which makes your wealth.

[musicman]

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[annalex]

Even if so, it would be an improvement compared to Russia where people still march with red banners and enjoy invading their neighbors:

Slogans: "We believe Putin"; "With Crimea against fascism"

But it is not so. The Maidan showed true heroism and genuine desire to get rid of the Soviet past. And the new government is popular everywhere precisely because it is anti-Soviet:

Statues of Lenin liquidated
(The text is "To the Madian heroes").

More here

The population supports the government even in the East:

Demonstration in Severodonetsk.

No question, the desovietization in Ukraine is only beginning. But in Russia the Soviets are on the rise. That is the problem.