People forget that there was an earlier revolution, also against Yanukovich, called the Orange Revolution. It was a big deal in its day. I came to Kyiv the first time in the summer of 2004, and I took a walk with a friend that I met in Moscow in 1992. She and I strolled along Institutka and she explained to me that Kuchma was going to do the same thing that the Russians did when Yeltsin retired and Putin replaced him. Kuchma would arrange for Yanukovich to become the next President of Ukraine. It didn't happen that way, because Ukraine rose up against a rigged election.
I returned to Kyiv in the summer of 2005 to live in Ukraine for the next ten years. Everyone that summer talked about their time in the square, the same exact square where the Maidan Revolution occurred ten years later. We cannot forget that the Ukrainian people rebelled against Putin and his chosen thug, Yanukovich, twice. When Russian supporters talk about a coup against the elected President, they forget that Ukraine never wanted this criminal. He was widely hated, and I said it then about the election to a friend who favored Russia. The Ukrainian people didn't want Tymoshenko more than they didn't want Yanukovich. I thought it was a fair election. But the office of President is not a permanent position: it comes with responsibility.
People forget today that the man who rebuilt Yanukovich's reputation and image was Paul Manafort, the man who later became the campaign manager for Donald Trump. The problem for both Manafort and Yanukovich was that Manafort got Yanukovich elected, but he didn't train him how to govern.
As the Chinese would say, he lost the Mandate of Heaven. There was no coup; I was there all through the Maidan Revolution. I was downtown on the night when the Heavenly Hundred were murdered in the Square. I wasn't there in the square, but I made my way through a park where there was another demonstration against Yanukovich.
Many people say that this was a CIA coup, but they never offer any evidence for this claim, because there is no evidence. The entire country rose up against Yanukovich and drove him from the country. It was a wide spread rebellion fueled by the same energy that we see today as Ukrainian troops fight against the Russian army. Ukrainians were fed up with Putin's surrogate, and they want to be free. It's that simple. Ukraine demands to be free.
People forget that there was an earlier revolution, also against Yanukovich, called the Orange Revolution. It was a big deal in its day. I came to Kyiv the first time in the summer of 2004, and I took a walk with a friend that I met in Moscow in 1992. She and I strolled along Institutka and she explained to me that Kuchma was going to do the same thing that the Russians did when Yeltsin retired and Putin replaced him. Kuchma would arrange for Yanukovich to become the next President of Ukraine. It didn't happen that way, because Ukraine rose up against a rigged election.
I returned to Kyiv in the summer of 2005 to live in Ukraine for the next ten years. Everyone that summer talked about their time in the square, the same exact square where the Maidan Revolution occurred ten years later. We cannot forget that the Ukrainian people rebelled against Putin and his chosen thug, Yanukovich, twice. When Russian supporters talk about a coup against the elected President, they forget that Ukraine never wanted this criminal. He was widely hated, and I said it then about the election to a friend who favored Russia. The Ukrainian people didn't want Tymoshenko more than they didn't want Yanukovich. I thought it was a fair election. But the office of President is not a permanent position: it comes with responsibility.
People forget today that the man who rebuilt Yanukovich's reputation and image was Paul Manafort, the man who later became the campaign manager for Donald Trump. The problem for both Manafort and Yanukovich was that Manafort got Yanukovich elected, but he didn't train him how to govern.
As the Chinese would say, he lost the Mandate of Heaven. There was no coup; I was there all through the Maidan Revolution. I was downtown on the night when the Heavenly Hundred were murdered in the Square. I wasn't there in the square, but I made my way through a park where there was another demonstration against Yanukovich.
Many people say that this was a CIA coup, but they never offer any evidence for this claim, because there is no evidence. The entire country rose up against Yanukovich and drove him from the country. It was a wide spread rebellion fueled by the same energy that we see today as Ukrainian troops fight against the Russian army. Ukrainians were fed up with Putin's surrogate, and they want to be free. It's that simple. Ukraine demands to be free.
I agree with you fully on this.
Too many captured by Russian propaganda. Truth hard to arrive.