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But should we incite revolution in a country, making things much worse in the process, destroying economies and the unity of a country for such a reason?

Revolution always makes things worse before they get better...




Unity could be restored by the rest of the country joining them, the revolution could be ended by the president resigning.

Revolution always makes things worse before they get better...

Yes, sadly. And the outcome of this is unclear. But I can't blame them for trying. As they say, better an end with terror than terror without end. They are risking their lives not just out of sheer boredom or greed, but because they have been pushed into a corner and saw no other way out.


All I have to say is that there's a reason Yushchenko was voted out of office so unceremoniously.... The rest of the country won't join the protests because they don't want a government consisting of Fatherland and Svoboda...


Oh yeah, the claim that it's all just a bunch of right-wing extremists, I already wondered why that hasn't been trotted out yet.

http://avtonomia.net/2014/01/23/awu-statement-current-politi...

> Over the last days not only the far right confront the government, but also people of more moderate views. And they constitute the majority of the protesters. Many of them are indifferent to nationalism or negatively predisposed to it. Many of them don’t support integration into the EU. People go into the streets to protest against police violence. And a significant part of them is unenthusiastic or even skeptical about the clashes in the Grushevskogo street. Often one can hear that right radicals are a “Trojan horse” of Yanukovych and special services, designed to discredit the protest. Certainly there would be many more Kievites participating in the protests if there was a way to take those idiots useful to the government out of the streets.

also: http://observers.france24.com/content/20140127-protests-grow...




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