Freedom Square in Kiev, Ukraine. The photograph compares 2009 to 2014
Nolan Peterson, The Daily Signal: 4 Years After the Revolution, Ukraine Still Battles Corruption and Russian Aggression
KYIV, Ukraine—Four years ago this week, central Kyiv resembled a quieted urban battlefield.
Ukraine’s capital city was, at that time, reeling from months of street protests and a revolution in which nearly 130 people died. The city’s central square, the Maidan, was left a charred ruin, still brimming with protester encampments and ad hoc defensive barricades.
Months earlier, in November 2013, protesters first took to the Maidan to oppose a last-minute decision by Ukraine’s then-President Viktor Yanukovych to ditch a trade deal with the European Union in favor of one with Russia.
Yet, when Yanukovych—a Kremlin lackey—launched a brutal police crackdown on the protesters, those pro-European street protests boiled over into a revolution calling for the then-president’s ouster.
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WNU Editor: It is hard to believe that four years has already passed. When I ask my friends and family in Ukraine that knowing what everyone knows now .... would they have supported the revolution (and many of my friends and family did .... including my cousin's daughter who was at the barricades) .... almost all of them say no. As for my cousin's daughter .... she now lives in Miami.
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