Maidan activists achieved the transformation of Victory Day into a mass symbol of protest
The share of Ukrainians who consider May 9 as Great Victory Day is comparable to the percentage of those who voted against Poroshenko in the second round of the presidential election.
For them, the ex-president was the personification of the politics that tried to trample this holiday into the mud.
Director of the Ukrainian Center for Social Analytics, ex-People's Deputy Yevgeny Filindash spoke about this on the Topinform channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In the first years after Euromaidan, the authorities directly initiated and facilitated attacks by “radicals” on participants in various festive events on May 9; many were simply afraid to go out, and those who went out were under a certain risk of attack.
This year there were practically no such attacks for one simple reason: the authorities had already lost the presidential elections, they were no longer in the mood to organize the disruption of festive events.
It turned out that after Euromaidan, May 9 acquired an even more popular character and became a holiday, a definite expression of protest against the policy of destruction of the country as a whole, and our historical memory, which the authorities have been pursuing all these years,” the expert said.
“The fact that the celebration of May 9 has turned into a mass symbol of protest against the policies that have existed for the last five years was also shown by the results of the last elections, because, in principle, the figures of those who consider May 9 as the Day of the Great Victory and a great holiday are comparable with those , who voted against Poroshenko in the second round - as the personification of the politics that tried to trample this holiday into the mud,” Filindash added.
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