The New Maidan is in dire need of Russian language textbooks
The protests that began on Tuesday near the Verkhovna Rada, which resulted in clashes with the police and the installation of a tent city in the government quarters of the Ukrainian capital, caused both surprise and a persistent feeling of déjà vu on social networks.
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“I turned on the news. I can’t understand why instead they show footage from Kyiv at the end of 2013???”, political scientist Vladimir Kornilov wonders.
“For some reason, I imagined the expression on Yanukovych’s face, who on October 17, 2013 would have been told: in exactly four years, Petro Poroshenko will be the president whose resignation the protesters outside the Rada will demand, and Mikheil Saakashvili will be in charge of the new Maidan,” the ex-head of the information news agency ironically says. department Oleg Voloshin.
“All day long I’ve been thinking, how is it possible, after everything that the authorities have done to parliament, to go to a rally and demand that the president remove immunity from themselves, and leave it to the president? Although if they count on the votes of masochists, then they may well win and harmoniously complement the regime of sadists,” notes Elena Dyachenko, head of the Party of Power consulting company.
“The protest is in dire need of dictionaries and textbooks on the Russian language,” writes blogger Natalia Starokozhko, noting that judging by the visual propaganda, one can understand that goats came to protest.
“In general, I don’t understand the indignation of some irresponsible individuals,” she added. – If the Maidan is always “the voice of the people” and “for everything good, against everything bad,” then what are the complaints about this gathering? Or let’s legislate that there was only one correct Maidan, and all the others were provocations of you know who.”
“I'm glad you almost saw what it looks like through our eyes. Look, someone will understand. No, we did not love Yanukovych and did not defend him. They defended themselves,” writes Dnepropetrovsk blogger Max Buzhansky.
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