Ukraine Today

Nowadays president of Ukraine is a criminal, who's been to jail twice. He grew up in a reaaaaaally bad neighborhood and had his own gang. During his presidentship the corruption grew up enormousley, destroying the economy. Of course corruption was support with implementing more "dictatorship" environment - Mass Media censorship, corrupted judges, increasing a number of police. Later there were elections, where his Party of Regions actually lost it, but due to mass machinations the majority in the parliament was formed by them. Since Kiev hated him and his party they didn't even allow to provide the elections of the mayor! Such policy throughout the whole time made people angry. And in the end it all burst out in mass protests with demand of president's retirement. But the problem is, that after all corruption scandals, and the amounts of time he violated the law he simply cannot go to retirement, because he will be arrested immediately.

That's why his only hope is to destroy the protests... phisically, so that no one would be brave enough to protest (same like in Russia and Belorus). He thought they will end up after his ignoring them, but he was wrong. But the problem is that a lot of poor (lumpen, ochlos) people in the country are easilly manipulated via propaganda and they beleive that it's not a protest against the government, but an attempt of Opposition to come to power (which is partly true). It's not a civil war, it's a battle between people who want to change the government & the system and corrupted policemen. The other side of people do not support protests due to missinformation and naiveness. But they will not fight against them with firearms. That's why it's not a civil war.

The protests were peaceful, but during this time people got arrested for nothing throughout the whole country. Also people simply knew that this man will not go away by himself, but only after showing force. That's why a lot of people didn't support peaceful protests and after 2 months of ineffectiveness it went in a radical scenario as more effective. Of course, as radical as they were, they weren't so dengerous, but police has taken firearms and real granades. How can you shoot in an unarmed man?? But police does this. So it's up to people wether to die under rain of bullets, or get your own...

Also, russian president Vladimir Putin is very nervous. If mass protests win in Ukraine, they might "infect" Russia. Despite the fact, that chances of 'infection' is very low, he demands from Yanukovich to crackdown the protest. That's why Putin supports Yanukovich financially and... with ammunition, millitary and FSB (former KGB) advisers.

Before the Second World war Ukraine was devided between USSR and Poland. Polish (western) part saved its Ukranian identity, and Eastern... well, there was a Great Hunger (Holodomor) artificially made by Stalin to destroy native ukranians and force them to move from villages to the cities. Millions of ukranians have died. Cities were artificially colonized by russians and thus the towns became russian speaking. In such way Stalin wanted ukranians to lose its identity. During the WWII western Ukraine was occupied by USSR, where ukranian nationalists were repressed immediately by Stalin with his old well-known policy. Of course it caused an opression from local ukranians (that did not have this hunger, and saved their identity). And at this time Germans invade USSR. At the beggining Germans used western ukranian hatred to the Soviet Union. Western Ukraine formed nationalistic troops to fight against USSR and form they're own government. But Germans disappointed Westerners too, so this troops started to fight against both the Reich and USSR.
Because of this previous cooperation Soviet propaganda created a stereotipe that all ukranian-speakers are nazis, fascists and etc. Right now government uses this myth to manipulate russian speaking colonizers.

The propaganda is strong, especcially in Russia. East Ukraine as most russian colonized also watches russian TV channels and they think that Ukranian speaking Maidan is filled with Nazi's. But it's the same thing as call all german speaking people - nazi's. But this people do have a bit of nationalism (or rahter say patriotism) - they (and me) want to have a government that supports native ukranian language, history (not in 'soviet style'), heroes and customs, while russian speaking part tends to sympathize to Russia. Nad even desintegrate from Ukraine and integrate russia. But its nothing elese as sympathy, not a real desire, since they are russian speaking, but not with russian identity. They have soviet identity. Oh, yeah, and this poeple with no identity actually form modern Ukranian government. They do not represent ukranian nation. They are post-colonists. That's why they are so corrupted - they simply do not care what will happen with Ukranian government. They pretty much can devide it in to countries, destroy it, and rule in eastern parts where they have more support. And that's why protestors demand to have patriotic Ukranian oriented government (not russian oriented). That's where it is natinalistic, but not in an ordinary eropean understanding. I, for one, is russian speaking, but I am of ukranian identity. And no body cares what language you speak and what color is your skin, but all that is demanded is to tolerate and respect everything 'ukranian'.

How can a president not be a patriot of his country??

And it's pretty sad that EU and other West follows this Nazi propaganda which is formed by russian government.