Meanwhile in Ukraine

[pepejul]

My french revolutionnaric heart will always beat for the unarmed man on ground VS 5 or more armored and armed guys around him beating him... whoever he is, whatever he did...

not only in Russia or Ukraine...

[Osiris]

Protesters in Ukraine have toppled a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Kiev as hundreds of thousands flooded the capital.

Police said people wearing masks pulled down the statue of the Russian revolutionary leader in the centre of the city.



looks like its kicking up a notch

[Kafein]

Protesters in Ukraine have toppled a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Kiev as hundreds of thousands flooded the capital.

Police said people wearing masks pulled down the statue of the Russian revolutionary leader in the centre of the city.



looks like its kicking up a notch

Wait...

there was still a Lenin statue in the middle of Kiev ? Dafuq

[sF_Guardian]

Funny how every policeman thinks he has to hit the guy one time to be one of the cool guys.
Scumbags...

[Christo]

Wait...

there was still a Lenin statue in the middle of Kiev ? Dafuq

This pretty much, wtf?

I didn't know that o_O

[Logen]

Why not?

[Kafein]

Why not?

I would have guessed that kind of USSR monuments were destroyed in satellite countries during the early nineties.

[Leshma]

Ukraine is not that kind of a country. Ukraine and Russia are quite similar. It's not like relationship Russia has/had with Baltic countries.

[Nessaj]

Over 1 million rally in Kiev:

Guy at the protest:

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They also tore down the Lenin statue (in Kiev):

[Kafein]

Ukraine is not that kind of a country. Ukraine and Russia are quite similar. It's not like relationship Russia has/had with Baltic countries.

The ukrainian urban youth doesn't seem too happy with that though.

[BlindGuy]

They also tore down the Lenin statue (in Kiev):

Good to see that guy doing some nice hard work with that sledgehammer, would have made Lenin proud.

EDIT: on a serious note; what are these lot hoping to achieve at the moment?

[Tibe]

The ukrainian urban youth doesn't seem too happy with that though.

Free yourself from the chains of Russian imperialism! Vive la revol.....oh wait. And ye, they had a Lenin statue. Ukraine and Belarus are basically Russias puppets. As a citizen of an ex-USSR state I cant help but to feel happy for em. That they finally catched a clue.

[Christo]

EDIT: on a serious note; what are these lot hoping to achieve at the moment?

Well they destroyed a Lenin statue, whatever it is, it can't be that bad.

(Release from russia's power grip probably)

[Segd]

Over 1 million rally in Kiev:

10 times more than it was in Russia when Russians asked Putin to GTFO  :(

[Leshma]

The ukrainian urban youth doesn't seem too happy with that though.

Ukrainian youth is jobless, broke and pretty much pissed off. Like youth in every other post soviet country. It's not hard to mobilize them for whatever cause, if you know how to do it.

Leaders of these demonstrations, revolution, whatever, are the same scum as those currently in power. They are doing this to stop being the horse and become a rider instead, for few years to come.

There is no real revolution without blood. Ukrainians already did same shit years before and it didn't work. Same happened in my country and it didn't work. If you want it properly done, some heads gotta roll.

They probably expect their country to move away from Russian influence and go towards Europe but that's not possible because of location and other factors. There are big businesses going through Ukraine, which are controlled by Russians. EU is only doing this to get some leverage in the future, not because they care about Ukrainian people.