“Leaving a man who ordered the murder of dozens of protesters in power was a bitter pill . . . the crowds on Independence Square refused, and Yanukovych was forced to flee. It was the mob, and especially the right-wing groups like Praviy Sektor, who led, and the leadership who followed. Putin was humiliated, and he was given the pretext for claiming that Ukraine had fallen to a ‘fascist coup’ as a justification, however flimsy, for rejecting the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government.”
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:11:50 +0000
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