In diplomacy, well-formulated demands are half the battle.

For example, if the Maidan had only one slogan: "Azarov must resign," Yanukovych would have scratched his head in a day or two – "What the hell, let Azarov go," and signed a decree on his resignation. But as long as the Maidan is driven by slogans like "we want to join the EU" or "we will put an end to lawlessness," the attitude towards it will be accordingly.

But the Maidan is one thing, I understand that expecting coherence from a crowd is naive; that's what political parties are for – to shape the desires of the masses into an idea, an ideology, a goal, and a program of action, and to declare it publicly. The ideology of the Ukrainian opposition (and the Russian one as well) mainly consists of trying to make life miserable for the ruling party.

For comparison, the Bolsheviks had a complete set of ideological tools – from populist theses like "land to the peasants, factories to the workers" to serious scientific works by Marx and his followers. This is partly why they were able to seize and maintain power, and to rebuild the country afterwards – having a goal and a compass motivates both the masses and the elite.

Marx's works were written 60 years before that, and there was a revolution then, not a peaceful one as it is now. If they had demanded the resignation of everyone at once, that would have been a coup. And it is unknown how it would have ended. I repeat, we live in a civilized time when no one needs military action, everyone is trying to negotiate peacefully, as in business and in politics. If it doesn't work peacefully, then... The fact that there is no ideology, no goals, and no leader now does not mean that they will not appear, even if the fire of the Maidan dies down. The process has begun, the will of the people is clear.
Someone wrote about the opinion of the East? Well, I live in the East, there are many people from the East around me, and the most interesting thing is that when they were choosing the Party of Regions, then Yanukovych, everyone wondered how this was possible, no one voted for them, but they won. It seems that they voted FOR from the very East.
If Putin has merits and many years of management experience, then our happiness showed itself even at the stage of political struggle, and after coming to power, it confirmed that the organism called Ukraine is sick with the "family syndrome," and the Maidan is the immune system that is fighting it. And those who are not fighting are either indifferent or just a parasite.

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Snupik, for this www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpPrkMPzmrs – mega-respect!!!
A brave woman, of course)) And she explained it very clearly, to the point. The picture that formed in my mind intuitively, subconsciously, she put it together and presented it quite briefly and clearly.

The woman is great, she did a good job. I especially liked the thesis about why you should get into a fight when you have a child in your belly. I don't know who she is for, probably for herself, a parasite, that is, making an image for herself.