Usually reporters try to answer the question: "Who came out to Maidan and why." Depending on the political leaning of MSM, the answers are different. Some say it's "fascists who came out to lynch the Moscali (Ukranian derogatory for Moscovites and Russians in general).", some say "they're bums and slackers, who've got nothing better to do" and "instigators on the government payroll." In reality, there is no answer. Those who came out are completely different. Remember, how a couple of years in Moscow there was a MSM buzzword "angry townspeople." Here you see football fans, retirees, office plankton. And everyone is standing together. A sweet, ol' grandmother is pouring Molotv cocktail in a nationalists' bottles; and a manager of a large company is carrying ammunition to the student. And as it seems to me at this time, these people do not have a specific plan, nor idea of what to do next. Of course, individually, everyone has their own plan to "save Ukraine." For some its "we need a couple of crates of AKs and grenades, we'll sort things out here quickly." Others "need to ask the world community for help and bring in the UN troops." At this time there is no central idea of what to do, an idea that can unite and point in one direction the people at Maidan.
The only thing that is completely clear -- people came out against Yanukovich.
| ...am beginning to get a better handle on this, but it is still, at least to me, somewhat confusing... |
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