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What Revolution Looks Like On Instagram


As anti-government protests escalated in Ukraine in February, activists took to Facebook and Twitter to popularize a name for the revolutionary movement. They called it “Euromaidan,” after the pro-European bent of the demonstrators and the central square in the capital where they were massing. On both social networks, the watchword mingled with violent images from the pro-democracy uprising—scenes of police officers in riot gear, protesters donning gas masks, buildings ringed by burning tires, and streets reduced to rubble. Kiev seemed a city engulfed in flames. Protesters catch fire as they stand behind barricades during new clashes today, by @Kilicbil …read more

Source: The Atlantic

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