A year ago Americans saw on their televisions Ukrainian protesters hurtling Molotov cocktails at beetle-helmeted riot police. Ukrainians from all walks of life–business executives, working class laborers, PhD students, artists, doctors–had been called to the barricades of Kyiv with the simple goal of overthrowing a president who, for years, had used taxpayer money as his personal ATM and had outlawed investigative journalism, demonstrations, and other democratic rights, essentially turning himself into a dictator. Fire engulfed Kyiv’s Maidan, or Independence Square, creating a war zone among the neoclassical buildings of a European capital. Everyday people had suddenly become soldiers. The revolution …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
