EuroMaidan Revolution
Andrea Chalupa: How to explain what’s happening in Ukraine
In Ukraine, the nationalistic West is Ukrainian-speaking and welcomes the EU, while the Russian-speaking East, where current president Victor Yanukovcyh rose to power, sees the Kremlin as an indispensable ally and wants to remain outside the EU. This has given rise to massive demonstrations vowing to overthrow the government, police brutality, and the president’s urgent meetings with the Kremlin. A civil war or an official breakup of the country is a very real possibility. To better understand the origins of this conflict, one must realize that this divide is not natural, but rather stems from murderous work by Joseph Stalin and one of the largest Western media cover-ups in history.