The People of Ukraine

[blamebrampton]

Nearly ten years ago, there was an election in Ukraine. It was a ballot for president between Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych won, in a ballot riddled with corruption. Yushchenko was ill: poisoned by dioxin. Rumours were spread that the horribly ill and facially disfigured Yushchenko had made up his poisoning as a stunt.

Comments

[ashindk]

The world is a crazy, scary place! And (relatively) peaceful revolutions like this one always move me to tears. I have so many thoughts on this, but it's hard for me to put them into words in a language that's not my own.

[veritas03]

My son went to Ukraine a few years ago with some friends who were visiting family there. We've been following the situation. I hadn't yet heard that Yanukovych had fled. Thank you for the succinct explanation of this situation.

[phoenixacid]

Oh I haven't heard about Yanukovych leaving yet. I'm glad things are calm now - it feels like there are waves of revolutions going around the world this moment.

[jadzialove]

Thanks for spelling it out in such simple yet compelling terms. I had the main gist of what was going on, but I didn't know about some of that. It's a terrible shame that anyone had to lose their life over it, but it's pretty inspiring that the people stuck together like that and ultimately brought it all to an end. I don't think I understand how someone who is strongly suspected of corruption in an election that was overturned for that reason gets elected again. But then again, I can't understand so many people here in the US consistently and fervently voting against their own self-interest, so...

There's actually a whole lot I don't understand about the human race.

[bk7brokemybrain]

Thank you for this!