The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act
of rebellion
Albert Camus
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| One Million March, Kiev, Ukraine, December, 2013 |
Peaceful protests started in Kiev as a gathering of a
few thousand students expressing discontent at President Victor Yanukovych's
decision to pull out of a deal that would bring Ukraine closer to joining the
European Union, after the government had announced that work had been suspended
on this agreement. After an initial brutal police crackdown, the protests had
grown in size: hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian protesters had been flooding the streets of Kiev and occupying
government buildings to put an end to corruption.
At least one hundred of people, Ukrainian heroes, were killed in just the few days of violence in the city which turned into a battlefield. More than 1,100 people were injured. Smouldering fires of barricades, streets covered in soot, a smell of burned tyres, heavy snowfall and beating frost; bottles and stones, people banging metal with sticks as a sort of signal, and men in helmets preparing Molotov's cocktails...
Tightened with a smokescreen, surrounded by fire and ice, flashbangs, teargase and water cannons from Berkut, protesters didn't pay attention to wet clothes, they didn't take care to be safe. Journalists and medic volunteers were at gunpoint of snipers on the roofs too.
There was an incredible atmosphere on Maidan: on one hand, weariness of the frustrated people, on the other hand, euphoria and expectation of victory. But the most remarkable were people who made this revolution. All social classes were presented on the squares. It was an unusual collection of characters from different worlds but with the common goal. Those who couldn't go to barricades supported the revolution by bringing food and dry warm clothes.
Tightened with a smokescreen, surrounded by fire and ice, flashbangs, teargase and water cannons from Berkut, protesters didn't pay attention to wet clothes, they didn't take care to be safe. Journalists and medic volunteers were at gunpoint of snipers on the roofs too.
There was an incredible atmosphere on Maidan: on one hand, weariness of the frustrated people, on the other hand, euphoria and expectation of victory. But the most remarkable were people who made this revolution. All social classes were presented on the squares. It was an unusual collection of characters from different worlds but with the common goal. Those who couldn't go to barricades supported the revolution by bringing food and dry warm clothes.
Maidan has become a big advocate of freedom:
freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
Ukrainians are passionate, dignified people fighting for what they beleive. We made Ukraine the heart of the revolution.
Responsibility
is the price of freedom which is nothing but a chance to be better.
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