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Support of the population (based on surveys) | More than half of the whole country. | 12% in the wole countr. Maximum support of 33% in Donetsk oblast, and 41% in Crimea (when questioned before the current occupation). |
Maidan | Pro-Russian Protests | |
Goals | To free the country from a dictator-like corrupt government, and to integrate with the much more democratic countries of Europe, while maintaining government independence. | Full or partial occupation of their own country by a foreign, dictatorial, corrupt regime, and be swallowed up by an antidemocratic country with a total loss of their region's independence |
Methods | During the course of the first months, strict non-violence, despite the use of force, even to the point of torture and killings, by the ruling force. Only after the ruling party broke promises on multiple occasions, and continued to use violent force against the protesters, did the protesters became violent themselves. Still, their main weapons were sticks and molotov cocktails. Firearms were almost entirely absent. Treatment of captured prisoners, though strict, was still mostly fair. | Use of violence from the very beginning, including capture of administrative buildings, law enforcement offices, military facilities, seizure of military weaponry (including machine guns and grenade launchers), and distribution of weapons to supporters. Murder, torture, violent beatings of unarmed protesters, capture of hostages, use of women and children as human shields, and abuse of captured prisoners. |
The role of foreign allied countries | Verbal support - much later economic sanctions. Everything is done in the open. | Strategic and violent. Military occupation and annexation of Crimea using the already available and moved-in foreign troops, capture of buildings and objectives by foreign special forces, sending spies and saboteurs deeper into the country, and concentration of troops on the borders. All this done while hypocritically denying supplies to the rebels and army intelligence services of the country they claim to support. |
National Ideology | Unity of the Ukrainian nation, including all ethnic groups and regions of Ukraine; absence of hatred and ethnic discrimination. | Splitting the nation and the state, hatred of all things Ukrainian, European, and American. Russian fascism and anti-Semitism. |
The Language Issue | Official government language is Ukrainian, but no one objects to speaking in Russian. Russian language was frequently heard on Maidan. There is not a single case of abuse or violence against someone, just because they are speaking Russian. | Hatred and contempt for the Ukrainian language, lack of recognition of it as a "real language," unwillingness to hear or learn any language other than Russian. |
Organization | Self-organization from below; official policies more hurt than help; proven that massive cases of payoffs by special interests were not happening. | Protests inspired by a foreign state; bystanders playing the role of pawns, extras, or human shields, governed by coordinators and fighters sent from abroad. There are numerous cases of people being paid off to act (although there are plenty of actors working for ideological reasons) |
Support of the population (based on surveys) | More than half of the whole country. | 12% in the whole country. Maximum support of 33% in Donetsk oblast, and 41% in Crimea (when questioned before the current occupation). |
Intellectual, cultural, and creative level | In general, high. On Maidan there was its own library, art exhibitions, lecture readings, comedy skits, musicians, poets, etc. Hig creativity, with many ingenious slogans and posters, and ingenuity in combat conditions (catapults and fire barricades). | In general, low. Zero creativity, no own ideas, barricade tactics copied from Maidan. Many participants apparently with a criminal past. |
Atmosphere | In general positive and polite, often even in relation to opponents. | Generally vicious and aggressive, with constant cursing, threats, and physical aggression. |
Behavior in captured buildings | Maintaining order, attempt to minimize possible damage. | Vandalism and looting; piles of garbage. |
Alcohol | Prohibited. | Actively used. Also cases of drug use. |
Propaganda | Mostly truthful, except for the inevitable in a revolutionary situation, with regards to unverified rumors. | Almost entirely false, with the lies generated with all the might of a foreign state propaganda machine. |
Attitude towards Soviet regime | Negative. | Positive. |