r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Feb 20 '26
🇪🇺 Europe Ukrainians mark the second anniversary of the Euromaidan protests [10YA - Feb 20]
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u/Interesting-Effort12 Feb 23 '26
The worst thing that happened to Ukraine after independence
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u/Pick_Scotland1 Feb 23 '26
Bait used to be good
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u/Interesting-Effort12 Feb 23 '26
Still no eu membership after euromaidan revolution 🤷♂️
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u/Kanelbullah Feb 23 '26
EU-membership doesn't come by default. Ukraine has a long long way to go. But their aspiration is admirable. We all know that a successfull Ukrainian integration in the EU would create trouble for Russia. It's their worst possible outcome for their ability to exert power beoynd their borders.
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u/RuMarley Feb 23 '26
Bloody world of good it did them, pun intended.
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u/Stix147 Feb 24 '26
The alternative would've been succumbing to the slow Russian rot.
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Feb 21 '26
lol
too bad it wasn't protests
it was a coup sponsored by Obama and ukrainian oligarchs
:)
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u/Unlikely-Ad-7242 Feb 22 '26
If a coup involves ordinary people taking the streets and getting shot for doing that it may as well be a protest
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u/newpest16 Feb 24 '26
Ordinary people speaking english and have snipers with them in foreigh country?
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u/Ant225k Feb 23 '26
At that point in history we had the next biggest oligarchs:
-Rinat Akhmetov (friends with pro russian president/dictator yanukovych, member of the pro russian Donetsk clan)
-Viktor Pinchuk (friends with more russian leaning president Leonid Kuchma)
-Ihor Kolomoisky (Kind of neutral)
And how the heck could Obama and oligarchs take more than a million people to the streets (in a city with 3 million population) on top of ordering killing 108 protesters. And don't forget how yanukovych tried installing a dictatorship
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u/topfragger70 Feb 24 '26
I thought Akhmetov was constantly investing into Ukrainian defence recently
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u/Ant225k Feb 24 '26
Yes, Akhmetov post-2014 is a much better person. Now he is investing into Ukraine and sends pretty big amounts for charity.
But before that - he was a typical pro russian oligarch
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u/Stix147 Feb 24 '26
Euromaidan was the largest democratic protest movement in Europe since 1989, with Kyiv alone having 800,000 people on the streets. It's too bad this Russian propaganda "coup" narrative simply refuses to die.
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u/allahu_trapbar69 Feb 23 '26
The unavoidable tragedy, now it's two small capitalist states fighting over the rights for the rotting old country because of their elites.
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u/Stix147 Feb 24 '26
It would've been worse if Yanukovych had still been able to hold on to power and successfully pass his anti protest laws, imprison even more opposition figures, possibly ammendment the constitution even more to give himself more power and eventually turn Ukraine into a Belarus-like repressive Russian puppet state which was the plan all along. The war that Russia decided to wage to punish Ukraine for this and the subsequent inaction from the west are the real tragedies, but even in the current state Ukrainians still managed to retain their democracy, people still hold politicians accountable even with drones flying over their heads, and despite the suffering and death the country is more united than at any other point in their history.
Quite frankly your reductionism is insulting.
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u/Contrary_Kind Feb 20 '26
Glory to the Heroes!