• rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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    4 days ago

    “Violence is when I can’t get on with my life and ignore everything bad that has been happening quietly”

    Like, Euromaidan here was definitely what most would label as “violence”. It’s also how the place I live in is still not a part of the imperialist shithole that is russia.

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      4 days ago

      Euromaidan was peaceful until the anti-protest measures were used by law enforcement, the Berkut deployed to violently disperse them, at the request of the then failing government. It started with 1,500 and after the crackdown grew to hundreds of thousands. After multiple weeks news of riots began to spread, but much of it can be attributed to Russian propoganda trying to lable the movement as xenophobic and hateful.