"The dominant left narrative is that Viktor Yanukovych was Ukraine's version of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro..."
What bullshit. On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > The dominant left narrative is that Viktor Yanukovych was Ukraine's > version of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, a "popularly elected" (as Stephen > F. Cohen puts it) president whose decision to reject a deal with the EU > in favor of a better deal with Russia made him the target of a > conspiracy of local fascists and Western imperialism. Furthermore, if > not for protesters being killed by snipers "hired" by the Euromaidan > protest leaders, the "putsch" would have not succeeded. This is the > story put forward by RT.com and echoed by WSWS.org, Global Research, and > other websites too numerous to mention. > > A deeper investigation reveals that it was his own erstwhile backers who > were decisive in his ouster. In a maneuver that evokes Mubarak's removal > in Egypt, elements of the "pro-Russian" oligarchy decided to throw > Yanukovych to the wolves in order to deflate the mass movement and make > continued oligarchic rule possible. As Don Fabrizio put it in Giuseppi > di Lampedusa's The Leopard: "Unless we ourselves take a hand now, > they'll foist a republic on us. If we want things to stay as they are, > things will have to change." > > full: > > http://louisproyect.org/2014/03/30/yanukovychs-ouster-the-myth-and-the-reality/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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