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We have these kind of riots in Hungary (pretty close to Ukraine) as well. They are not really revolutions, but they are a good indicator that the people are extremely fed up with current government policies, which may lead to a revolution. Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class. EDIT: Just to give you bit of context on corruption... in the UK where I curren…

corrupt ruling class

That's redundant.

Re: Protests in Ukraine

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The capitol is more on the west side of the country which has more people that are pro-west, and most people there didn't want the more Russian influenced leader Yanukovych become president in the first place. Now he's doing things to make people pretty upset (not signing the EU agreement). I'm guessing a good deal of the eastern (more pro-Russian) side of the country still supports him though.

The person that is live streaming said this is on street Bankova, I think this is it: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d30....

Re: Protests in Ukraine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, 100% agreed, we had the same here in Brazil from June to November: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Brazil http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-protests-expand-to-over-o...

People are waking up all over the world. I wish the best for your nation. Never give up.

Hopefully it will happen here in the USA as well.

Re: Protests in Ukraine

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post #9

We have these kind of riots in Hungary (pretty close to Ukraine) as well. They are not really revolutions, but they are a good indicator that the people are extremely fed up with current government policies, which may lead to a revolution. Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class. EDIT: Just to give you bit of context on corruption... in the UK where I curren…

Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class. In democracies, the people typically do this by voting for someone else. Why isn't that an option in Hungary?

In "democracies" similar to the Hungarian one you can chose who robs you, there is no good option.

They are all the same, maybe one party called A the other B but the same people are behind all parties, and they form a strong inner circle.

They just give you an illusion of democracy, really.

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post #11

We have these kind of riots in Hungary (pretty close to Ukraine) as well. They are not really revolutions, but they are a good indicator that the people are extremely fed up with current government policies, which may lead to a revolution. Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class. EDIT: Just to give you bit of context on corruption... in the UK where I curren…

corrupt ruling class That's redundant.

They are at the moment, in an ideal world they should not be.

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post #9

We have these kind of riots in Hungary (pretty close to Ukraine) as well. They are not really revolutions, but they are a good indicator that the people are extremely fed up with current government policies, which may lead to a revolution. Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class. EDIT: Just to give you bit of context on corruption... in the UK where I curren…

Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class. In democracies, the people typically do this by voting for someone else. Why isn't that an option in Hungary?

>In democracies, the people typically do this by voting for someone else

No, the people think they do this, in reality the new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss.

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post #9

We have these kind of riots in Hungary (pretty close to Ukraine) as well. They are not really revolutions, but they are a good indicator that the people are extremely fed up with current government policies, which may lead to a revolution. Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class. EDIT: Just to give you bit of context on corruption... in the UK where I curren…

Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class. In democracies, the people typically do this by voting for someone else. Why isn't that an option in Hungary?

In eastern-european democracies ( like mine in Bulgaria ) your voting options are limited to parties that has stable corruption background, which pay media and poor citizen to vote for them. In this sense there is no way honest people to get involve in the government affairs, because they lack resources ( money, connections, etc. ) that are needed for wining ( even partly ) elections.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

People are waking up all over the world. I wish the best for your nation. Never give up.

Hopefully it will happen here in the USA as well.

I have high hopes for you Americans. "land of the free and the home of the brave"

Re: Protests in Ukraine

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This country is pretty much fucked up, criminal as a president, lack of resources, poor people and also European Union bureaucrats are not really interested in Ukraine in its current state. Half of citizines do not speak ukraininan language, they identify themselves as Russians. The other part is only waiting for a moment to gtfo there.
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