Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine by Timothy Snyder | The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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On January 16, the Ukrainian government, headed by President Yanukovych, tried to put an end to Ukrainian civil societ
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But a maidan now means in Ukrainian what the Greek word agora means in English: not just a marketplace where people happen to meet, but a place where they deliberately meet, precisely in order to deliberate, to speak, and to create a political society
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protests, until then entirely peaceful, became violent. Yanukovych lost support
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