Maidan five years later: Ukraine’s revolution of dignity turned out to be a dream
By Henrik Kaufholz
It was a late Saturday afternoon in November 2013. There were a few thousand activists on Maidan in Kiev, Ukraine. I still remember my own remark to a colleague: "If that’s all they can mobilise, this is going to fizzle out." The police action had just broken up a small tent camp established by young protesters that same evening. However, my prediction of the protests fizzling out was wrong, completely wrong.
Photo: Jacob Ehrbahn
The following day, there were around one million angry Ukrainians in central Kiev protesting against how the police violently treated protesters the day before. Some…
