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"maff" |
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18 Oct 2005 06:19:20 AM |
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OT: Orange revolution tests its leader's grey matter |
Orange revolution tests its leader's grey matter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/story/0,15205,1594741,00.html
Simon Tisdall
Tuesday October 18, 2005
The Guardian
The trouble with revolutions is that they raise expectations. When
revolutionary change fails to materialise, disillusion sets in. That is
the case to some extent in former Soviet Georgia. And it is the problem
confronting Viktor Yushchenko, elected Ukraine's hero-president after
last year's "orange revolution".
Mr Yushchenko denies the bid to remake Ukraine as a modern, unified,
democracy has stalled. "Fourteen years ago, Ukraine became independent
but not free. That was our main task last November," he said yesterday
in London. "The victory of freedom was an achievement of the whole
Ukrainian nation."
Simon Tisdall
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/232bc107fc21806a
Georgia
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/1133c1554cd52950
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| User: "Ordog" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Orange revolution tests its leader's grey matter |
18 Oct 2005 06:44:05 AM |
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maff wrote:
Orange revolution tests its leader's grey matter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/story/0,15205,1594741,00.html
Simon Tisdall
Tuesday October 18, 2005
The Guardian
The trouble with revolutions is that they raise expectations.
Quite so!
The feeling of let down is even greater if that revolution was
artificially boosted for political reasons from a third party (I shall
not name this party here but I think we all know who I mean). After
that third party stirs up the revolution and gets its prefered choice
of government the promised economic support for the revolutionaries
masses suddenly disappears!
Ordog
"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies." Bernard Shaw
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