Last week I got a message from a good friend who lives abroad. Like, “why are you bad-mouthing Maidan, it seems like something good.”
The phrase “something good” really grates on the ear. This conversation was already after the nighttime dispersal of the students, the deaths of people, people being burned alive, the seizure of administrative buildings, calls for physical reprisals against certain groups of people.
I even started worrying about people who don’t know Russian, since they’re deprived of access to objective information about the events taking place. It is known that foreign media operate with an eye on the Washington Regional Committee.
Let’s look at a small example of how information is organized on the internet. Flickr is one of the most popular photo-hosting services. Below is the search result for the keyword “euromaidan” (in Latin letters): http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=euromaidan
What do we see here? Peaceful demonstrators have gathered in the square under their national flags, at a field kitchen girls are feeding passersby, a little Christmas tree made of flags. It seems like something good.
Now let’s look at the photos for the very same keyword, only typed in Russian letters: “евромайдан” http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=евромайдан
Here the peaceful demonstrators are already holding clubs, firing rockets at the police, shooting at them with homemade guns, throwing bottles of incendiary mixture, tearing up the pavement into cobblestones to throw at people.
And this is not some kind of coincidence. This is the result of attempts to present “Maidan” to the whole world as something “good.”