Today certainly will be a lot of articles about what Ukraine could do in these two years, what failed, where was our victory and where defeat. There will be no intelligence, no conclusions, only his personal observations and feelings that have remained since.
First — background. The author was fortunate to participate in Two squares and the first one impression from the first. When the people gathered on the Maidan and moved on Lesya Ukrainka Boulevard up to the IEC, the author joined the event, in the present Gulliver. The mood was determined, but quite nervous. There was a rumor that already are at the top of the internal troops with the equipment and most likely will be a mix. Then there was no experience of these activities, and therefore the tension was in the air. What was needed was some sign that people believe in themselves. On the right side of the Boulevard is a series of Stalin-era houses whose balconies overlook the Lesi. And here in the first or second house on the balcony came an old grandma, something dug, and then waved the big orange panties and began to swing them! That's when the people hath, he perked up and gained confidence in victory. Who saw it, knows how wonderful it was.
Second Maidan really began on December 1 when people out so much that he didn't fit neither on independence nor on the adjacent part of Khreschatyk or in the surrounding streets, including Gorodetsky and College. The entire center was in people with ribbons and flags. Not sure how counting people on the Maidan, but Maidan people was no less. On the first day they came out, mostly Kiev. The feeling is incredible. Code such a crush in the subway or anywhere at all on the nerves. There is a huge crowd of people, people are so tightly together that the typical situation — trouble is inevitable. However, in the absence of cops, the people itself governs, and that in these hundreds of thousands of people there is neither theft nor otdalennyh feet — nothing! People support each other, and everything — friendly. Here it is clear to all that around. The feeling of a big family, full of peace and confidence that "we can"!
The second strong feeling arose when Khreshchatyk began to fill in the "vans" with the Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil and other rooms. Thus, Ukraine is rising, which means night and "Cross". Tellingly, in Russian-speaking Kiev no language problems there is by definition, however, as they are not in Lviv or Ternopil. Part of Western Ukraine gives confidence in the irreversibility of the processes and inevitable victory.
After a while, the Maidan began to arrive people from the East and South of Ukraine. If the West is organized on location and traveling in large groups, the East riding individually, with an eye to not to have problems on the way. But most of all, the author was moved by what came to Maidan on the Crimean Tatars. They brought food and began to prepare for all pilaf. By the way, about the products. How many people were carrying food — no one will ever count or know. Businessmen carried in bulk, but how wonderful it was that women and even grannies, Purley bags of cereals, sugar, and other matters.
And then there were clashes with the security forces and the people suffered bandages, harnesses and other medications. When the case went to the interchange, on the Maidan was carrying almost all, because the machine was cut off on the distant approaches. Tires, gasoline, bottles, and other people were carrying.
Probably, all remember that returning home from the Maidan, Kiev for a long time at the floor, eyes watching the news espresso with direct reports from the scene. All that happened there, every pass through itself and to many it is worth the health.
And most importantly — the spirit of freedom and the spirit of the Maidan. Something to break this spirit cannot, it was evident in all corners of the Maidan, for everywhere hung posters with pictures or texts of folk humor sharp! When people laugh, they are not afraid! And people were not afraid, even when it was completely scared, especially at the end, when he began a mass killing of Maidan protesters. Even then people were shot to death, when no one is customized and is not obliged. Like that indomitable spirit arose in those days.
And then, when the enemy fled, incredible sea of flowers covered the place, killing the best of us. The author has never seen and probably will never see such colors just on the pavement, surely that was the only time when hundreds, if not thousands, of people who washed with her tears Institute. It is unlikely that they were mourning for relatives or friends. They mourned strangers, who went to the meeting with the Almighty for us all.
At the end of this mess, I want to note one important thing. Those who were not on Maidan — will never know a hundredth part of what happened there. It was useless to tell, there had to be. This can occur once in your life, and maybe never. In five years, it will become a legend, and while the war is going — fresh and distinctly, as if it was yesterday.
Source: http://defence-line.org/
МБФ "СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ" / ICF "GLORY TO UKRAINE" / FIB "GLOIRE À L'UKRAINE"
