Euro Maidan 2014: The Ruptured Rebellion of Incoherent Revolution

[Catherina]

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I approached Sviatoslav with some questions about the funding of the whole enterprise. I was told by him earlier that the revolution is all self-financed and all the goodies one saw - including lights, Wi-Fi, pickles, buckwheat, salo, tea, coffee and variety of soups served to stave off cold (all variations of cabbage soup) - came from kind and generous people down below. While the funding of the revolution based on Dickensian looking types did not seem too credible, I followed the money boxes that were often emptied and filled every couple of hours. I gathered from the amounts collected that there wouldn't be a tree left in all of Kiev oblast to print 1,5, 10, 20 Hrvnia bills (US $1= 9.6 Hryvnia) and still be enough to cover even a quarter of EuroMaidan operating expenses, so I asked him what was really happening. I said the people have a right to know what is going on. Unfortunately Sviatoslav would have none of that as I was told that this revolution - and as any other revolutions out there - have to have their secrets, i.e., the enemy cannot know where we get the money and how we spent it. When I quipped that the enemy already knows that Viktor Pinchuk - Ukraine's premiere oligarch - pays for the press center among other things (as reported by Bloomberg), his eyes widened and he said quite angrily, "yes there are some wealthy people funding us, but you will get no files or spreadsheet showing where the money is coming or going." Forget about it.

There goes the peoples' revolution as advertised and the subject was dropped.