The IMF’s New Cold War Loan to Ukraine

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43. Yanukovych had a tendency of saying one thing and doing another.

Take for example the fact he signed the February 21st EU negotiated deal that would have kept him in power until expedited elections would take place....except by that point in time, he had already been packing his bags for nearly three days. He would helicopter out of town hours later.

Yes, Viktor Yanukovych spent three days packing up his goods, right at the very height of Maidan. And not just necessary survival supplies, either. No, he packed up a whole bunch of his oil paintings, antique vases, and lots of other valuable items.

So why would someone being forced out against his will take such a long time to pack up his stuff? And why would all that stuff include all his own valuable possessions?

It's all there on video, in case you don't believe me:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/03/12/what-did-yanukovych-take-with-him-as-he-fled-his-mansion-paintings-guns-and-a-small-dog-according-to-new-video/

Now, Yanukovych's enormous ego was not going to allow for him to admit that he basically quit his position. (This is a guy who after all fashioned himself a golden toilet for his house and adorned the house with pictures of him, his mistress and cohorts dressed up as 18th Century aristocrats) So he claimed he was overthrown in a coup, shot at, etc. But the video tells a much different--and calmer--tale.

He left on his own accord at his own choosing, and took his sweet time in doing so.

And by the way, this was nothing like what happened in Haiti. Aristide alleges he was kidnapped and forced onto a plane against his own will to a destination not of his own choosing. Yanukovych was never accosted by anyone, and flew away in his personal fleet of choppers.