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During a meeting with participants of the Granite Revolution, the Orange Revolution and the Dignity Revolution, as well as defenders of the state and representatives of the intellectual elite, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that Ukrainian society unites easily faced with a threat and relaxes when such factor disappears.
On the seventh anniversary of Euromaidan, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky held an online meeting with the participants in the 1990, 2004 and 2013-2014 revolutions. defenders of the State and representatives of the intellectual elite, reported the press service of the head of state.
The Office of the President said Ukraine’s heads of state had not held such meetings before.
The achievement of the three revolutions is a new consciousness of both citizens and authorities, said the president.
“Together we can do everything. And each next ruler will know that the will of the people is decisive, it cannot be broken, it is impossible and it is not necessary to go against it. In my opinion, we come together quite easily and consistently. Against injustice, lies, against a specific ruler, in a word, against something or someone. And when [этот фактор] disappears, subconsciously comes relaxation. We forget that this is only a provisional victory, which does not mean the real start of the changes, “Zelensky said.
He called the 2019 elections an electoral revolution and said that the Dignity Revolution of 2013 could not have happened if they had done everything they could. declared in 2004.
Among others, the meeting was attended by:
- PThe Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denis Shmygal;
- Mikhail Podolyak, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President;
- The Minister of Culture, Alexander Tkachenko;
- the director of the Institute of National Memory of Ukraine, Anton Dorobovich;
- Euromaidan participant Myron gordeychuk;
- scientist, religious scholar, public figure, and former political prisoner Igor Kozlovsky;
- Euromaidan participant who was hit “Berkut” during the dispersal of the action on November 30, ATO Veteran Vitaly Kuzmenko;
- philosopher Evgeny Bystritsky;
- participant of the national liberation movement, co-author of the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine Oles Shevchenko;
- wife of the late hero of the Heavenly Hundred Natalia Boyko;
- participant of the Revolution of Dignity, volunteer doctor Olesya Zhukovskaya;
- journalists Elena Frolyak and Oles Doniy.
In October 1990, a series of massive actions took place in Kiev, dubbed the Revolution on Granite (or Student Revolution on Granite; most of the protesters were students).
The Office of the President did not name the revolutions whose participants took part in the meeting. At the same time, in the original edition of the communiqué it was indicated that we are talking about the events of 1991, 2004 and 2013-2014. Now the president’s website has a revised version, but the Google cache has kept a version where the wrong date of the first revolution is indicated.
Today Ukraine celebrates the Day of Dignity and Freedom. It was founded in 2014 to commemorate the start of two revolutions: the Orange Revolution (2004) and the Revolution of Dignity (2013-2014).
On November 21, 2013, in Kiev, due to the government’s refusal to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union, a rally began on the Maidan, which turned into massive protests across the country. The protesters opposed the forces of order and armed bandits (titushki) hired by the authorities. According to the fifth president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, 107 people died as a result of the tragic events of February 18-20, 2014. Euromaidan ended in late February 2014 with the flight of then-President Viktor Yanukovych to Russia.
