Hi, Lumiere_du_Code :)
I live in Belgrade, Serbia, and the events in Ukraine reminds me of the events in Serbia in the end oh the 1990s and in the 2000. In the 2000 the western paid opposition overthrew Slobodan Milosevic, all on our great joy and our great hopes for the future, just because we was tired of hard life (or what we perceived as hard life at that time) and essentially we was naive and fooled by the western media (just like you are today, but allow me to continue, I will explain it later). Later we released that it doesn't work that way, the west didn't gave us money, didn't gave us investments, actually the west and the European Union didn't act as a friend at all. The better life never came, and in a fact it actually got worse.
In following years (from the 2000. when "democratic" opposition came to power) the new type of oligarchs came into power in Serbia, but this time backed by the west and the EU. And that new oligarchs actually was democratic opposition leaders from the 1990s, the same in which we had such high hopes, just like yours Klitschko today (yes, I know that sounds unbelievable, it would sound unbelievable for me in the 1990s). Then they showed their true faces and intentions. They literary stole everything that wasn't nailed in the whole country, and what was nailed, they soled it priceless to the western companies who cut it in pieces and just left it (factories for example). Then we released that actually we lived good in the era of Slobodan Milosevic comparing with these.
The main thing is that at the era of Slobodan Milosevic the psychopathy in the power wasn't so obvious, it didn't slapped your face like it does today for every day. There was some social equality and solidarity between state and the people. The majority of the people had their jobs, only with very small wages, or very irregularly, let say, on every two or more months, there was state syndicates which shared food to their employees, the state agencies was waiting for you if you didn't have the money to pay the bills (for the electricity for example). We was very poor, but we had a sense that we are human beings and treated as such. Now the psychopathy is very visible and we can feel it on our heads every single day.
It was very hard, don't forget that for example our dear European friends and NATO bombed us in 1999. for 3 months destroying almost all infrastructure and killing around 5000 civilians and some 2500 soldiers, covering the whole country in depleted uranium (by the courtesy of the USAF), but the main thing is: no one (the state) didn't treated you like you are last scum or like you are total idiot, which was the case from 2000 onwards, and which got worse with every new "democratic" government. The corruption now is so unbelievable, the government is so out of touch with the common people that is also unbelievable. The voice and the wishes of the people is never heard, the government lives in their own state of the mind which has nothing to do with the little common man.
To cut it short, this is what happened since 2000, and probably will happen to Ukraine if west tricks them to follow "their dreams and try to join EU" (and you cant join just like that, you must first sell everything you have, including your soul):
1. Your new "democratic and pro western" government will sold all (and that means ALL) industry to the western companies, who will shut them down (they have their own really, and yours are just competition which they cant have. Remember that those companies actually runs western countries).
2. They will privatize industry which is in state's possession. Of course the new owners will be them. That companies will be shuted down too. Millions of people will be without jobs (millions is in tiny Serbia, imagine that in much bigger Ukraine).
3. They will destroy agriculture, so that you can buy food only from the west. (of course, prepare yourself for the GMO, that's mandatory).
4. The common people will be treated like s..t by the government. Maybe you can think now "but we could have rebellion or people's uprise then!", well sorry, but you cant. Rebellions and uprises are constructed, just like yours now. And, by the way, you will not have political opposition to organize that. There are no political oppositions in "democratic" states.
You will be jobless, poor and hungry. That small percentage which would be so lucky to work for some western company will work much much more for very small wages, and actually will be just modern day slaves. People in Serbia works for western companies 12 hours a day, 6 days (or even 7) for 250 euros a month (and if you have that you are lucky). You can work for the German company but you will never have wage or working conditions like some German worker, you are not German, they have no obligations to treat you good, you are just cheap disposable low rank working horse. Then you will release what REAL imperialism and hegemony are, and that this what you have now is actually not so terrible.
Ukraine is ofcourse different then Serbia, and the circumstances are different, but that's it in essential.
BTW, the same people who fooled us, and made our "democratic revolution" are now making yours. The NGO called "Otpor" (resistance) in the 1990s, and now known as the "CANVAS" or the "Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies". Also the usual names and agencies are in the play: USAID, Freedom House, National Endowment for Democracy, George Soros . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Applied_Nonviolent_Action_and_Strategies
That same people are oligarchs in Serbia now. They are trained by the CIA, and doing their job in Ukraine (and other countries too), your Yanukovich even baned some of them:
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/sbu-admits-some-foreigners-banned-from-ukraine-but-refuses-to-confirm-deny-names-334243.html
and some very interesting articles, Ukraine mentioned in almost all of them:
http://english.blic.rs/News/10033/CIA-in-shadow-praised-members-of-Serbian-Resistance
excerpt:
The Wikileaks site has posted internal I-mail correspondence of the employees in the American organization for geopolitical analysis ‘Stratfor’, call in media ‘CIA in shadow’. One of the individuals mentioned in these mails is Srdja Popovic, at that time a prominent member of the ‘Resistance’ and today the Executive Director of the Center for Applied Non-violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), which is claimed to be involved worldwide in ousting regimes of dictators and autocrats not liked by the USA. In the mails written between 2007 and 2010, the activists of the CANVAS are being described as former members of the ‘Resistance’, ‘kids’ who after having ousted Milosevic, put on suits and founded the CANVAS.
‘That is an impressive group. They go, set up an ‘action’ in a country and are trying to oust its regime. When used appropriately, they are stronger than c combat group of plane carrier’, there is written about the CANVAS in one of the ‘Stratfor’ mails posted on the Wikileaks site on November 25. In one of the mails, the key people at the ‘Stratfor’ are debating about sources of financing of the CANVAS and they conclude that ‘this organization is getting a lot of American money’. ‘I do not have details, but I spoke to some people lobbying for them to get even more money such as Mick McFaul of the Hoover Institute (today American Ambassador in Russia), one mail reads. It is further specified that the ‘Resistance’ was financed, among others, by the Freedom House, the International Republican Institute, the Institute for Open Society, the USAID and the American Institute for Peace. ‘Since the CANVAS consists basically of the same people as those of the Resistance, I am sure that the same Dollars avenues have been opened to them’, the mail concludes.
What did ‘Stratfor’, i.e. the ‘Shadow CIA’ want from former members of the Serbian ‘Resistance’ today in the CANVAS? It wanted two things – information and contacts in the filed since the activists of the CANVAS were appearing as promoters of non-violent resistance at many places of crisis worldwide.
One of the Stratfor analysts says in a mail that he has known the members of the CANVAS since 2007 and that they have been sending to him information about Venezuela, Georgia and Serbia.
http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/article/canvas-otpor-pora-serbias-brand-is-non-violent-revolution.html
And this is the BEST link. The author did in the nutshell, all with the links to reference wikileaks emails which connects Canvas, CIA, Ukraine . . .
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.com/2013/12/wikileaks-otpor-canvas-collaboration.html
Also good video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXbA6yZY-8
I wish you all the best, and be smart, choose lesser evil ;)
