The revolution that began with people in high spirits turns into a living nightmare replete with violence and thug attacks. Sound familiar? If you lived in Kyiv during late 2013 and early 2014 it would.
It does to Isabella Steger, who writes in the Quartz ezine that few street protests have resonated with Hong Kongers as much as the 2014 pro-European protests in Ukraine.
The timing of the uprising in Kyiv’s central Maidan square, coming just months before the outbreak of the Umbrella Movement in 2014, provided a convenient reference point for those in Hong Kong.
The brutal scenes from an incident in Hong Kong earlier this month that saw armed white-clad thugs beating people in a suburban train station, for example, are similar to scenes in downtown Kyiv five years earlier. Many compared the assailants to Titushki, a term used by Ukrainians to refer to athletic young men believed to have been hired by the state to assault pro-democracy protesters and journalists.
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