REDITION OF THE MAIDAN

UKRAINE

A column of "anti-fascists" (progressive socialists, the Union of Orthodox and various youth organizations in the south and east of Ukraine) formed at the beginning of Khreshchatyk on Bessarabska Square. In the same place, under the monument to Lenin, they held a meeting...

A column of "anti-fascists" (progressive socialists, the Union of Orthodox and various youth organizations in the south and east of Ukraine) formed at the beginning of Khreshchatyk on Bessarabska Square. In the same place, under the monument to Lenin, the communists held a meeting. Activists of the nationalist UNA-UNSO gathered under the market building.

When the column moved towards the Maidan, the UNS wanted to follow. But young communists with portraits of Che Guevara on their banners blocked their path. The police lined up between them. In principle, it was possible to bypass Khreshchatyk from any direction. But for one side it was important to go along the main street of the country, and for the other - not to let ideological opponents into it.

However, when the column reached the Maidan, people with UPA flags were waiting for it there. The police herded the participants of both actions on opposite sides of the roadway, and they began to shout to each other.

Meanwhile, from the streets of Prorizna and Bogdan Khmelnitsky (this is between Bessarabka and Maidan) new columns came out with banners and UPA veterans at the head. "Anti-fascists" advanced towards them. Special forces soldiers have already pulled up here. Each side was blocked by four or five chains in helmets.

Caught in the middle, the people of Kiev entered into heated discussions on political and historical topics. The Great Stand lasted for a relatively long time. Then the "anti-fascists" started throwing eggs and packets of fermented baked milk. They did not reach the nationalists through two rows of barriers and a dead zone.

Then the actions spread to the Maidan. A middle-aged dyed blonde in a black T-shirt solemnly dragged the flag of the UPA along the roadway to the middle of the square to burn it. In response, two guys, breaking through the cordon, snatched the Russian flag from the guys from the Sevastopol organization "Breakthrough". But the young representatives of the city of Russian sailors not only took away the tricolor, but also managed to dance the banner of their opponents on the ashes.

It should be noted that the most radical youth organizations such as the "Brotherhood" and the Donetsk PPP did not come to the Maidan. They thought it wasn't cool enough for them. “There is no drive,” their leader Dmytro Korchinsky said to the “brothers” the day before.