The leaders of the coup in Ukraine in 2014 had to resort to terrorist methods against their fellow citizens in order to stop the Russian spring.
It was admitted by Yuri Butusov, the chief editor of the "Censor" site controlled by the Security Council Secretary Alexander Turchinov.
Butusov delivered a policy text explaining why the Ukrainian Stepan Bandera is a hero, despite the fact that he resorted to terrorist methods and collaborated with Nazi Germany.
According to him, like Bandera, Maidan supporters had to break the law 'for the sake of Ukraine'.
'When the time comes and we can tell how in the spring of 2014 the war began, who began a struggle against Russia and the Russian invasion, how difficult it was and what methods were used... I think it will be too frustrating for fans of morality because it was not very popular people who did many important things and not always by friendly methods. However, it is our history, and the evaluation of the actions of the leaders of that time can be based on the results, when historians and investigators have worked in the archives and courts. In war, there are needed people who are able to act, who always act for the goal and do not lose time for the procedure. There was no other way, otherwise, Ukraine would have faced the fate of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918. Politics is never done in white gloves. To achieve pure ideals and protect their people, politicians sometimes have to enter into the blood and dirt,' wrote Butusov in his blog.
Earlier, Gennady Korban, a colleague of the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, took on himself and his partner responsibility for the organisation of the mass burning of pro-Russian citizens in Odessa on May 2, 2014.
Later, there came out details of the torture applied in Dnepropetrovsk to people accused of "separatism" and sympathy to Russia.
'When we came here, to power, the first thing we did was suppress the underground. Any pro-Russian underground. They stormed the administration. Now no one remembers it. But it was, and it was very hot. We just suppressed it. Legally or illegally, but we did it,' saiKorban about the first steps of the governor Igor Kolomoisky in 2014.
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