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Historical echoes of the Ukraine war

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The Rise of Ukrainian Democracy in the 1990s

In Ukraine, the elites were trying to emulate Russia for a long period of time. But each time authoritarianism was rising in Ukraine, you would get a popular protest,. The Maidan revolutions. And that's what stops really kind of a creep in authoritarianism or authoritarian tendencies in Ukraine - and that never happened in Russia at least to that degree.

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