Inside the Barricades, Kiev - Part 1/4 (Picture heavy)

[MattSh]

All photos taken March 1 2014

Damage at the Khreshatyk Metro Station, Institutskaya St.



Makeshift Memorials, near Khreshatyk Metro







Burnt out truck, Institutskaya St.



Smoke damage, building on Institutskaya St.



Burnt out car, Institutskaya St. with bricks removed from the sidewalks to be used as weapons by the protestors.



Boarded up storefront, Institutskaya St.



Passage to the Rada (Ukrainian Parliament). It's here on this street that the deadly second round of riots started. Protestors were attempting to approach and infiltrate the Rada building to ensure the delegates "voted correctly."



Encampment near the Rada. The statue in the back center is of General Nikolai Vatutin, Soviet commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front in WW2, and who was murdered by Ukrainian Nationalists.



Destroyed statue near the Rada. I knew it didn't look like this before, but had no idea what was actually here. Apparently it was a monument commemorating the October Revolution of 1917, yet the statue on top of it resembled a vase. ???

[MattSh]

1. All Parts...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024590401

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024590404

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024590408

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024590417


The role of religion in the current Ukrainian crisis.

I’m generally reluctant to post links by amateur historians, though they often seem more on the ball because their prestige as historians is not on the line. Having said this, I find that his analysis is generally spot on in the parts where I have knowledge of that history. And things that seemed a bit far fetched I looked into a bit further and he seems to know his stuff. Having said that, history is one of those things that is open to interpretation at many different levels.

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/02/ukrainian-nationalism-its-roots-and.html

[jtuck004]

3. K&R n/t

[Waiting For Everyman]

2. K&R

[alfredo]

4. I know a Lenin statue got destroyed. That looks too small for him.

[MattSh]

5. Definitely not Lenin.

I definitely knew where Lenin was and who he was.

[alfredo]

6. It would have been a grander pedestal.

[panader0]

7. Great collection--thanks

Who took these? You?

[MattSh]

8. Yes, these are mine.