Die Zeit on the anniversary of the Maidan: the enthusiasm in Kiev replaced by fear
That day, when in Kiev to commemorate the people who died on the Maidan in the previous year, and when the head of the country's Petro Poroshenko has said in a pathetic victory speech, the Mother was crying From fear for his sons, the journalist writes German Newspapers.
"very close to Maydan are still huge clock on the slope of a hill, created for the UEFA European football championship in the summer of 2012.. Only certain numbers have already been destroyed, and the hands no longer move. The feeling is that the city and the country fell out of time, " writes journalist edition Steffen Dobbert.
Under the clock - candles and portraits of those who are called " Heavenly hundred ". Next day there are several people with large boxes. They collect funds for the continuation of the military special operations in the East of the country, describes the journalist. One of them confessed to him that even then, when there was a Chernobyl in Kiev there were no panic, no atmosphere such fear.
"If naive and bold, reckless guys better listen to their mothers, all of this could not be. Mother was afraid for his boys at the beginning of last year, when They went to the Maidan. Today, their fear has increased hundreds of times. Each coffin arriving from Donbass, increases its " says Dobbert.
From the enthusiasm of the Maidan Today, the little that remained, he said. The confidence of Ukrainians in a quick and easy victory over enemies and quick entry into the civilized European world in the eyes of weakening.
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