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Ursprungligen postat av
Madagascar
vad avses?
Kommunisterna som tidigare hotat med att fälla regeringen fäster säkert stor vikt vid låga gaspriser.
Det gör förmodligen även Svobodas anhängare. Andrew Kramer i New York Times skriver
bl.a. detta om Oleg Tyagniboks parti:
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In the protests, its activists make up much of the street muscle on the square, standing on ladders on the barricades, wearing bicycle helmets and ski masks, and toting clubs of table legs or pipe, on the lookout for the riot police. As the protests have unfolded, the party’s role has grown.
For Mr. Tyagnibok, a urological surgeon by training who joined the party at its inception in the early 1990s, the aim is to translate that higher profile into an even larger role in the country’s future politics, based on an unyielding nationalism.
“Our understanding of nationalism is love,” he said in a recent interview in one of the buildings in downtown Kiev that are occupied by protesters, a site known as the Headquarters of the Resistance. “Nationalism is love of the land, love of the people who live on the land, and it is love of a mother. Love of a mother cannot be bad.”---
As Svoboda has entered the mainstream, so have its symbols, particularly a black and red banner, ubiquitous on Independence Square, that was the flag of the partisans.