Comparative Pattern: “dignity → pride → corruption”

1. French Revolution

• Dignity → popular sovereignty
• Pride → moral absolutism
• Corruption → the Terror (violence justified by virtue)

2. Russian Revolution

• Dignity → emancipation of workers
• Pride → ideological infallibility
• Corruption → totalitarian repression

3. Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity

• Dignity → civic equality, democratic orientation
• Pride → national self-assertion, heroic memory, moral authority of resistance
• Corruption → sending people to war by force and staying in power unelected
• Abuse of authority for personal gain:nepotism, cronyism, kickbacks dwarfing Yanukovych

The “disillusioned revolutionary” current

Many people who supported or participated in the 2013–14 events later became deeply disappointed. This includes:

• Igor Mosiychuk — who presents himself as a veteran of the struggle but now denounces the post-Maidan system as corrupt or hijacked.
• Serhiy Datsyuk — whose philosophical critique emphasizes lost subjectivity, external management, and the collapse of civic agency.
• Alexey Arestovich — once a government-aligned communicator who later turned into a harsh critic of the post-Maidan political class.
• Anatoliy Shariy, Diana Panchenko, and a large exile media community who frame the revolution as a catastrophic mistake or as the beginning of repression.
• Konstantin Bondarenko, author the book The Joker about Zelensky, about betrayal under the guise of nobility.
• Vladimir Ovsiannikov, author of the book ... Читать дальше »