{"id":94,"date":"2014-01-29T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T15:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-01-29T11:39:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T15:39:24","slug":"andrukhovych-love-and-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/01\/29\/andrukhovych-love-and-hatred\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrukhovych: &#8220;Love and hatred&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yuri_Andrukhovych\">Yuri Andrukhovych<\/a>, writing today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/30\/opinion\/love-and-hatred-in-kiev.html?hpw&amp;rref=opinion&amp;_r=2\">in the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;We are defending ourselves, our country, our future, Europe\u2019s future \u2014 some with Molotov cocktails, some with knitting needles, some with paving stones, some with baseball bats, some with texts published on the Internet, some with photos documenting the atrocities. [. . .]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;The authorities can\u2019t understand this. Recently, some unknown thugs in civilian clothes kidnapped an activist and spent the night torturing him, demanding: Who is funding the Maidan? Which Western sources? Is it the State Department, or someone else?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><!--more-->&#8220;The regime\u2019s mental system of coordinates cannot fit one simple fact: The Maidan funds itself, through its own love and its own hatred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;I have never loved my homeland as much as I love it now. Before, I had always been skeptical and restrained toward it. I am 53 years old, and had long put sentimentality behind me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;But these days I see our women, young and old, sorting with amazing efficiency the donated medications and food supplies, I see hipster students in hockey masks and camouflage pants fearlessly going onto the frontline barricades, I see our workers and farmers providing security for the Maidan protesters, our grannies and grandpas who keep bringing more and more hot food to Independence Square, and I feel a lump in my throat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/30\/opinion\/love-and-hatred-in-kiev.html?hpw&amp;rref=opinion&amp;_r=2\">Complete article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yuri Andrukhovych, writing today in the New York Times: &#8220;We are defending ourselves, our country, our future, Europe\u2019s future \u2014 some with Molotov cocktails, some with knitting needles, some with paving stones, some with baseball bats, some with texts published on the Internet, some with photos documenting the atrocities. 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