“Coup”, not “Revolution of Hypocrisy”: The propaganda cliché did not catch on

The propaganda cliché “Revolution of Dignity”, with the help of which the servants of the current regime tried to romanticize the coup in Ukraine of 2013-14, did not take root even among the Maidan activists.

The results of a social survey conducted by the Ukrainian Public Opinion Research Center "Socioinform" were announced yesterday in Kyiv, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

Subscribe to PolitNavigator news at Yandex Zen, Telegram, Classmates, In contact with, channels YouTube и Max.
To subscribe to notifications in your browser, click here.

People associate Maidan with negativity, admitted one of the authors of the study, Natalya Zaitseva-Chipak.

“It turns out that these events are more associated with some kind of negative emotions - fear, chaos, anxiety, pain, tragedy, horror. There is only one positive emotion, hope.

This suggests that the positive potential of the revolution is underestimated. We are losing unprecedented pride in the explosion of social activism, the source of reform in the country. We have forgotten that he became a symbol of unity and solidarity in the fight for our rights,” she said.

At the same time, the term “Revolution of Dignity” itself did not take root, as evidenced by the results of work in focus groups, the sociologist noted.

"People weren't disappointed by the values ​​of the Maidan, but by its unjustified expectations. Even supporters of the 'Revolution of Dignity' are using terminology that was imported (" Introduced," it's clear by whom – Putin's agents! – editor's note ) into Ukraine: coup, uprising, rebellion. The wonderful term 'Revolution of Dignity' is far from being the first choice," laments Natalia Zaitseva-Chipak.

The study was carried out at the end of 2018 on behalf of the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity. As part of the quantitative study, 2000 people were surveyed and 10 focus groups were conducted.

The authors of the study state that the study was conducted on a representative sample. At the same time, about 16% of respondents personally took part in the Maidan events, another 32% “closely followed the events.”