Ukraine on Fire

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Cfunk D @Cfunk2085 09/26/2023 Disgusting lying anti Ukraine propaganda. Claiming majority of Ukrainian protestors were Neo-nazis. Such a disgusted unfounded lie. Claiming a free market caused an Oligarchy in Russia. Such biased and subjective claims. Oligarchy is just a softer version of Communism which Russia was. See more Mat B @RT94585397 06/02/2023 Disgusting, brainless Russian propaganda. Oliver Stone was hard on cash and sold his soul like other B-list celebrities looking for a Kremlin paycheck. This film was meant to soften the western public perception of Ukraine, to allow Russia to invade and begin its genocide of Ukrainians years later. Absolute filth. See more D W @RT34520430 05/24/2023 Oliver Stone is one of the most disgraced film makers since Polansky, and this is his nadir. A full repertoire of lies, to fascistic and genocidal ends. See more 05/07/2022 I didnt know much about Ukraine before current events of course- and so checked out this documentary to learn a bit more about the regions history. It definitely makes you look at the current 2022 events in a different way and thats a good thing. It gives more insight into the relationship between Russia and Ukraine and is well worth watching if you want to learn a bit more and understand the current news broadcasts a little better. See more 04/19/2022 truthful and informative See more 03/20/2022 Conveys a partisan, pro-Putin conspiracy theory (why, in detail) Oliver Stone produced and starred in "Ukraine on Fire" (2016) to compete with "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" (2015). Where the earlier documentary concentrates on the people's pro-democracy movement on the ground, Stone puts forward Vladimir Putin's point of view through an extensive interview with Viktor Yanukovych, president of the Ukraine at the time who ordered police to attack unarmed protesters. The documentary dovetailed neatly with the Trump campaign's attempt at the time to link Joe Biden with the Ukraine. (Paul Manafort was a long-time advisor in the pay of Viktor Yanukovych.) Background: "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" by Evgeny Afineevsky (Netflix, but available for free on YouTube), documents the 93-day-long Euromaidan protests in Kyiv from November 21, 2013, to February 22, 2014, that deposed president Viktor Yanukovych and cost the lives of 125 protesters and 13 police. 65 protesters remain missing and 1890 were treated for injuries. The Euromaidan (Euro Square) protests were centered on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) and were triggered when Yanukovych reneged on his promise to associate the Ukraine with the EU, signing an agreement with Vladimir Putin instead. On February 22, Yanukovych fled to Russia. Eight days later (March 2), troops from the Russian naval base at Sevastopol (Crimea's largest city) reinforced by forces from Russia itself had taken control of the Crimean Peninsula from the Ukraine. Back to Stone's "Ukraine on Fire": Stone's documentary conveys a partisan, pro-Putin conspiracy theory largely based on interviews with deposed President Yanukovych; Vitaliy Zakharchenko, former Minister of Internal Affairs (head of the police); and Vladimir Putin himself. Journalist Robert Parry contributes to Stone's theory that all "colored revolutions" were the results of subversive conspiracies organized by the US Government: the State Department, the CIA, and NGOs in general (more specifically, the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID--which oversees foreign aid). George Soros, Joe Biden, and John McCain were named as co-conspirators. In short: Regarding democracy as subversive puts Oliver Stone and his documentary in bed with dictators and autocrats. His documentary (based on interviews) holds that Euromaidan was carried out by anti-Semitic and anti-Polish nationalists with links all the way back to the World War II Nazi occupation. "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" shows on-the-ground action footage of ordinary people involved in the pro-democracy people's movement. On March 8, 2022, YouTube deleted Stone's documentary. Vimeo soon followed. See more Read all reviews

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