In 2004, great things happened in the Ukraine: its people, for years passive and disunited, suddenly stood up in a collective, vibrant and non-violent revolution.
After the cruelly-falsified presidential elections on November 21, masses of people right around the country found their own beautiful way of saying that the dark-grey shadow of Sovietisation is not their choice.
If you want to imagine their faces prior to this, think of photos of Budapest in 1956, Prague in 1968 or Warsaw in 1980. These invisible Ukrainians have made their country very visible in the world. Their strength and longing for change has won a victory over all the dirty technologies deployed by the authorities. For many, to learn that their corrupt Ukrainian government is not almighty at all was a real discovery.
