More from the Orange Revolution

A tent "city" was set up on Vul Khreshchatyk (or the main street through Kyiv leading to Maidan (Independence Square). The tent city was kept up until free and fair elections were held and Yushchenko was elected as President.
There are some yellow flags mixed in with all the orange. These say ПОРА or Pora in English, which means "Now is the time". This is an organization, mostly of younger people which was intrigal in the organizing the demonstrations and the tent city. In the days, weeks & months before the revolution they were also harassed, had their headquarters ram-sacked & sometimes members even beaten by authorities.




Many things that happened during the revolution are so difficult to put down in words. There were all these feelings: anxiety, hope, commaradere, fear, but yet peaceful, excitement...... amazement.

"Razom nas bahato i nas ne podolaty" = was a very popular slogan of the revolution = "Together we are many and will not be defeated?" and "Svobdy ne Spynyty" = "Freedom will not be stopped!"