The insinuation that the Maidan is anything but a homegrown revolution against a kleptocratic regime is just insulting to the Ukrainian people and everyone who died (and is currently dying) for freedom. Slava.
"As the Indian economist Prabhat Patnaik has pointed out, the IMF played a key role in precipitating the 2014 crisis: Ukraine’s then-President, Viktor Yanukovych, refused to accept IMF demands that he cut wages, slash social spending and end gas subsidies in order to integrate with the EU, and turned instead to Russia for an alternative economic agreement."
Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University. He demonstrates understanding of Eastern Europe that I have never seen in another American.