2014 Ukrainian coup d'état

A burnt trade union building on February 20, 2014.

The 2014 Ukrainian coup d'état, known in the bourgeois press as the Maidan Revolution, was a CIA-backed fascist^[1] coup^[2] in Ukraine against president Viktor Yanukovych.

After the coup, armed rebellions began against the Ukrainian government in Donbas, forming the "people's republics" of Donetsk and Lugansk.^[3]

IMF involvement[edit | edit source]

President Viktor Yanukovych had refused to take a loan from the IMF because it demanded a decrease in wages and education and health spending. After the coup, the new Ukrainian government took an IMF loan after cutting its gas subsidy for citizens for 50%.^[4]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Max Blumenthal (2014-02-25). "Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?" Salon. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
↑ Conal Urquhart (2014-02-23). "Ukraine MPs appoint interim president as Yanukovych allies dismissed – 23 February as it happened" The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
↑ Oksana Grytsenko (2014-04-12). "Armed pro-Russian insurgents in Luhansk say they are ready for police raid" Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
↑ Prahbat Patnaik (2022-03-06). "The IMF Connection with the Ukraine Crisis" Peoples Democracy. Retrieved 2022-06-19.

[1] Max Blumenthal (2014-02-25). "Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?" Salon. Retrieved 2022-02-12.

[2] Conal Urquhart (2014-02-23). "Ukraine MPs appoint interim president as Yanukovych allies dismissed – 23 February as it happened" The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-02-12.

[3] Oksana Grytsenko (2014-04-12). "Armed pro-Russian insurgents in Luhansk say they are ready for police raid" Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2022-02-12.

[4] Prahbat Patnaik (2022-03-06). "The IMF Connection with the Ukraine Crisis" Peoples Democracy. Retrieved 2022-06-19.

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