Who can forget that iconic video of a Russian tank convoy stopping in front of a civilian protester on the street, backing up, and trying to drive around him? Or how the Ukrainian civilian climbed up onto the tank and began having a conversation with the driver?
Then there were the Russian soldiers mingling with Ukrainian anti-war demonstrators and singing pro-democracy chants? And the Ukrainians who raised a statue dedicated to democracy in a matter of days, to face down a giant image of Vladmir Putin hanging in Kyiv?
God damn I don't think anyone could have predicted how crazy that whole affair was.
Who can forget that iconic video of a Russian tank convoy stopping in front of a civilian protester on the street, backing up, and trying to drive around him? Or how the Ukrainian civilian climbed up onto the tank and began having a conversation with the driver?
Then there were the Russian soldiers mingling with Ukrainian anti-war demonstrators and singing pro-democracy chants? And the Ukrainians who raised a statue dedicated to democracy in a matter of days, to face down a giant image of Vladmir Putin hanging in Kyiv?
God damn I don't think anyone could have predicted how crazy that whole affair was.
(Incidentally, this CNN image collection from 1989 was pretty interesting and a useful counterpoint to a lot of the modern day anti-China bullshit simply because it is so dated)