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by 345723 4503 days ago
Ah, political propaganda from the rebels.

The problem with videos like this is that they provide no context. It doesn't tell you a damn thing about what's going on. It's a video of a pretty girl shot with a DSLR with a shallow depth of field. Is this even shot in the Ukraine? No idea. Could be a studio pretty much anywhere.

I don't know what's going on in Kiev. This wiki article is all I could find that is well cited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_up,_Ukraine!

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Point taken, but still the video may engage people around the world to do some research about what's going on in Kiev and the rest of Ukraine.
Probably not.

I can recut this video and replace it with scenes from Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago or New York. Just show some clips of police brutalitiy and say, "Our politicians are corrupt."

I just spat my coffee over the screen, what a perfect comment!
Actually it's worse: Most people who spread the information or even created the messages don't know it's a propaganda. This makes the propaganda more deceptive than otherwise.
I am Russian and all my Ukrainian friends are "rebels" or neutral.