The Maidan infantry assault
Since hearing that there’d been 47 protesters killed in one day on the Maidan in Ukraine, shortly before President Yanukovych was forced from office, I’d idly wondered how it happened. Then, a couple of years ago (this blog is seldom timely), I ran across the video compiled by Evelina Nefertari which takes video clips taken by wide variety of people on that day and combines them into a single time-synchronized video stream showing many clips simultaneously.
The killings are commonly described as a massacre, but watching the video (and viewing maps and summaries of the action), a very different phrase seems much more apt: an infantry assault – and not an assault on the protesters; an assault by the protesters.