Breaking.Point.The.War.for.Democracy.in.Ukraine.2017.WEBRip.x264-ION10 Movie Subtitles

1 00:04:19,958 --> 00:04:24,000 The endlessly fertile black earth. 2 00:04:24,041 --> 00:04:27,333 For centuries, Ukraine'’s blessing. 3 00:04:27,375 --> 00:04:31,083 But also its curse. 4 00:04:35,250 --> 00:04:38,708 From East to West, the invaders came. 5 00:04:38,750 --> 00:04:41,625 First, the Mongols, 6 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,500 then the Poles. 7 00:04:50,041 --> 00:04:52,458 Then the Turks. 8 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,958 Then the Russians. 9 00:05:01,583 --> 00:05:04,583 Hungry for grain, hungry for bread, 10 00:05:04,625 --> 00:05:09,500 the invaders conquered the land and reaped its harvest. 11 00:05:10,750 --> 00:05:16,125 Empire after empire stained the earth with blood and ash. 12 00:05:24,458 --> 00:05:27,208 It's not an accident that the Ukrainian national anthem 13 00:05:27,250 --> 00:05:30,416 the first line is "“Ukraine has not yet died."” 14 00:05:32,416 --> 00:05:35,583 Your country is living on the edge, 15 00:05:35,625 --> 00:05:37,916 if that's how you celebrate your existence. 16 00:05:37,958 --> 00:05:40,208 We're still here! We're not dead quite yet! 17 00:05:40,250 --> 00:05:41,875 I remember, 18 00:05:41,916 --> 00:05:45,125 my grandmother was from central Russian-ruled Ukraine. 19 00:05:45,375 --> 00:05:48,666 My grandfather was from western Polish-ruled Ukraine. 20 00:05:48,708 --> 00:05:51,000 She was Orthodox, he was Catholic. 21 00:05:51,041 --> 00:05:53,708 and one of the most intense debates, 22 00:05:53,750 --> 00:05:57,583 which raged almost daily around their kitchen table was: 23 00:05:57,625 --> 00:06:00,125 "“Who repressed us more?"” 24 00:06:01,541 --> 00:06:04,541 In 1932 and 1933, 25 00:06:04,583 --> 00:06:08,333 Stalin starved to death millions of Ukrainian farmers 26 00:06:08,375 --> 00:06:11,958 to crush the country'’s dream of independence. 27 00:06:16,291 --> 00:06:19,458 Millions more were killed during World War II 28 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:22,500 in the Nazi-Soviet battles over Ukraine. 29 00:06:23,083 --> 00:06:24,375 Just like Stalin, 30 00:06:24,416 --> 00:06:25,958 Hitler thought Ukraine was a kind of breadbasket 31 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,875 that he needed for an empire. 32 00:06:32,125 --> 00:06:34,041 The Soviet Union starts when Russia and Ukraine 33 00:06:34,083 --> 00:06:34,833 are brought together, 34 00:06:34,875 --> 00:06:35,875 and the Soviet Union ends 35 00:06:35,916 --> 00:06:38,875 when Russia and Ukraine come apart. 36 00:08:04,125 --> 00:08:06,041 Newly independent Ukraine 37 00:08:06,083 --> 00:08:11,458 was a country still ruled by its communist era bosses. 38 00:08:11,833 --> 00:08:14,125 They didn't call themselves communists anymore, 39 00:08:14,166 --> 00:08:17,666 but they were still in charge. 40 00:10:19,750 --> 00:10:27,458 The Orange Revolution was very brave and very promising. 41 00:10:28,333 --> 00:10:31,458 What happened next is incredibly disillusioning 42 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:33,208 and very sad. 43 00:10:33,250 --> 00:10:36,208 The government they want comes to power 44 00:10:36,250 --> 00:10:41,708 and it does so badly at actually running the country 45 00:10:41,750 --> 00:10:43,208 that Yanukovych, 46 00:10:43,250 --> 00:10:47,125 who had failed to become president fraudulently, 47 00:10:47,166 --> 00:10:50,750 is then elected as President of Ukraine. 48 00:11:05,791 --> 00:11:07,750 A last minute about turning Ukraine 49 00:11:07,791 --> 00:11:10,000 has seen the government suspend a trade pact with 50 00:11:10,041 --> 00:11:13,833 the European Union just a week before it was set to be signed. 51 00:11:13,875 --> 00:11:15,833 The government has now issued an order 52 00:11:15,875 --> 00:11:18,083 calling off parliamentary votes on the deal 53 00:11:18,125 --> 00:11:20,750 saying it will renew active dialogue with Russia. 54 00:11:20,791 --> 00:11:22,666 Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych 55 00:11:22,708 --> 00:11:24,291 refused to sign the deal 56 00:11:24,333 --> 00:11:26,541 despite last-ditch efforts by European leaders 57 00:11:26,583 --> 00:11:28,583 to persuade him overnight. 58 00:11:28,625 --> 00:11:31,041 That'’s prompted anger. 59 00:13:45,041 --> 00:13:46,750 I live not far away from here. 60 00:13:46,791 --> 00:13:50,250 So, I was able actually to come to Maidan three times a day. 61 00:13:50,291 --> 00:13:51,416 Sometimes two times a day. 62 00:13:51,458 --> 00:13:54,166 Sometimes stay some hours in the night. 63 00:13:54,208 --> 00:13:56,833 I liked especially the fact that students 64 00:13:56,875 --> 00:13:59,541 wanted to have a nonpolitical protest. 65 00:13:59,583 --> 00:14:01,500 Then I became very optimistic 66 00:14:01,541 --> 00:14:06,250 thinking it's much easier to put a small country in order 67 00:14:06,291 --> 00:14:08,625 than a huge country in order. 68 00:15:56,625 --> 00:15:58,708 Those who tried to save themselves 69 00:15:58,750 --> 00:16:02,083 were caught, thrown to the ground and beaten with sticks. 70 00:16:03,625 --> 00:16:08,000 Some of the protesters escaped towards St. Michael'’s Square. 71 00:16:10,208 --> 00:16:13,708 A monk invited them to take refuge in the monastery. 72 00:16:13,750 --> 00:16:17,041 They barricaded the door from within. 73 00:16:24,333 --> 00:16:26,791 The young people taking refuge in the monastery say 74 00:16:26,833 --> 00:16:28,958 they do not intend to go home. 75 00:16:29,958 --> 00:16:34,958 After this morning, they'’re no longer afraid of anything. 76 00:17:57,791 --> 00:18:02,541 They felt physically dutied 77 00:18:02,583 --> 00:18:05,250 living in Yanukovych's Ukraine. 78 00:18:05,291 --> 00:18:08,208 You couldn't live an honorable life. 79 00:18:08,250 --> 00:18:11,625 Paying bribes, accepting bribes. 80 00:18:11,666 --> 00:18:13,666 You had to be corrupt. 81 00:18:13,708 --> 00:18:16,125 Especially for this younger generation. 82 00:18:16,166 --> 00:18:17,625 People who came at the age 83 00:18:17,666 --> 00:18:19,250 after the Soviet Union had collapsed. 84 00:18:19,291 --> 00:18:20,916 People who knew the West, 85 00:18:20,958 --> 00:18:23,333 they knew you didn't have to live like that. 86 00:18:23,375 --> 00:18:27,541 And a lot of this was: "“I will not live this way. 87 00:18:27,583 --> 00:18:29,958 I refuse to live this way."” 88 00:20:35,041 --> 00:20:39,000 When you have a revolution, whether peaceful or violent, 89 00:20:39,041 --> 00:20:40,541 you have of course 90 00:20:40,583 --> 00:20:43,500 destruction of so called peaceful rhythm of life, 91 00:20:43,541 --> 00:20:45,666 because you don't know what to expect next. 92 00:20:45,708 --> 00:20:48,083 You don't know how the protest will finish, 93 00:20:48,125 --> 00:20:50,750 and you don't know whether it is dangerous or not 94 00:20:50,791 --> 00:20:52,250 to be next to the protest. 95 00:27:52,041 --> 00:27:54,416 Tetyana Chornovol told police her car was stopped 96 00:27:54,458 --> 00:27:57,166 by a gang of men near Kyiv just after midnight. 97 00:27:57,208 --> 00:27:58,666 She was dragged from the vehicle, 98 00:27:58,708 --> 00:28:00,208 assaulted and left in a ditch. 99 00:28:00,250 --> 00:28:03,083 She suffered a broken nose, concussion and numerous bruises. 100 00:28:03,125 --> 00:28:04,583 The reporter had just published an article 101 00:28:04,625 --> 00:28:08,000 on the personal wealth of Ukraine'’s interior minister. 102 00:29:00,875 --> 00:29:02,791 Ukrainian members of parliament on Thursday 103 00:29:02,833 --> 00:29:04,333 voted for a draft law 104 00:29:04,375 --> 00:29:06,125 that threatens fundamental freedoms 105 00:29:06,166 --> 00:29:08,083 including the right to assembly. 106 00:29:08,125 --> 00:29:11,291 Opposition members tried to block the vote but failed. 107 00:32:01,333 --> 00:32:03,583 The main two things which shocked me 108 00:32:03,625 --> 00:32:07,250 that at some point, people lost sense of humor on Maidan. 109 00:32:07,291 --> 00:32:11,833 And almost next day they lost fear of death. 110 00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:24,666 This is still something which puzzles me 111 00:32:24,708 --> 00:32:28,791 because I cannot decipher the psychological instruments 112 00:32:29,416 --> 00:32:32,458 which force people to forget about security, safety, 113 00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:34,041 about their personal life, 114 00:32:34,083 --> 00:32:38,375 personal obligations to their families and to the closed ones, 115 00:32:38,416 --> 00:32:43,291 and how they become ready to die for their country 116 00:32:43,333 --> 00:32:45,791 which was always corrupt. 117 00:37:27,750 --> 00:37:31,291 The BBC can'’t independently verify this footage 118 00:37:31,333 --> 00:37:33,791 but video has emerged which appears to show 119 00:37:33,833 --> 00:37:35,958 president Yanukovych's entourage 120 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,958 fleeing from his luxurious mansion outside Kyiv... 121 00:38:15,041 --> 00:38:18,208 This afternoon crowds of curious Ukrainians 122 00:38:18,250 --> 00:38:20,875 streamed into Yanukovych'’s sprawling compound. 123 00:38:20,916 --> 00:38:22,666 It'’s a huge estate. I mean, 124 00:38:22,708 --> 00:38:25,500 they say it'’s half the size of Monaco, 125 00:38:25,541 --> 00:38:28,208 costs millions of Euros in making. 126 00:38:28,250 --> 00:38:30,416 A lot of protesters are very unhappy 127 00:38:30,458 --> 00:38:32,458 that Yanukovych had such a place to live 128 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:34,791 given that living standards in this country are so low 129 00:38:34,833 --> 00:38:38,166 that average monthly salary is around 300 Euros. 130 00:38:38,208 --> 00:38:40,666 What was the level of Yanukovych'’s corruption? 131 00:38:40,708 --> 00:38:43,583 it'’s hard to compare in hard numbers how Yanukovych 132 00:38:43,625 --> 00:38:45,208 ranks to his predecessors, 133 00:38:45,250 --> 00:38:48,916 but Yanukovych seems to have been in a class by...