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

At 00:04:19,958, Character said: The endlessly
fertile black earth.

2
At 00:04:24,041, Character said: For centuries,
Ukraine'’s blessing.

3
At 00:04:27,375, Character said: But also its curse.

4
At 00:04:35,250, Character said: From East to West,
the invaders came.

5
At 00:04:38,750, Character said: First, the Mongols,

6
At 00:04:42,000, Character said: then the Poles.

7
At 00:04:50,041, Character said: Then the Turks.

8
At 00:04:52,500, Character said: Then the Russians.

9
At 00:05:01,583, Character said: Hungry for grain,
hungry for bread,

10
At 00:05:04,625, Character said: the invaders conquered the
land and reaped its harvest.

11
At 00:05:10,750, Character said: Empire after empire stained
the earth with blood and ash.

12
At 00:05:24,458, Character said: It's not an accident that the
Ukrainian national anthem

13
At 00:05:27,250, Character said: the first line is
"“Ukraine has not yet died."”

14
At 00:05:32,416, Character said: Your country is
living on the edge,

15
At 00:05:35,625, Character said: if that's how you
celebrate your existence.

16
At 00:05:37,958, Character said: We're still here!
We're not dead quite yet!

17
At 00:05:40,250, Character said: I remember,

18
At 00:05:41,916, Character said: my grandmother was from
central Russian-ruled Ukraine.

19
At 00:05:45,375, Character said: My grandfather was from
western Polish-ruled Ukraine.

20
At 00:05:48,708, Character said: She was Orthodox,
he was Catholic.

21
At 00:05:51,041, Character said: and one of the most
intense debates,

22
At 00:05:53,750, Character said: which raged almost daily
around their kitchen table was:

23
At 00:05:57,625, Character said: "“Who repressed us more?"”

24
At 00:06:01,541, Character said: In 1932 and 1933,

25
At 00:06:04,583, Character said: Stalin starved to death
millions of Ukrainian farmers

26
At 00:06:08,375, Character said: to crush the country'’s
dream of independence.

27
At 00:06:16,291, Character said: Millions more were killed
during World War II

28
At 00:06:19,500, Character said: in the Nazi-Soviet
battles over Ukraine.

29
At 00:06:23,083, Character said: Just like Stalin,

30
At 00:06:24,416, Character said: Hitler thought Ukraine was
a kind of breadbasket

31
At 00:06:26,000, Character said: that he needed for an empire.

32
At 00:06:32,125, Character said: The Soviet Union starts
when Russia and Ukraine

33
At 00:06:34,083, Character said: are brought together,

34
At 00:06:34,875, Character said: and the Soviet Union ends

35
At 00:06:35,916, Character said: when Russia and
Ukraine come apart.

36
At 00:08:04,125, Character said: Newly independent Ukraine

37
At 00:08:06,083, Character said: was a country still ruled by
its communist era bosses.

38
At 00:08:11,833, Character said: They didn't call themselves
communists anymore,

39
At 00:08:14,166, Character said: but they were still in charge.

40
At 00:10:19,750, Character said: The Orange Revolution was
very brave and very promising.

41
At 00:10:28,333, Character said: What happened next
is incredibly disillusioning

42
At 00:10:31,500, Character said: and very sad.

43
At 00:10:33,250, Character said: The government they
want comes to power

44
At 00:10:36,250, Character said: and it does so badly
at actually running the country

45
At 00:10:41,750, Character said: that Yanukovych,

46
At 00:10:43,250, Character said: who had failed to become
president fraudulently,

47
At 00:10:47,166, Character said: is then elected as
President of Ukraine.

48
At 00:11:05,791, Character said: A last minute about
turning Ukraine

49
At 00:11:07,791, Character said: has seen the government
suspend a trade pact with

50
At 00:11:10,041, Character said: the European Union just a week
before it was set to be signed.

51
At 00:11:13,875, Character said: The government has
now issued an order

52
At 00:11:15,875, Character said: calling off parliamentary
votes on the deal

53
At 00:11:18,125, Character said: saying it will renew active
dialogue with Russia.

54
At 00:11:20,791, Character said: Ukrainian President
Victor Yanukovych

55
At 00:11:22,708, Character said: refused to sign the deal

56
At 00:11:24,333, Character said: despite last-ditch efforts
by European leaders

57
At 00:11:26,583, Character said: to persuade him overnight.

58
At 00:11:28,625, Character said: That'’s prompted anger.

59
At 00:13:45,041, Character said: I live not far away from here.

60
At 00:13:46,791, Character said: So, I was able actually to come
to Maidan three times a day.

61
At 00:13:50,291, Character said: Sometimes two times a day.

62
At 00:13:51,458, Character said: Sometimes stay some
hours in the night.

63
At 00:13:54,208, Character said: I liked especially the
fact that students

64
At 00:13:56,875, Character said: wanted to have a
nonpolitical protest.

65
At 00:13:59,583, Character said: Then I became very optimistic

66
At 00:14:01,541, Character said: thinking it's much easier to
put a small country in order

67
At 00:14:06,291, Character said: than a huge country in order.

68
At 00:15:56,625, Character said: Those who tried to
save themselves

69
At 00:15:58,750, Character said: were caught, thrown to the
ground and beaten with sticks.

70
At 00:16:03,625, Character said: Some of the protesters escaped
towards St. Michael'’s Square.

71
At 00:16:10,208, Character said: A monk invited them to take
refuge in the monastery.

72
At 00:16:13,750, Character said: They barricaded the
door from within.

73
At 00:16:24,333, Character said: The young people taking
refuge in the monastery say

74
At 00:16:26,833, Character said: they do not intend to go home.

75
At 00:16:29,958, Character said: After this morning, they'’re no
longer afraid of anything.

76
At 00:17:57,791, Character said: They felt physically dutied

77
At 00:18:02,583, Character said: living in Yanukovych's Ukraine.

78
At 00:18:05,291, Character said: You couldn't live
an honorable life.

79
At 00:18:08,250, Character said: Paying bribes, accepting bribes.

80
At 00:18:11,666, Character said: You had to be corrupt.

81
At 00:18:13,708, Character said: Especially for this
younger generation.

82
At 00:18:16,166, Character said: People who came at the age

83
At 00:18:17,666, Character said: after the Soviet
Union had collapsed.

84
At 00:18:19,291, Character said: People who knew the West,

85
At 00:18:20,958, Character said: they knew you didn't
have to live like that.

86
At 00:18:23,375, Character said: And a lot of this was:
"“I will not live this way.

87
At 00:18:27,583, Character said: I refuse to live this way."”

88
At 00:20:35,041, Character said: When you have a revolution,
whether peaceful or violent,

89
At 00:20:39,041, Character said: you have of course

90
At 00:20:40,583, Character said: destruction of so called
peaceful rhythm of life,

91
At 00:20:43,541, Character said: because you don't know
what to expect next.

92
At 00:20:45,708, Character said: You don't know how the
protest will finish,

93
At 00:20:48,125, Character said: and you don't know whether
it is dangerous or not

94
At 00:20:50,791, Character said: to be next to the protest.

95
At 00:27:52,041, Character said: Tetyana Chornovol told
police her car was stopped

96
At 00:27:54,458, Character said: by a gang of men near
Kyiv just after midnight.

97
At 00:27:57,208, Character said: She was dragged
from the vehicle,

98
At 00:27:58,708, Character said: assaulted and left in a ditch.

99
At 00:28:00,250, Character said: She suffered a broken nose,
concussion and numerous bruises.

100
At 00:28:03,125, Character said: The reporter had just
published an article

101
At 00:28:04,625, Character said: on the personal wealth of
Ukraine'’s interior minister.

102
At 00:29:00,875, Character said: Ukrainian members of
parliament on Thursday

103
At 00:29:02,833, Character said: voted for a draft law

104
At 00:29:04,375, Character said: that threatens
fundamental freedoms

105
At 00:29:06,166, Character said: including the right to assembly.

106
At 00:29:08,125, Character said: Opposition members tried to
block the vote but failed.

107
At 00:32:01,333, Character said: The main two things
which shocked me

108
At 00:32:03,625, Character said: that at some point, people
lost sense of humor on Maidan.

109
At 00:32:07,291, Character said: And almost next day they
lost fear of death.

110
At 00:32:21,500, Character said: This is still something
which puzzles me

111
At 00:32:24,708, Character said: because I cannot decipher the
psychological instruments

112
At 00:32:29,416, Character said: which force people to forget
about security, safety,

113
At 00:32:32,500, Character said: about their personal life,

114
At 00:32:34,083, Character said: personal obligations to their
families and to the closed ones,

115
At 00:32:38,416, Character said: and how they become ready
to die for their country

116
At 00:32:43,333, Character said: which was always corrupt.

117
At 00:37:27,750, Character said: The BBC can'’t independently
verify this footage

118
At 00:37:31,333, Character said: but video has emerged
which appears to show

119
At 00:37:33,833, Character said: president Yanukovych's entourage

120
At 00:37:36,000, Character said: fleeing from his luxurious
mansion outside Kyiv...

121
At 00:38:15,041, Character said: This afternoon crowds
of curious Ukrainians

122
At 00:38:18,250, Character said: streamed into Yanukovych'’s
sprawling compound.

123
At 00:38:20,916, Character said: It'’s a huge estate. I mean,

124
At 00:38:22,708, Character said: they say it'’s half the
size of Monaco,

125
At 00:38:25,541, Character said: costs millions of
Euros in making.

126
At 00:38:28,250, Character said: A lot of protesters
are very unhappy

127
At 00:38:30,458, Character said: that Yanukovych had
such a place to live

128
At 00:38:32,500, Character said: given that living standards
in this country are so low

129
At 00:38:34,833, Character said: that average monthly salary
is around 300 Euros.

130
At 00:38:38,208, Character said: What was the level of
Yanukovych'’s corruption?

131
At 00:38:40,708, Character said: it'’s hard to compare in hard
numbers how Yanukovych

132
At 00:38:43,625, Character said: ranks to his predecessors,

133
At 00:38:45,250, Character said: but Yanukovych seems to have
been in a class by...