"The situation is even worse for the “protection of the Russian-speaking population.” Thousands of corpses on both sides – and almost all of them were Russian-speaking in life. People whose homes were taken away, forced refugees too. Adherents of the “Russian Spring” can say as much as they want that the fate of these people would have been even worse without their intervention. However, anyone familiar with the real situation, and not just TV mythology, knows that before armed separatists appeared in Ukraine, the “discrimination” against Russian speakers came down to the necessity to use Ukrainian for state business and to learn Ukrainian history in school. And that’s it. But all the current death, blood, pain, tears, and destruction are exclusively the consequence of the “protection of the Russian world”."
https://euromaidanpress.com/2014/09/01/the-russian-spring-and-its-outcome/
