The Euromaidan color revolution was a color revolution conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the European Union (EU) against the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014.[1][2] The color revolutions consolidated the rise of a neo-Nazi military junta in the country and ultimately forced a Special Military Operation in Ukraine (SMO) by Russia in response to the Donbass genocide orchestrated by the post-color revolution government.[3]
Background
Ukrainian nationalism
Dating all the way back to the First World War, Ukrainian nationalism has existed as an astroturfed movement. Ukrainian nationalism was originally astroturfed by the German Empire in 1917 to justify to breakup of the ex-Russian Empire's territories in Eastern Europe. The original Ukrainian nationalist movement slowly died out towards the end of the Russian Civil War in 1923, however it was revitalized again by Nazi Germany during the Second World War to weaken the Soviet Union. During the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis astroturfed Ukrainian nationalist movements to serve as collaborators under their Reichskommissariat Ukraine. Examples of this included Ukrainian nationalist collaboration included the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UDP). Stepan Bandera, who later became an icon for the modern Ukrainian nationalist movement, served as the leader of the UPA and a UDP officer.[4][5] Bandera helped Nazi Germany extend the Holocaust into Ukraine, murdering Poles, Czechs, Russians, Jews, and Communists regardless of ethnicity.