A tiny far-right fringe, not the population, dominated the Maidan’s militant core

Evidence

Nationalist militants put up a giant portrait of him on the city council building so that his huge face looked out upon the Maidan Square. It has always been wrong to claim (as some propaganda narratives do) that in 2013, significant numbers of the Ukrainian population were on the extreme right, or even that the country had more of these violent groups than other countries in the region. But in the special context of the Maidan occupation, the far-night nationalists managed to punch above their weight. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 492

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An armed minority inside a protest can veto settlement deals for the whole country — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 513; Armed resistance, not civil disobedience, defeated the state’s final crackdown on Maidan — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 509; A tiny radical group provoked massive government attention at all levels — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1221 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• A tiny radical group provoked massive government attention at all levels #exemplifies (0.85) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1221