Eastern European color revolutions arose from stolen elections and foreign support.

Evidence

An “orange revolution” overthrew Ukraine’s president in 2004. Leonid Kuchma (former Soviet director of military production) had come to power more or less democratically in 1994. In 2004, however, his regime’s agents stole a national election from the opposition party and poisoned its candidate, Victor Yushchenko, with dioxin. In November, supported by foreign observers and neighboring states, thousands of demonstrators occupied the public squares of Kiev, the capital. Wearing orange and carrying orange flags, they sang and chanted, blocked entry to government buildings, and overthrew Kuchma. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1260

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1260
• XREF: connects to: Election fraud by a post-Soviet president triggered the Georgian Rose Revolution. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1258

Broader Connections

• Election fraud by a post-Soviet president triggered the Georgian Rose Revolution. #exemplifies (0.95) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1258