re: #138 Justanotherhuman

Really, just really, how stupid is the Yanukovych govt?

Feb. 1, 3:15 p.m. Police on Jan. 31 said that they have preliminary evidence based on dozens of terrabytes of data that the EuroMaidan movement was planned from the outset.

During a news conference, Oleksandr Hnativ, deputy head of the investigation department of the Interior Ministry, said that based on information gleaned from servers it seized on Dec. 9 from an information technology firm next door to the opposition Batkivshchyna Party headquarters in Podil, that the Nov. 21 demonstration — which marks the first day when people took to the streets in central Kyiv when Ukraine rejected an Association Agreement with the European Union — was “not spontaneous and was planned in advance.”

He added that that one of the scenarios that Batkivshchyna had envisioned was a “forceful” development of events during which “force would be used against protesters which would then cause widespread (public) anger and undermine the credibility of the current government and President (Viktor Yanukovych).”

Hnativ concluded that the data has been sent for further forensic study to determine if a coup d’etat was attempted.

In parallel, the State Security Service is also investigating whether an “attempt to seize state power” was made by an unspecified number of politicians, according to a statement the KGB-successor agency made on its website on Dec. 8. — Mark Rachkevych

kyivpost.com

That’s not stupid, not really. The Euromaidan people know its BS, but they aren’t the audience for this. The audience is Yanukovych’s supporters and those who really haven’t firmly taken a side yet. It is intended to inflame his own supporters and prepare them for the task of crushing Euromaidan while discouraging those who have not yet fully sided with Euromaidan from doing so.