True that the western regions were the strongest supporters of the overthrow, but there were plenty from the more central areas too. Of course, I know that Russia has a huge naval base in Crimea, and really Crimea should never really have been part of Ukraine to begin with. I can also see how the Russian speaking areas in the east would see what happened as a coup, and a good argument could be made that it was, although not in the way we normally think of a coup by a faction of the military. It was instigated by a popular movement. On the other hand, there were some pretty unsavory, far right characters mixed in with the crowd.

Esperanto as a lingua franca in the Soviet Union? I can't believe that. There may be people who can speak Esperanto in Ukraine, and if both of them happened to meet in the Maidan, maybe they took the chance to practice. smile The lingua franca of the Soviet Union was Russian.

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