kiev_2014_cairo_2011I loved this article. That's all I'll say. Well, except for what I write below.

"[Dr. Ezzat] Obviously, I was watching the Ukrainian version of the Tahrir Square revolution. Is it a coincidence? Is it only my imagination?... I don't think so.

"Though I've never been to Ukraine or Russia before but the minute I started following the news of the huge protests in Kiev, I felt like I was somehow connected /related in a strange way to this Ukrainian revolution."

This article, from Dr. Ezzat's website, was published on March 3, 2014, so this is before Crimea dissociated from the Ukraine and chose to join Russia. The main point here is that he notes how the Ukraine situation is "eerily" similar to the Egypt "revolution", and Maidan Square was just like Tahrir Square, three years ago.

Ukraine... Egypt: "Eerily" similar... could it be "eerily" the same organizations are behind both of these "uprisings"?

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Ukraine vs. Egypt: Chaos in Progress

Though I've never been to Ukraine or Russia before but the minute I started following the news of the huge protests in Kiev, I felt like I was somehow connected /related in a strange way to this Ukrainian revolution.

This whole revolution thing sounded not so unfamiliar to me.

As days went by and as the violence and the smoke that came out of the heavily fortified Maidan/independence square got heavier I thought I was looking at a retrospective of the Egyptian revolution with all the violent clashes that took place in Tahrir Square during the winter of 2011-2012.

My Egyptian eyes were following the fluid situation in Kiev with a funny sense of uneasy prediction. I felt like I knew how things were going to unfold in that Ukrainian scene, simply because I had seen it happen before in my own country, Egypt.

Of course I know that because we had a recent revolution in Egypt doesn't necessarily make it the blueprint for all revolutions to follow across the globe.

But the way things evolved inside Independence Square and the pattern of violence and chaos that ensued around Ukraine left me in no doubt.

The same illustrated flyer was handed out to Egyptian and Ukrainian protesters, it reads "Essential clothing and gears for violent protests".

I mean even the pamphlets handed out to the Ukrainian protesters to instruct them on how to protect themselves from the tear gas beside other combat precautions were the same handed out to the Egyptian protesters in Tahrir square only the illustration language was different.

Clearly, I was watching the Ukrainian version of the Tahrir Square revolution.   Is it a coincidence? Is it only my imagination?  … I don't think so.

Every day I followed the Ukrainian news with a silly grin on my face for I knew, beforehand, what the headlines were going to be.

I knew that whoever called for the protests are groups of so called political activists, very active on the internet social media sites.

Srdja Popovic

Of course those activists have strong links to western NGOs and so called freedom organizations. And also some of the leaders of those activists have been trained in Europe on how to launch mass protests.

Also Egyptian activists who sparked the first mass protests on January 25 2011, like April 6th movement, have been trained by Srđa Popović, a Serbian activist who's been cooperating with US intelligence companies in clandestine missions .

Popovic is the leader of the student movement Otpor that helped topple Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. He is also the director of Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) which is very active in Eastern European countries including Ukraine.
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