Russia's War Against Ukraine
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George Weigel: Unhappy anniversary
Portraits of heroes of Heavenly Hundred at the monument for killed Maidan activists in Kyiv on Feb. 20 during memorial ceremony marking the first anniversary of the killings of demonstrators in the final act of a dramatic uprising around Independance Square.
In late 1990, a year after the Revolution of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe, the peoples of the newly self-liberated countries, who had suffered under the Soviet jackboot since the endgame of World War II, could look back on a year of solid achievement while looking forward to a more prosperous future.