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French TV Channel Canal+ released the 56 minutes new documentary "Les Masques de la Revolution" (The Masks of Revolution) about 2014 Maidan events in Ukraine despite Kiev's request to take it off the air.
The film was broadcast on Monday at 10.30 p.m. local time (21:30 GMT).
The synopsis to "The Masks of Revolution" directed by Paul Moreira as posted on the Canal+ website reads that the movie presents a special investigation into the events that unfolded in Ukraine in 2014. In particular, it portrays the actions by far-right radical groups backed by the United States and the violence in the Ukrainian southern city of Odessa in May, 2014 incited by nationalists.
"Paul Moreira reveals the real faces of the Ukrainian revolution," the press review by the Telecable Sat broadcaster reads.
On Sunday, the Ukrainian Embassy in France in Paris asked Channel Canal+ not to broadcast the film as it gives the viewer "a false picture on the situation in Ukraine," in a message posted on the diplomatic mission's page on Facebook, which was later deleted. Paul Moreira is known due to his journalist investigations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
French TV Channel Releases Maidan Documentary Despite Kiev's Protest
There is a saying: to shoot your own foot. That was basically what Ukrainian Embassy did: they raised a lot of noise even before the documentary got on air and due to it made a good advertisement and provided a huge success for the documentary. It had a bombshell effect in France, spectators were shocked, nobody expected to see anything like that. Before it was aired the author was receiving threats through social media on the Internet.
About the documentary:
āRevolution in Ukraine became a monster which pretty soon will turn against its creatorsā. The author takes the masks off all the participants of Maidan revolution:
- those who directed the current Ukrainian rulers;
- those, who supported it with weapons: āRight Sectorā and āAzov Batallionā.
The documentary also shows the Odessa tragedy and burned civiliansā bodies. For the first time on French TV one could hear real definitions: Nationalists instead of āfighters for European choiceā and militias instead of āarmed unitsā.
An activist of EuroMaidan in Odessa is talking: āFrom my point of view those bastards, who wanted to pull us into the Russian World, they deserve such kind of death [to be burned alive!]. I donāt regret it even for a second. Too bad, many of them managed to run away and were not burnt in the House of Trade Unions in Odessaā.
Special block of the documentary is about American politicians, which made the coup in Ukraine possible: Joe Biden, John McCain, Victoria Nuland.
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Ukraineās authorities have urged a French broadcaster to take a documentary titled āMasks of Revolutionā off the air. They claim the movie misrepresents Maidan events, and have a list of their own suggestions for what needs to be shown.
Ukrainian embassy gave a list of suggestions about what the French broadcaster should show about 2014 Maidan events,āhoping that one day these movies will be presented on Canal +ā
The filmmaker, Paul Moreira,has responded to the accusations, saying his film wasācontrary to the commonly accepted narrativeābut the reaction still shocked him.
āI knew I was going to meet a strong opposition, would be accused of playing into the hands of Putin, of using elements of propaganda. I didnāt expect to meet such denial, bordering on hysteriaā¦ I was called a āterroristā in the pay of the Russian secret services. [They are] urging that the film be banned.
āWrong' Maidan: Ukraine demands that Franceās Canal+ TV take hard-hitting documentary off air
Next Monday the French channel is planning to repeat the documentary once again.
(an announcement for the documentary)
(French language with possibility of adding English subtitles)
How come western democracies havenāt raised their voice in protest?
Most likely because these Ukrainian nationalist militias actually played a significant role in a much larger scale war. The Ukrainian revolution was strongly supported by the US diplomacy.
In the new cold war that opposes Russia to the USA, Ukraine is a decisive pawn. A tactical pawn to contain Putinās ambitions.
Ukraine, masks of the revolution
The film was broadcast on Monday at 10.30 p.m. local time (21:30 GMT).
The synopsis to "The Masks of Revolution" directed by Paul Moreira as posted on the Canal+ website reads that the movie presents a special investigation into the events that unfolded in Ukraine in 2014. In particular, it portrays the actions by far-right radical groups backed by the United States and the violence in the Ukrainian southern city of Odessa in May, 2014 incited by nationalists.
"Paul Moreira reveals the real faces of the Ukrainian revolution," the press review by the Telecable Sat broadcaster reads.
On Sunday, the Ukrainian Embassy in France in Paris asked Channel Canal+ not to broadcast the film as it gives the viewer "a false picture on the situation in Ukraine," in a message posted on the diplomatic mission's page on Facebook, which was later deleted. Paul Moreira is known due to his journalist investigations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
French TV Channel Releases Maidan Documentary Despite Kiev's Protest
There is a saying: to shoot your own foot. That was basically what Ukrainian Embassy did: they raised a lot of noise even before the documentary got on air and due to it made a good advertisement and provided a huge success for the documentary. It had a bombshell effect in France, spectators were shocked, nobody expected to see anything like that. Before it was aired the author was receiving threats through social media on the Internet.
About the documentary:
āRevolution in Ukraine became a monster which pretty soon will turn against its creatorsā. The author takes the masks off all the participants of Maidan revolution:
- those who directed the current Ukrainian rulers;
- those, who supported it with weapons: āRight Sectorā and āAzov Batallionā.
The documentary also shows the Odessa tragedy and burned civiliansā bodies. For the first time on French TV one could hear real definitions: Nationalists instead of āfighters for European choiceā and militias instead of āarmed unitsā.
An activist of EuroMaidan in Odessa is talking: āFrom my point of view those bastards, who wanted to pull us into the Russian World, they deserve such kind of death [to be burned alive!]. I donāt regret it even for a second. Too bad, many of them managed to run away and were not burnt in the House of Trade Unions in Odessaā.
Special block of the documentary is about American politicians, which made the coup in Ukraine possible: Joe Biden, John McCain, Victoria Nuland.
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Ukraineās authorities have urged a French broadcaster to take a documentary titled āMasks of Revolutionā off the air. They claim the movie misrepresents Maidan events, and have a list of their own suggestions for what needs to be shown.
Ukrainian embassy gave a list of suggestions about what the French broadcaster should show about 2014 Maidan events,āhoping that one day these movies will be presented on Canal +ā
The filmmaker, Paul Moreira,has responded to the accusations, saying his film wasācontrary to the commonly accepted narrativeābut the reaction still shocked him.
āI knew I was going to meet a strong opposition, would be accused of playing into the hands of Putin, of using elements of propaganda. I didnāt expect to meet such denial, bordering on hysteriaā¦ I was called a āterroristā in the pay of the Russian secret services. [They are] urging that the film be banned.
āWrong' Maidan: Ukraine demands that Franceās Canal+ TV take hard-hitting documentary off air
Next Monday the French channel is planning to repeat the documentary once again.
(an announcement for the documentary)
(French language with possibility of adding English subtitles)
How come western democracies havenāt raised their voice in protest?
Most likely because these Ukrainian nationalist militias actually played a significant role in a much larger scale war. The Ukrainian revolution was strongly supported by the US diplomacy.
In the new cold war that opposes Russia to the USA, Ukraine is a decisive pawn. A tactical pawn to contain Putinās ambitions.
Ukraine, masks of the revolution