The only sense in which they were decisive is that having seen that he could
not hold on to power they abandoned him and so enabled the parliament to act to
impeach him and form a transitional government. However that happened because
of events in Maidan Square. The oligarch theory has the causal sequence wrong.
The main oligarchs concerned dumped Yanukovych only when they felt that they
would be on the losing side and subject to sanctions that would threaten their
west connections..
See my take here;
http://digitaljournal.com/news/politics/did-the-ukrainian-oligarchs-topple-yanukovych/article/374993
Even if they had not jumped ship there were other oligarchs that would still
rule. After all the two front runners for president are both oligarchs:
http://digitaljournal.com/news/politics/op-ed-which-oligarch-will-ukraine-pick-as-president/article/378818
Cheers, ken
On Sunday, March 30, 2014 12:13:39 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
The dominant left narrative is that Viktor Yanukovych was Ukraine’s
version of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, a “popularly elected” (as Stephen
F. Cohen puts it) president whose decision to reject a deal with the EU
in favor of a better deal with Russia made him the target of a
conspiracy of local fascists and Western imperialism. Furthermore, if
not for protesters being killed by snipers “hired” by the Euromaidan
protest leaders, the “putsch” would have not succeeded. This is the
story put forward by RT.com and echoed by WSWS.org, Global Research, and
other websites too numerous to mention.
A deeper investigation reveals that it was his own erstwhile backers who
were decisive in his ouster. In a maneuver that evokes Mubarak’s removal
in Egypt, elements of the “pro-Russian” oligarchy decided to throw
Yanukovych to the wolves in order to deflate the mass movement and make
continued oligarchic rule possible. As Don Fabrizio put it in Giuseppi
di Lampedusa’s The Leopard: “Unless we ourselves take a hand now,
they’ll foist a republic on us. If we want things to stay as they are,
things will have to change.”
full:
http://louisproyect.org/2014/03/30/yanukovychs-ouster-the-myth-and-the-reality/
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