Oliver Stone’s ‘Ukraine on Fire’
People’s Revolution or Coup d’état?
Questioning the mainstream narrative that Russia impulsively invaded Ukraine without any sort of historical provocation is considered sacrilegious. Nevertheless, seeking a critical analysis that might elucidate this tragic event compelled me to watch Oliver Stone’s ‘Ukraine on Fire,’ a documentary that chronicles events leading up to the 2014 Maidan uprising and the overthrow of Ukraine’s former democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych.
Stone’s film challenges the notion that a 2014 pro-western revolution was incited solely by Russian pressure to reject an economic trade agreement with the EU. Rather, one is led to consider how regime change, engineered by the U.S. State Department and scripted and staged by far-right neo-nazi militias (Svoboda and the Right Sector) facilitated a U.S.-NATO geopolitical agenda.
There is always a perversion of history and fact. Somewhere within these opposing narratives lies the truth.
