[sras-me]

>I’ve been told they are all paid

Surely he didn't mean all the people present there are paid. As far as I understand, when you want some initiate a political change, you pay influencers, and they actually go an convince/gaslight the masses about the need for change.

So all the people who were present there might not be paid, but a lot of prime movers and the require infrastructure might be paid by the interested party.

[artem2471]

And the masses are so stupid to do just as they told.

I don’t know what he “meant”, that’s what he said. There was a very clear external event that triggered Maidan, there was another event that made it massive.

The payment of influencers is just as a massive contribution into protests is just a speculation