Revolution of Dignity drew demarcation line between Russian-Soviet past and post-Soviet period, - Poroshenko

The Euromaidan revolution has put a demarcation line between the Russian-Soviet past and the post-Soviet period.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said in his speech on the occasion of Dignity and Freedom Day, Censor.NET reports citing 112 Ukraine.

"The Revolution of Dignity drew a clear demarcation line both in space and time and marked a prominent divide that separates and alienates our Pax Europea from their Pax Russica," he said.

Ukraine's Dignity and Freedom Day is celebrated every year on Nov. 21 (in accordance with a presidential decree of Nov. 13, 2014).

It was on Nov. 21, 2013, that the mass protests started in Kyiv on Nezalezhnosti Square in support of the European integration of Ukraine, later named Euromaidan.