Illiberal nationalism is one of the movement’s driving elements, owing to its widely shared and understandable anti-Russia appeal. And, though that nationalism may yet be directed against Ukraine’s Russians, Poles, and Jews, as it was in the past, the rest of the movement would resist such a turn (which may well explain why it has not happened).
因此，观察者应该不拘泥于过去、不忽略现在。迈丹运动——尽管一些参与者此前有过不良案底——是真正的反对腐败残暴政权的群众起义，其背后有扩张主义俄罗斯的支持。狭隘民族主义是这场运动背后的推动力之一，因为这场运动有人所共有、亦不难理解的反俄诉求。此外，尽管民族主义可能如过去一样被引导为反对乌克兰的俄罗斯人、波兰人和犹太人，但迈丹运动的其他部分将能抵制这一转变（这也很好地解释了为什么没有变成这样）。