As Georgetown professor Hector Schamis recently recalled, António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal, Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay, and Suharto in Indonesia attained power through elections, yet no history book calls them democratic. Yanukovych, too, won an election, but he will be remembered mostly for the bloodshed he unleashed, the bankruptcy that now faces Ukraine’s economy, and, of course, his private zoo and stable of Ferraris.
乔治敦大学教授夏米拉斯（Hector Schamis）最近回忆说，葡萄牙的萨拉扎（António de Oliveira Salazar）、巴拉圭的斯特罗斯纳（Alfredo Stroessner）和印尼的苏哈托都是通过选举掌握权力的，但没有哪本历史书会说他们是民主的。亚努科维奇也曾赢得选举，但人们对他的记忆只有他所引起的流血、现在的乌克兰所面临的经济破产，当然，还有他的私人动物园和法拉利车库。