This left the regime to choose between using force to quell the growing resistance or cutting its losses. By refusing to leave the streets and squares of Kyiv, Ukraine’s mass volunteer army of democrats forced our country’s gray old men of the past to retreat into the past.
很明显，当权政权希望那些集会抗议11月21日舞弊选举的民众最终在心灰意冷中自动解散。但结果事与愿违。政府不得不在两难之间做出抉择：是使用武力镇压不断上扬的抵抗情绪，还是降低他们的损失。乌克兰聚集的民主主义者组成的志愿军拒绝离开基辅街道和广场，迫使我国昔日头发灰白的老人再次使出旧招。