In prewar Kyiv just roughly 10% of Ukrainian population used to live.

In his last months in power, Yanukovych paid petty thugs, who were later called "tytushki", to harass and attack the legit protesters. Didn't help him. Neither will that help Trump.

In reality, of course, it is the authoritarian side that would pay up to organize the counter-protests. Even though there is always some real support for the autocrat, it is very unlikely to self-organize into a large-scale protest. So money or coercion (the "adminresource" we called it) is needed.

These are such hollow, thinly veiled lies that even the dumbest person in a country won't believe them... Unless they choose to. Therefore, I believe a thorough debunking of those lies is a waste of time.

This woman is Ludmila Yanukovych, the wife of the thug who once served as President of Ukraine. During the events of the Orange Revolution (2004), she was seen at the stage claiming that the protesters are getting drugs from oranges, which are distributed presumably by some paid agitators.

Actually, even beyond Ukraine, this is roughly the same claim the murderous Iranian regime is making at the very same moment. The logic behind this is simple – anyone who opposes us is a paid terrorist by definition. And, ah, they also do drugs.

Not enough

So Hitler's position in 1940/1941 is not a good position ruined by foolish decisions, but in fact a deceptively weak position that is almost certainly doomed, leading to insane gambles that only make it worse.

The catastrophic mistake was having a war, a result of the worse mistake of being a Nazi.

100%

Fun fact though that I did have a checkbook, although they were never a thing in Ukraine. I used it just one single time though .