Stanchik, S.S. The youth organizations as a force source for the “colored revolutions”.

Abstract: The colored revolutions in the post-Soviet territory were successful mostly thanks to use of the youth organization by the revolutionary opposition in order to throw down the ruling group. The goal of this article is to show how schoolchildren and students become weapons in the arms of the revolutionaries. It should be noted that the so-called “non-violent” turnovers, which took place in the former USSR republics are quite similar to the “velvet” revolutions of 1989/ It was to a great extent thanks to the youth, that the opposition had managed to throw down the Communism in some Eastern European states. In particular, during the revolution in 2000 in Serbia the youth organization “Otpor” has became the force source, which the oppo sition used to get rid of Slobodan Milosevic. The organizers of the “colored” riots took much from the experience from their “velvet” colleagues. The student movements “Kmara”, “Pora!” and “Kel-Kel” were modeled similarly to the Serbian “Otpor”. The members of the youth groups took part in various street protest actions. They were the backbone for the angry mob of demonstrators, they managed and coordinated the crowd. During the “orange revolution” in the Ukraine the movement “Pora!” organized tent camps and guaranteed order and security in them. The organizers of the “colored revolutions” used the youth, since the youth can be easily manipulated. The students and the schoolchildren due to lack of experience in life are ready to do whatever they are told to do for the questionable revolutionary ideals. Therefore, one may come to the conclusion that the youth organizations became the key instrument for the facilitation of riots and revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kirgizia.

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