Ukraine"s president-elect Viktor Yanukovych...

The reason for this change of heart is best explained by a popular saying, "Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan." When the Orange Revolution unfolded in 2004-2005 and Yanukovych was labeled the Kremlin"s puppet in all the media from Vancouver to Warsaw, the West was unanimous in its determination to prevent him from winning an election.

However, the Orange government made such a mess that the West simply could not continue hailing it as heroes and demonizing Yanukovych. Recently dubbed the embodiment of evil by Poland"s newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Yanukovych has been miraculously transformed into an ordinary politician.

However, politicians cannot do what the media can get away with. Only very defiant leaders like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez or Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dare to call the prime minister of an independent state a puppet if they are aware that no one else shares their opinion. The leaders of the so-called free countries

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