In 2004, a sea of orange protesters in Ukraine successfully overturned a rigged election
When a fraudulent election threatened to steal their vote in 2004, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians donned orange clothing and took to the streets in a massive display of peaceful defiance.
In late 2004, Ukraine was rocked by the Orange Revolution after a presidential runoff was marred by widespread corruption and voter intimidation. Protesters wearing the campaign color of candidate Viktor Yushchenko occupied Kyiv's Independence Square for weeks in freezing temperatures.
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