This comparison is aggravated by the fact that Catalonia has no reasons to complain about constitutional integrity of Spain. In Ukraine, however the power has been taken anti-constitutionally, in a violent coup d'etat. Its previous, democratically elected president and pro-president MPs had to flee for their lives and the justices of the constitutional court fired and prosecuted. All citizens of Ukraine are fully within their rights to refuse the authority of such government, but not all of them had means to to it.