Posted on 03/06/2015 9:13:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
Militants in Ukraine’s breakaway republics are rounding up dealers, addicts, and even social workers in a ruthless war on drugs that threatens to send HIV rates skyrocketing.
Miles of recently dug trenches mar the frozen landscape of the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine, signs of the ongoing war here between separatists and Ukrainian government forces. Farm fields are torn up; on some strategic highways, bunkers surrounded by tank tracks and mortar holes stand as high as houses. Travelers passing through half-destroyed towns can occasionally glimpse gangs of ragtag workers, digging and hauling sandbags under armed guard.
Last July, one of those workers was Ruslan, 33, from Horlivka. After the militants who had taken over his town seized him outside his house, he spent 21 days on the front lines, he said, “digging holes like a dog, and living in them like a dog.”
“They did whatever they wanted with me,” he said. “I can’t tell you how horrible it was.” The militants beat him up and shot at him several times a day. But that wasn’t the worst, he said. “It wasn't even so much the physical treatment but the constant humiliation. ‘Junkie this, junkie that.’”
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As a former grunt, I approve. “hey junkie, dig my hole”,,
Never, have I seen a tall hole.
A Ukrainian junkie reunion = a full set of teeth.
And they all have irrepressible smiles.
Maybe someday the Comrades will force you to dig a hole and get in.
They may toss me in but they won’t force me to do anything.
Slavs= slaves. You’re siding with the junkie? That’s nice.
It sounds to me like the “Comrades” were taking out the trash.
No response?
How do you get Miss Ukraine, 2014, in your hotel room?
Grease her hips and puuuush!
ACME sells them, various sizes too...
I have never seen a junkie capable of digging even a shallow hole, much less a "tall" one.
The cost of feeding one for weeks at a time is higher than the value of the work they would produce.
Me time you see your mom pet her for me,
Crocodile replaced with heroin. What not to like? It is a sign of both economy and health situations getting better.
Bullcrap. Junkie or not, these semi-humans are still clinging to their lives most of the time. They still capable to do wonders under certain circumstances.
Weird...but I keep refreshing this thread...: )
Why only a double post?
Feel free to enlighten us with misses 2012 and 2013 too!
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