Posted on 05/21/2022 2:02:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
For undying enmity toward Mother Russia, Ukrainians have good cause. It can be traced to a single Ukrainian word -- “Holodomor” (derived from “holod, meaning hunger, and “mor,” meaning extermination). The word refers to a single event, the famine of 1932-3. This “famine,” however,” did not come from an act of nature, but from government policies -- the government at that time being not exactly Russia, but rather the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic, which was close to the same thing.
In keeping their socialist, “equitable,” agenda, the Soviets, under Joseph Stalin, took over private farms and formed collectives. The Soviets set quotas for crop production for them, reserving a portion for the government. On this endeavor, Patrick J. Kiger of History writes:
Collectivization in Ukraine didn’t go very well... it became apparent that Ukraine’s grain harvest was going to miss Soviet planners’ target by 60 percent. There still might have been enough food for Ukrainian peasants to get by, but, as [Anne] Applebaum writes, Stalin then ordered what little they had be confiscated as punishment for not meeting quotas.
At least 3.9 million, or about 13 percent of Ukrainians, starved to death. At the same time, the Soviets exported more than a million tons of grain to the West.
Of course, under the Soviets, at least 1.1 million Russian farmers starved also, but their survivors have no nationality to blame -- only an evil, delusional ideology. Ukrainians have more -- the ideology, and the nation that brought it to them. For this, and for more, Ukrainians have good cause for their enmity.
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Yeah. I don’t think any of us would want to be part of Russia if we were Ukrainian.
This was settled 30 years ago.
Russia/Putin is in the wrong.
No.
Putin is merely the one that stirred the pot. There are bigger blowfish to fry.
By the looks of it Satan will call him home soon enough.
Offing Putin may not be necessary, if reports on his declining health are true. Looks more like cancer will do the necessary work of removing that beast from the face of the earth.
I read recently that he has cancer.
They are most likely true, because he has changed. He used to quite reasonable.
Imagine the guy the globalists will replace him with. He may be a lot of things, but has not relinquished control to them.
When they obtain control over Russian resources, God help us all.
If Russia and China the last holdouts.. maybe China has defacto surrendered already. The NBA billions are the strangest thing I read this week… not sure about that puzzle piece. I am sure, it’s Americans last though.
Hey maybe Putin’s replacement is a reality show puppet who can entertain. We need less substantive and more compliant leaders… they might as well be fun to watch.
Jeff Dunham always comes to mind… president, czar, prime minister, or heck let’s just do queens n kings again..on a stick.
“Offing Putin may not be necessary”
Well thank heaven for small favors.
Was it you to whom this now needless mission was assigned?
“He used to quite reasonable”
Old Soviet, KGB. Reasonable? I would use the term measured, with an undercurrent of ruthlessness.
Russia appears to be the last holdout for “re-Sovietization”. (Belarus aside).
Replacement of Putin could put Russia on the same pathway as more “liberal” former Soviet republics.
In the meantime, weakening Putin’s military inventory can’t hurt.
Modernizing NATO’s inventory—with US armaments—likewise can’t hurt.
And while we are focused on the consequences that WE crossed Putin's red line, what about the real threat - China. We are in the process of putting ourselves in a place where we are so weak that China can shut us down and take us out of circulation for the next 100 years and you fools are provoked by the global imperialists constantly reminding you that that bad Putin....
You seem to be the only sane person on this thread.
Who is “we?” No, I want his own Russians to take out the Putin trash, or the Grim Reaper.
We want to create the situation where he crawls back under his rock, a rock he can’t lift.
Yes, the sad thing is the problem isn’t Putin. It is Russian culture.
For a thousand years the Russian people have been brutalized by Czars and dictators. They do not have any other way to function. Remove the brutal yoke and Russian society collapses.
I agree! When he was weak he tried to please America and pretend to be someone who can be a friend.
When he had eliminated his internal opposition, felt safe at home and got high on the high oil prices he showed his true self.
In 2008 he approached China urging them to take advantage of the economic crises to destroy the US economy.
>Some scary details have emerged from Hank Paulson’s memoirs.
>Allegedly, it appears Russia may have tried to conspire with China in a bid to collapse the U.S. financial system. They were hoping to sell Fannie and Freddie bonds during a time when the U.S. economy was on the ropes.
The whole Russian culture is crap, but Putin is at the mean end of Russian politics.
Even if his replacement would have the exact same idiotic ideas he would have a less entrenched position to force them on others and the less idiotic Russian forces would gain power.
He’s already done....
Just like the US, but just doesn’t know it yet.
Just judging by what others in the Russian government have been saying, I wouldn’t be too optimistic if I were Soros or a Neocon and managed to drive Putin from power. The others are FAR LESS restrained than Putin.
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