Lenin Posted on 08/24/2014 10:57:17 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Ukraine celebrates Independence with sense of self and readiness to fight fiercely for freedom.
If the iron curtain comes back, Ukraine wants to be on the Western side and has no interest in joining Russia. The Ukrainian people may not all be on the same page with Kyiv government, but they want western liberties and business opportunities.
To Moscow the idea that Ukraine has the right to choose their own path – escaping Kremlin’s influence – is a source of instability and panic. They accuse the West of manipulating Ukraine protests and deny the idea that Ukrainian people may have been thinking for themselves.
Moscow failed to understand Ukraine’s story, or underestimated the Ukraine grassroots movement. From first days of independence, it wasn’t easy to break Soviet economic ties, conduct political reforms and create currency and banking systems.
During Soviet times, Russian and Ukrainians were never the same, but Soviet ideology and propaganda unified them. “Homo Soveticus” united Russians, Ukrainians and people from other republics.
In the early 1990s, Ukrainian schools replaced Soviet history, with historical facts omitted before. Students learned: the struggle of living under Soviet oppression, deliberate famine in Ukraine under Stalin that wiped out more than 10,000 million—now regarded as genocide and many intelligentsia arrested, shot or sent to Siberia.
When Ukrainian media started offering Ukraine-news and talk shows, division between Russian and Ukrainian increased, while memories of Soviet times began to fade. The East and West of Ukraine peacefully coexisted with Ukraine’s sovereignty never being challenged until Russia’s actions this year.
Lenin
Social activists paint everything blue and yellow, Ukraine’s national flag colors– from statues of Lenin to fences and murals. Blue and yellow keeps popping throughout the country and beyond, even in Moscow, outside the Kremlin.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain welcomed the President of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people on the Independence Day.
"With great pleasure to send you, Your Excellency my warmest greetings and congratulations on the occasion of your national holiday, with my best regards Ukraine people good luck and happiness this year," - reads the greeting telegram from the Queen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kRjK62kBwM#t=11
Armed pro-Russian separatists escort a column of Ukrainian prisoners of war (C) as they walk across central Donetsk Aug 24, 2014. Pro-Russian separatist rebels force-marched dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war along the main street of the rebel-held Ukrainian town of Donetsk today. – Reuters pic
I posted regarding this: 8/24/2014, 9:52:07 AM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196472/posts
I have been advised that “such DNR actions constitute grave violations of the laws of war and are punishable as war crimes. People in the Ukraine and outside the Ukraine should raise all kinds of Hell with the ICRC about its remaining silent about these kinds of war crimes.”
These Terrorist Separatists are truly evil:
Read the following FR post:
UKRAINE: “Donbass” routed the southern group of terrorists and opened a passage in Ilovajsk
8/24/2014, 6:46:27 PM • 1 of 10
” In Ilovaiskaya terrorists tied the body of the deceased ATO soldier spetsbatalona MIA “Dnepr 1” to the gun and fired out of it. Told Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko.
“Just passed an important intelligence headquarters spetsbatalona MIA” Dnepr 1 “on the situation in Ilovaiskaya. Asked how the matter. Kombat barely restraining himself said that terrorists seized the dead body of a soldier spetsbatalona police” Dnipro - 1 “, tied him to a gun and fired it!” - Wrote Gerashchenko.
“That’s what nonhumans our army, the National Guard and police spetsbatalona are now fighting in Ilovaiskaya!” - he wrote.
http://obozrevatel.com/crime/58431-terroristyi-privyazali-telo-pogibshego-soldata-ato-k-pushke-i-vyistrelili.htm
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