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Russians shot their own POWs
Zik TV ^ | Sunday 31 august, 2014, 20:22 | Zik TV

Posted on 08/31/2014 10:54:27 PM PDT by WhiskeyX

Despite the agreement and the officer’s word from the Russian commander, there was no withdrawal corridor for the Ukrainian troops encircled near Ilovajsk. As the Ukrainians started the withdrawal, the Russian troops opened fire regardless of the fact that there were Russian POWs in the column, deputy Dnipropetrovsk governor Boris Filatov wrote in Facebook, referring to those Ukrainian soldiers who managed to escape.

(Excerpt) Read more at zik.ua ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: russia; ukraine; warcrime
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To: elhombrelibre

Another facet of these events was the refusal of the United States to forcibly repatriate the Ukrainian Soviet prisoners of war and the Ukrainian Axis prisoners of war who the Soviets were murdering on the docks as they disembarked from the British and American transport ships. Although the American and British governmental authorities continue to deny to the present day the reports and allegations, Stalin supposedly retaliated against the Western Allies by refusing to repatriate some 30,000 plus more of the British Commonwealth and about some 26,000 IIRC American prisoners of war who fell into the hands of the Soviets in Eastern Europe in the Second World War. The mines of Donetsk and the Donbas are among the numerous locations in the Soviet Gulag where thousands of these British and American prisoners of war allegedly perished as slave laborers in the Soviet Union. More British and American military and civilian personnel were kidnapped in the West and transported into the Soviet Union by Soviet and other Communist intelligence services during the Cold War, where they too were executed or in some cases also perished as slave laborers in the Soviet Gulag such as the mines around Donetsk.


21 posted on 09/01/2014 12:52:16 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: Prospero

When the news came out that the Russian paratroopers captured by the Ukrainians were being exchanged for the captured Ukrainians, my first thought was the question of how long any of those Russian paratroopers Putin was going to allow to live and breathe after the Russians got their hands on those soldiers?


22 posted on 09/01/2014 12:56:13 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Lord, have Mercy! I thought this headline was from 1945.


23 posted on 09/01/2014 12:59:29 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Organic Panic
And to the Obamatons. THIS is what happens with the American influence vacuum.

And last night, that fool Richard Dreyfus chided Dinesh D'Souza, saying"You didn't answer the question, "What would the world be without America?"

24 posted on 09/01/2014 1:03:19 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: elhombrelibre

After he pretty much called every neighboring fake countries that are really part of Russia, you would think people might get a clue.


25 posted on 09/01/2014 1:15:33 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

I agree. How does Putin get away with saying what countries are real countries and what ones simply belong to him. I get it that he knows Russia belongs to him. And I get it that as long as he’s selling Russian chauvinism there will be a large class of Russian nitwits buying that instead of personal liberty. I don’t get how the rest of the world ignores such outrageous presumptions.


26 posted on 09/01/2014 2:02:28 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

No one is in a position to push back. The world is tired form all the Islamic nutjobs, various countries falling, and the economy is falling apart faster than anyone can count. So really, there isn’t anyone to stop Putin at all at this point.


27 posted on 09/01/2014 2:06:19 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister

I’m sure you’re wrong, but cannot tell you why.


28 posted on 09/01/2014 2:42:37 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: WhiskeyX

Another fully vetted, unbiased article from Ukrainian media....


29 posted on 09/01/2014 4:23:48 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: Prospero

A long read, but stunningly memorable.


30 posted on 09/01/2014 4:37:32 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Organic Panic

And to the Obamatons. THIS is what happens with the American influence vacuum. Thugs will step in and fill the void.


It’s not just the lefties who don’t get it. A lot of the opposition to Obama is comprised of mainly younger libertarian types who think the US can just withdraw inside its own borders, legalize weed, turn the NSA into a platform for better computer games or some such, and disappear from the world stage altogether—and that NOTHING going on abroad will ever make its way here.

They didn’t get Pearl Harbor, they didn’t get 9/11, they won’t get Putin or ISIS either.

Libertarianism is simply not to be reasoned with via such distractions as history or reality or common sense.


31 posted on 09/01/2014 4:46:46 AM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: GeronL

She was lucky the foreign journalists saw it. Here is the BBC article about it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29001361


32 posted on 09/01/2014 5:23:12 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: okie01

I hope God took all those commanders in. It’s rare to exhibit moral godlike qualities nowadays.

I wonder how many Russians if given the chance would choose freedom in the west over whatever Putin is offering.


33 posted on 09/01/2014 6:15:21 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf
I wonder how many Russians if given the chance would choose freedom in the west over whatever Putin is offering.

Good question. One gets the sense that Putin has the support of the Russian people in his foray. They, like him, also long for the days when Russia was respected, yea, feared, because it projected Real Power.

34 posted on 09/01/2014 6:24:48 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: okie01
Large part of Putin's popularity is also due to relative financial well-being (mainly due to Russia's huge oil revenues). If sanctions would bring economic hardship to Russians and a stream of bodies of their soldiers would keep arriving then Putin's popularity might vanish quite quickly.

The myth is that Russians can handle hardship, because they remember it from the 90s. I don't really see it. Putin's rise to power coincided with the rise of oil prices and Putin was able to easily clamp down on the little freedom Russians had by creating an association of freedom=poverty through his propaganda.


35 posted on 09/01/2014 6:45:09 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: WhiskeyX

This is a repeat from WW2


36 posted on 09/01/2014 6:45:51 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: ansel12

I thought the Russians were creating a pre-text to re-invade the Ukraine. Shoot a few Ruskies, blame it on the Ukranianx inhimanity, then re-invade.


37 posted on 09/01/2014 7:11:49 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

Oh.


38 posted on 09/01/2014 7:23:39 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: palmer
Another fully vetted, unbiased article from Ukrainian media....

The Ukie sheep must be kept well fed...

39 posted on 09/01/2014 7:27:36 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: elhombrelibre

great point


40 posted on 09/01/2014 9:34:07 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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