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1 posted on 02/24/2014 9:44:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
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Gosh, that’s a shame. BTT


2 posted on 02/24/2014 9:51:21 PM PST by Billthedrill
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You haven’t see anything yet. The E.U. and U.S. have unleashed, financed and possibly armed neo-Nazi West Ukrainian fascists who play for keeps and will commit genocide.


4 posted on 02/24/2014 10:05:43 PM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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Just like it is here in America, when times are tough, they blame the Jews..unfortunately some things never change


6 posted on 02/24/2014 10:11:35 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Olog-hai
From the NYB:

The protesters represent every group of Ukrainian citizens: Russian speakers and Ukrainian speakers (although most Ukrainians are bilingual), people from the cities and the countryside, people from all regions of the country, members of all political parties, the young and the old, Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Every major Christian denomination is represented by believers and most of them by clergy. The Crimean Tatars march in impressive numbers, and Jewish leaders have made a point of supporting the movement. The diversity of the Maidan is impressive: the group that monitors hospitals so that the regime cannot kidnap the wounded is run by young feminists. An important hotline that protesters call when they need help is staffed by LGBT activists.

On January 16, the Ukrainian government, headed by President Yanukovych, tried to put an end to Ukrainian civil society. A series of laws passed hastily and without following normal procedure did away with freedom of speech and assembly, and removed the few remaining checks on executive authority. This was intended to turn Ukraine into a dictatorship and to make all participants in the Maidan, by then probably numbering in the low millions, into criminals. The result was that the protests, until then entirely peaceful, became violent. Yanukovych lost support, even in his political base in the southeast, near the Russian border.

After weeks of responding peacefully to arrests and beatings by the riot police, many Ukrainians had had enough. A fraction of the protesters, some but by no means all representatives of the political right and far right, decided to take the fight to the police. Among them were members of the far-right party Svoboda and a new conglomeration of nationalists who call themselves the Right Sector (Pravyi Sektor). Young men, some of them from right-wing groups and others not, tried to take by force the public spaces claimed by the riot police. Young Jewish men formed their own combat group, or sotnia, to take the fight to the authorities.

Although Yanukovych rescinded most of the dictatorship laws, lawless violence by the regime, which started in November, continued into February. Members of the opposition were shot and killed, or hosed down in freezing temperatures to die of hypothermia. Others were tortured and left in the woods to die.

During the first two weeks of February, the Yanukovych regime sought to restore some of the dictatorship laws through decrees, bureaucratic shortcuts, and new legislation. On February 18, an announced parliamentary debate on constitutional reform was abruptly canceled. Instead, the government sent thousands of riot police against the protesters of Kiev. Hundreds of people were wounded by rubber bullets, tear gas, and truncheons. Dozens were killed.

The protests in the Maidan, we are told again and again by Russian propaganda and by the Kremlin’s friends in Ukraine, mean the return of National Socialism to Europe. The Russian foreign minister, in Munich, lectured the Germans about their support of people who salute Hitler. The Russian media continually make the claim that the Ukrainians who protest are Nazis. Naturally, it is important to be attentive to the far right in Ukrainian politics and history. It is still a serious presence today, although less important than the far right in France, Austria, or the Netherlands. Yet it is the Ukrainian regime rather than its opponents that resorts to anti-Semitism, instructing its riot police that the opposition is led by Jews. In other words, the Ukrainian government is telling itself that its opponents are Jews and us that its opponents are Nazis.


7 posted on 02/24/2014 10:19:06 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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groups taking the cover of chaos to do their dirty deeds is not a surprise


11 posted on 02/24/2014 10:35:58 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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Ukraine protesters call on Jewish oligarchs to give president ‘a gun’
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3126069/posts

Someone believes Jews have some extraordinary kind of power to solve things there. They probably don’t. That’s a very dangerous development.


12 posted on 02/24/2014 10:45:12 PM PST by Moose Burger
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3125892/posts#23


17 posted on 02/25/2014 12:17:16 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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