Posted on 03/18/2015 3:16:31 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
'Happy Russians' in Moscow Rally for Crimea - But Why So Few in Crimea Itself? 18:00 (GMT)
As we reported earlier, some 40,000 people turned out for a state-sponsored rally and concert to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the forcible annexation of the Crimea..
State media has broadcast many pictures of happy Russians with accordions and folk dancers and t-shirts and posters saying "Crimea is Ours."
But as Yod News and other independent media and bloggers have pointed out, why aren't there such happy crowds in Crimea itself?
Turnout indeed seems to be sparse at events arranged in Simferopol, Sevastopol -- where it was snowing -- and other towns.
Only men in uniform are visible in some of the pictures.
Yod also collected examples of what appeared to be evidence that people were turned out from their schools, and that they were paid to attend the events:
[Freepers: see link for photos from Crimea-- this is a "live" news blog, so this story will be pushed further and further down as new updates come in. Just scroll down and you will find it.]
WTF is that?
A loon? I'd say her reporting on Russia is pretty good. As for you, you shouldn't talk. You're a rabid apologists for Russia.
Putting Yatsenyuk in a Tutu? You must have gotten that photo from a Russian website which can’t decide whether or not he is a rabid, war mongering Nazi or a sissy.
Do your homework dumkopf...she’s a well known left-wing kook.
You’re a pathological Putinist who is still calling Ukraine a Nazi country. I don’t think you’re qualified to call someone a loon. You just want to distract from the problems in Crimea for your master.
Maybe you should just put a Hillary 2016 sign on your home page.
You call everybody out on their sources, provided it isn't from an anti-semitic website with 9/11 conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda. Those ones you're okay with.
It doesn’t get much farther left than supporting Russia.
Really?
Which side just announced that abortion and homo-marriage were human rights?
/natoremf
Yes really, which side is threatening to destroy America and our allies with nuclear war?
You Jane Fondas are supporting the enemy even as Americans are being threatened and having to move into position to defend us from your hero.
The only group threatening to destroy America these days is the ISIS death cult...a threat created by the neocons and their “allies” in the Middle east.
Meanwhile, NATO is spooking Europeans about their security which I suppose is good for business... even if 50,000 Ukrainians have to die in the process.
Its a good thing European nationalists of all stripes are catching on to your shitty global politics.
Actually Putin is threatening us with nuclear war, and invading yo to our NATO borders and moving up missiles to our NATO borders.
You cannot ignore what your own man is boasting and demonstrating, it is partly what makes you guys devoted to him.
Because Putin and his Russian occupier troops and thugs have turned the once beautiful Crimea into a Russian thugocracy, kleptocracy, gulag hell-hole just like the "good old-bad-old days under Soviet rule for the overwhelming majority of people now trapped, living (if you can call it that) throughout the Crimean peninsula.
Russia has mined the land bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Ukraine and his thugs control who gets in and who gets out. As for tourism... it is all but dead and for those Ukrainians and others foolish enough to go to Crimea for "vacation" I will simply pass on the following told to me by a trusted believer I have known and worked with for over 25 years:
This summer some men from our church decided to go to Crimea for vacation as they had done many years before. All of their papers were in order and they were allowed over the border into Crimea. After they had spent a week they headed back home to Ukraine. Two miles from the border men with automatic weapons stopped their car and ordered them to get out of the car. They told them to hand over the keys to the car and were not allowed to take any of their valuables with them. The thieves gave them just enough money for third-class train tickets and told them to "leave and never come back to Crimea again!" They confirmed that the same thing was taking place against other tourists who were traveling by car on the only road out of Crimea.
Simply put; Putin and his Russian thug occupiers have utterly destroyed the Crimean tourist industry. Who in their right mind wants to go to Crimea to be brutalized and terrorized by heavily armed "little green men", Russian biker gangs, and Russian troops carrying automatic weapons. Oh sure, according to Russian propaganda Crimea is a tourist paradise... yea for Russian bureaucrats, Russian Putinistas and the Russian mafia to name but a few.
The population non-Russian and Russians alike are being regularly terrorized and innumerable human rights violations are taking place on an ongoing basis.
It is nothing short of tragic.
Thank you very much for sharing that with us. It is, indeed, a terrible tragedy what has happened and is happening in Crimea.
Aside from the collapse of tourism, a big source of income the wine industry has collapsed as has the agricultural segment. Crimea has gotten most of its drinking water from Ukraine now shut off
Crimea is a beautiful and very historic area now seriously damaged by Russian thugs
Good grief....what a pants-load.
It is exactly these type of absurd hyperbolic assertions by NATO which is eroding their own credibility...as if the Libya debacle weren't enough.
You are proof that you pro-Russian lefties aren’t as sharp as you were during the Reagan years.
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