Posted on 10/15/2023 7:37:00 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
It’s helpful when you outlaw the opposition to the regime. And, yes, it’s a dictatorship.
Sounds like you guys get your news from the same place the good folks in Oceania got theirs. I mean, you’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
” they are going to win. “
dream on
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mexico’s going to win
Hey, Schwab, Soros and the other child sex-trafficking oligarchs are paying good money to buy Kiev’s Parliament.
Full throttle dive crash
We’ve passed Spain
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You can always tell when fieldmarshaldj is about to ‘spin’ when he denotes his own subtext for a thread! LOL
Best to just ignore his comments as he usually circles his comments until he forgot what he was implying!
Eventually, you too will find his usual misinterpretation quite amusing. So, best to let him toddle off into little corner and ignore his comments. :)
Putin’s used pattern of “Transnistrian” policy that controls zones of ‘frozen conflicts’ in Moldova (Transnistria region), Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia), and in Ukraine annexed Crimean peninsula and the Donbas. [his wider pattern uses separatist conflicts to create corruption and criminality as ‘Trojan horses’ to block progress in reform-minded periphery countries.]
PUTIN tactics are part of his geopolitical strategy to create conflict zones to prevent countries from entering NATO and integrating into the European Union. In this way, conflicts in post-Soviet countries are inflicted, fueled and kept frozen by Russia as part of PUTIN’S imperialistic plan to regain strategic points of HIS ‘lost empire.’
When PUTIN launched his more visible SECOND military invasion of Ukraine, the RUSSIAN PEOPLE were shocked!
ANTI-UKRAINE INVASION protests broke out [and continue] in Moscow, St. Petersburg & throughout over PUTIN Invasion of Ukraine. Cracks in the Kremblin now are appearing greater against Putin, families of military are actively protesting as an well as anti-Putin resistance group Russian Nationalist Army has been activated.
WILL ALL OF RUSSIA federation BE ABLE TO STOP PUTIN?
Who knows.
However, the world does not have to accept
‘world domination’ by the little Emperor
“PUTIN the THUG!”
Oleksiy Arestovych has a tendency to often make misstatements.
For instance, the reason Arestovych resigned was over his
comments he made on a deadly Russian air strike that sparked a public outcry. Arestovych tendered his resignation on January 17, three days later.
“Crimea was Ukrainian in 2014.”
Ukrainian officials have marked the 77th anniversary of the Crimean Tatars’ Stalin-era deportations from Crimea to Central Asia by denouncing what they called their ongoing persecution by Russia.
Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and backed separatists in two of its eastern provinces, sparking a war that has killed more than 13,000 people.
Crimean Tatars, rights activists, and Western governments say Russia has subjected Crimean Tatars and others who opposed annexation to abuse, discrimination, and politically motivated prosecution on false charges.
As Crimean Tatars marked the anniversary of the 1944 deportations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a statement: “We will not forgive that 70 years [after the deportations] you were forced to leave your home again due to the Russian annexation.”
“And those of you who remain [in Crimea] are being persecuted and imprisoned by the occupation authorities,” Zelenskiy added.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Russia “continues to systemically suppress the Crimean Tatars.”
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-denounces-persecution-crimean-tatars/31261794.html
* Also note:
More than 5,000 human rights violations registered in Crimea since start of [Russian] occupation
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3774535-more-than-5000-human-rights-violations-registered-in-crimea-since-start-of-occupation.html
“NATO wages war on Russia”
Yes. Putin forced the invasion of Ukraine. The Russian people do NOT support this invasion. Thousands of Russian people have protested & been jailed. Russian men escape across the borders while others have become freedom fighters setting fires all across Russia.
I support Ukraine’s fight for freedom.
The Russian people are NOT SUPPORTIVE of Putin’s invasion. Thes Russian citizens haveaActively showing their anger at the invasion of Ukraine by Putin. Their husbands have crossed the border out of Russia. Other husband, fathers, and sons have been illegally [until Putin changed the Russian Constitution] to send conscripts to fight in Ukraine. The Russian military does not want to return the dead bodies as they don’t want to make payments to their families.
Thousands show up to public-ally protest this invasion with full knowledge they will likely be imprisoned. Russian freedom fighter are setting fires to military bldgs & factories.
No Putin is not supported.. only endured
Why don’t you start your own blog or website somewhere?
You monopolize this website day after day.
“You monopolize this website”
A single post is not a monopoly.
How does she monopolize this website? You are just trying to censor the truth. Why don’t you and your good pal WarDaddy start your own blog since you both blindly recite Moscow talking points?
Come off it! You post comment after comment here endlessly Madame and you’re quite the crashing boor.
Get your blog or start your own website.
You’re getting free rent here at the expense of the Robinson’s.
We The People have shoveled billions to that grifting little weasel Zelensky with nothing to show for and all he does is demand more.
Enough!
How does she monopolize this site? Are you blind? She posts endlessly here about this thug regime. A regime we’ve shoveled billions to.
From the beginning of this I’ve said REPEATEDLY Russia and Ukraine are two scorpions in a bottle. This is NOT our fight.
Try and pay attention.
She posts a daily thread. You and the other apeaseniks gang up and try to intimidate her. She stands up to you and you hate her all the more just as you hate truth. Take your own advice and start your own site.
You pretend to be neutral in the conflict but you always slam Ukraine and wink at the invaders. Only Russia has nukes aimed at America. Only Russia brags about its ability to “win” a nuclear war. The Speaker of the Russian Duma speaks seriously of “reversing the illegal transfer of Alaska”. Yet you strife to enrich Russia with Ukraine’s back soil areas and its petro-chemical resources. Thus you are enabling Russia to invest more in its missile and anti-missile program’s developed to defeat the United States.
“Russian Propaganda”
Yes, your statement is true. This typically explains comments made by fieldmarshaldj.
This article is interesting explains why Crimea is NOT Russian.
“Explaining Ukraine-Who are the Crimean Tatars?”
Kyiv Independent
Anastasiia Lapatina
Mon, October 16, 2023 at 11:26 AM EDT
https://kyivindependent.com/who-are-the-crimean-tatars/
One of the most overlooked parts of Ukraine is its diversity. The Crimean Tatars – a national minority native to Crimea and recognized as an indigenous people of Ukraine – are a perfect example.
The Crimean Tatars – also referred to as Kirimli or Qırımlı – endured wars, mass deportations, and waves of repression by both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 reopened many old wounds.
While much of their history remains undiscovered around the globe, including inside Ukraine, Crimean Tatars continue fighting for their freedom within independent Ukraine through activism and by taking up arms against Russia in the full-scale war.
WHO ARE THE CRIMEAN TARTARS?
Crimean Tatars are one of Ukraine’s indigenous peoples who have been central to Crimea’s history for many centuries.
Descended from an array of ethnic groups with roots in antiquity (Greeks, Goths, Scythians) and the Mongol nomads of the thirteenth-century Golden Horde, the Crimean Tatars are composed of different sub-ethnic groups that have lived in the Crimean mountains, the steppe, or along the coast – Nogai, Tatar, and Yaliboilu.
Although not all Crimean Tatars are practicing Sunni Muslims, their culture is rooted in the Islamic tradition. Crimean Tatars celebrate Islamic holidays, like Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, among others.
Their mother tongue is Crimean Tatar, a Turkic language. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) classifies this language as “endangered” since its primary speakers are older generations, as most Crimean Tatars today speak Russian and Ukrainian.
HAVE CRIMEAN TARTARS ALWAYS BEEN A MINORITY IN CRIMEA?
Before the Russian Empire conquered Crimea in 1783, Crimean Tatars constituted the vast majority of the peninsula’s population for centuries.
In 1441, Crimean Tatars formed their first state – the Crimean Khanate – centered in Bakhchisarai. The khanate was very closely aligned with, and at times subservient to, the Ottoman Empire, and remained in the Ottoman orbit for centuries.
The Crimean Khanate grew into a powerful state with extensive yet complicated relations with its neighbors, including the Ukrainian Cossacks. It exercised significant political and military control over the Crimean peninsula and the inland steppe region of today’s southern Ukraine for over three centuries.
In fact, as Cambridge historian Rory Finnin has pointed out, much of the frontline of Russia’s war against Ukraine today follows the contours of what were once the northern reaches of the Crimean Tatar khanate.
With Ottoman support, Khan Devlet I Giray led the Crimean Khanate’s army to Moscow, burning the city and its suburbs in 1571.
In the 1700s, Crimean Tatars comprised 95% of Crimea’s population. BUT between 1772 and 1782, Russian Empress Catherine II staged four invasions of the Crimean peninsula. The Crimean Tatar khanate ultimately succumbed to this Russian aggression.
In 1783, Catherine annexed the territory controlled by the khanate and kicked off a long trend of Russian repression of the Crimean Tatars, expelling them en masse and erasing their culture.
To promote visions of a return to Greek antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, Catherine stripped hundreds of cities and villages of Crimean Tatar names and replaced them with toponyms based on Greek.
Kezlev, a western coastal city in Crimea, became Yevpatoria, allegedly named after the Pontic Greek king Mithridates VI Eupator. Aqyar became Sevastopol.
Many Crimean Tatars plunged into poverty and lost their homes as their land was handed out to Russian elites.
Apart from the crushing economic and political realities of the Russian Empire, which marginalized the Crimean Tatars, there was also the imposition of Christianity on what was a traditionally Islamic culture.
Roughly 330,000 Crimean Tatars left the peninsula by 1793, mainly to different parts of the Ottoman Empire, just ten years after Catherine II came to power, according to Crimean Tatar historian Gulnara Bekirova in her book “A Half Century of Resistance: Crimean Tatars from Deportation to Return (1941-1999).”
An infographic showing the dramatic decline in the percentage of Crimean Tatar population on the Crimean peninsula from the 1700s until Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014. (Graphic: Liza Kukharska)
Another huge emigration wave resulted from the Crimean War in 1853-1856 and its aftermath. In 1857, Tsar Alexander explicitly ordered “THE CLEANSING” of the Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula and their replacement by Slavic peasants inside the Russian Empire.
Huge numbers of Crimean Tatars left for Turkey, and their population share dropped to about 25% by the end of the nineteenth century. Today, Turkey hosts the largest Crimean Tatar diaspora in the world.
As Russian regimes changed, the repressive trends in Crimea continued.
In the years after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks destroyed the Crimean Tatar national movement that fought for Crimean Tatar autonomy.
Before their defeat, the movement organized the first ever Crimean Tatar Kurultai – a national constituent assembly with democratically-elected delegates who agreed on their national government structure and basic laws to govern Crimea.
The leaders of the Kurultai traveled to Kyiv to pursue cooperation with the Ukrainian leaders of what would soon become the Ukrainian People’s Republic — a short-lived independent Ukrainian state that lasted from 1917-1921.
The Kurultai also proclaimed another short-lived Crimean Tatar state in Crimea – the CRIMEAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC.
The Bolsheviks countered by creating the Sevastopol Military Revolutionary Committee, which militarily took control of Crimea. The Kurultai was disbanded, and Crimean Tatar National Government leader Noman Chelebidzhikhan (Çelebicihan) was arrested and shot dead, his body thrown into the Black Sea, historical records say.
Soviet leader JOSEPH STALIN’S TERROR took another stab at Crimean Tatars in the 1930s – arresting and executing dozens of intelligentsia members for “anti-revolutionary activities.” Like everywhere else in the Soviet Union, forced collectivization led to hunger and many deaths in Crimea.
The centuries-long decline of the Crimean Tatar population was accompanied by the Russian resettlement of the peninsula. Thousands of SOVIET SETTLERS sent to Crimea by the Kremlin remade the demography of the peninsula.
By 1939, what once was Crimea’s dominant native population became a minority, with around 219,000 Crimean Tatars left in Crimea, making up 19% of the population.
People arrange vigil lanterns in memory of the victims of the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars on May 18 in Odesa, Ukraine.
THE MASS DEPORTATION OF CRIMEAN TARTARS
The biggest blow to Crimean Tatars came in 1944 when the Soviet regime accused the entire Crimean Tatar nation of collaboration with the Nazis, who occupied Crimea for two years during World War II.
This FALSE accusation was despite the fact that the vast majority of Crimean Tatars fought in the Red Army during the war. In fact, thousands of Crimean Tatars won medals from the Kremlin for their service; six became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
This false accusation was largely based on the work of Islamic Committees, which were Nazi-created offices tasked with supporting the German authorities during occupation but also used to advocate for Crimean Tatar interests.
Historians now agree that a very small percentage of Crimean Tatars collaborated with the Nazis, and like Russian and Ukrainian collaborators in Crimea, many of them were forced to do so to survive under occupation.
Nevertheless, Stalin ordered the deportation of all Crimean Tatars from the peninsula. Historians now believe he did so out of fear of a future war with Turkey over control of the Straits of the Bosporus and Dardanelles.
Up to 200,000 Crimean Tatars – mostly women, children, and the elderly – were deported to Central Asia and Siberia, while Crimean Tatar men who were fighting for the Red Army at the time were sent to labor camps.
It is believed that half of those deported died during deportation or within the first few years of their resettlement due to maltreatment, diseases, and hunger.
After 1944, Crimea was RUSSIFIED once again to erase any traces of its indigenous population: more villages were renamed, monuments were destroyed, and stolen homes and properties were redistributed to Soviet settlers. In the meantime, Soviet authorities continued spreading propaganda about the Crimean Tatars as traitors to the USSR.
Political statements and government-sponsored literature smeared Crimean Tatars as “Mongol savages” (a reference to the Golden Horde of the Mongol empire that controlled the peninsula in the 13th century) who were not indigenous to Crimea and supported the Nazis.
Nevertheless, the Crimean Tatar national movement never stopped fighting for the right to return to their ancestral homeland. In fact, as Rory Finnin argues, their movement was the most organized, innovative, and influential campaign of dissent in the Soviet Union.
In the 1980s, the Soviet regime admitted that Stalin’s deportation was “barbaric” and allowed the Crimean Tatars to return to Crimea. The SOVIET government under MIKHAIL GORBACHEV REVERSED reversed STALINISTIC POLICIES and rehabilitated Crimean Tatars.
Ukraine, as well as Lithuania, Latvia, and Canada, RECOGNIZE the deportation of Crimean Tatars as GENOCIDE.
An infographic showing the dramatic decline in the percentage of Crimean Tatar population on the Crimean peninsula from the 1700s until Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014. (Graphic: Liza Kukharska) https://kyivindependent.com/who-are-the-crimean-tatars/
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