Thousands protest in Ukraine, defying court ban

Reuters ^ | Sunday, Jan. 19th, 2014 | Richard Balmforth and Natalia Zinets

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[mac_truck]

Thanks..sbt.

[mac_truck]

One of the three main ‘opposition’ parties in Ukraine is Svaboda, an ultra-nationalist group with ties to other European national socialist organizations. They are descended from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a paramilitary organization which fought alongside the Nazis in occupied Ukraine during World War II.

Svaboda has been engaged in violent demonstrations against the elected government in Ukraine for over a year and no doubt were the main protagonists in yesterday’s violence in Kiev.

[RipSawyer]

He looks like a REAL Russian bear! Putin looks like a child next to him.

[ETL]

He looks like a REAL Russian bear! Putin looks like a child next to him.

pro-Moscow Viktor Yanukovich, new president of the Ukraine

[Paul R.]

The (presently jailed) former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko is also part of the mix:

The article on her in Wikipedia gives one a taste of Ukranian politics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko

Tymoshenko is probably lucky to "only" be imprisoned, at this point: Then candidate and eventual President Viktor Yushchenko survived dioxin poisoning in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko

[Paul R.]

Oops, sorry - partially redundant info. there about Yushchenko at the end of my prev. post.

[Paul R.]

BTW, does anyone know why putting pics and hot-links in the same post doesn’t work, for the links? I’ve tried to follow the HTML Sandbox guidelines, but then the links don’t show up at all. I’ll admit I’m a HTML novice. :-)

[Cronos]

the UIA were murderous. They killed Poles and Jews with a vicioiusness like the RPA (the Russian soldiers who turned coat) they were so appalling in the Warsaw uprising that they even disgusted the SS.

[Cronos]

Well, just in the Ukraine, for Eastern Slavs

Southern Slavs and Western Slavs live in pretty democratic nations

[Krosan]

Yushchenko was a registered member of Communist Party in Soviet Union, but he was not a political power person. His background was accounting and he made it into Deputy Director of a bank. People at higher levels were pressured into joining the Communist Party and probably one could not have been promoted to Deputy Director level if he refused. Many people just signed the papers and that was it for them.

[NFHale]

“...Many people just signed the papers and that was it for them....”

Yeah, I get that... to be able to advance anywhere, they probably had to “play ball”.