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Armed men seize Crimea parliament and hoist Russian flag
The Guardian ^ | 2-27-2014

Posted on 02/26/2014 11:56:31 PM PST by Crazieman

Armed men have seized the government buildings in the capital of the Ukraine’s Crimea region and hoisted a Russian flag over a barricade.

The men occupying the parliament building in the regional capital, Simferopol, early on Thursday did not come out to voice any demands. They wore black and orange ribbons, a Russian symbol of the victory in World War II. The men also put up a sign saying “Crimea is Russia.”

They threw a flash grenade in response to a journalist’s questions. Phone calls to region’s legislature rang unanswered, and its website was down.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: armed; crimea; crimean; flag; hoist; men; parliament; putin; russia; russian; seize; ukraine; ukrainian; viktoryanukovich; war; yuliatymoshenko
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To: JimSEA

Actually, the total number of population losses by the end of 1933 (famine death and birth deficit) across the entire Soviet Union is estimated as 6–7 million, with famine deaths in the Ukraine estimated to be about 3-3.5 million, more specifically about 3.2 million.


61 posted on 03/02/2014 12:08:05 AM PST by Jacob Kell (The last good thing that the UN did was Korea.)
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To: JimSEA

“Russians and Ukrainians won’t get along in our lifetimes.”

If that’s the case, then how come Eastern Ukraine is actually still mostly populated by ethnic Ukrainians, and those Ukrainians are mainly Russian speaking?


62 posted on 03/02/2014 12:09:20 AM PST by Jacob Kell (The last good thing that the UN did was Korea.)
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To: cunning_fish

Ukrainians kicked Poles out of Lwow.


63 posted on 03/02/2014 12:10:19 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Jacob Kell

I believe you have to include deaths from Gulag concentration camps and deaths from disease (Typhus, etc.) made worse by malnutrition. You must also go beyond the 1932-33 time frame as the collectivization began in the 20s and was resisted all along.


64 posted on 03/02/2014 12:33:17 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: dfwgator

I guess it is a nice time for Poles to restore justice and kick some Nazi butts.


65 posted on 03/02/2014 1:45:09 AM PST by cunning_fish
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To: dfwgator

I guess it is a nice time for Poles to restore justice and kick some Nazi butts.


66 posted on 03/02/2014 1:46:35 AM PST by cunning_fish
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To: JimSEA

How many of those are Ukrainians, and how many other ethnic groups, like Kazakhs, Germans, Bulgarians, and even Russians?


67 posted on 03/02/2014 10:43:54 AM PST by Jacob Kell (The last good thing that the UN did was Korea.)
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