[Dr. Thorne]

Your first statement is wrong. The Ukraine uprising is anti-Russian, not anti-communist. The revolutionaries are socialists and, if they gain control, they will impose a socialist system on Ukraine. They are not free market people.

[annalex]

This thread is not about Ukraine, but I disagree with you. The Ukrainian nationalists made a great effort to explain it to anyone that they mean to harm to the Russians. In Lviv they made pledge to speak Russian for one day; one slogan was something like "We are with Russians by relation, but not with then in slavery". Hundreds of Russians volunteered for Maidan. The Maidan is about civilizational choice away from Sovietism and for European values.

It is true that EU is about managed economy and they don't seem to mind. But they choice for the Ukies is cultural choice; their economy is in such a hole that anything could help.

There is a thread on the current events in Ukraine if you want to argue back: Alarm in Ukraine as Putin Puts Russian Troops on Alert