Posted on 03/16/2014 2:38:00 PM PDT by No One Special
Pro-Russian demonstrators in eastern Ukraine smashed their way into public buildings and burned Ukrainian-language books on Sunday in further protests following two deadly clashes in the region last week.
Protests, some several thousand strong, spread to Russian-speaking southern districts as Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, under the control of the Russian military for two weeks, voted in a referendum on joining Russia.
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In Kharkiv, Reuters Television footage showed pro-Russian activists scaling an iron gate, smashing a van and breaking into the offices of a Ukrainian cultural center. Two policemen stood nearby, examining the van.
The footage then showed young men seizing Ukrainian-language books, including a volume devoted to the 1932-1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine, which killed from 7-10 million people.
"Do you see what they print here?" one activist said to another.
The activists then took the books into the street and set them alight in small bonfires...
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Exactly. We let Poland hang for 50 years because of Roosevelt and the Democrats. If Russia invades Poland, I'll go over.
...do they still want to join the EU and the West since we’re hanging them out to dry?
I would want to be free to choose my own government.
Tin foil is not tin it’s aluminimum and is not dense enoungh to protect you from those unhealthy rays. It’s lead foil that will do the job. Use lead foil.
Who remembers the “green shoots” of a new diplomacy that were supposed to be shooting up after Hussein was first elected? And the silly editorial cartoons illustrating them?
Well, here they are. All grown up now into the poisonous swamp that liberal policies breed with alarming predictability.
All of of foreign policy diplomats are bone hard liberals with no conception of what will really happen when they project their policies on the World stage, and reality is smacking them right across the face...
Agreed.
Well said, DO.
Indeed.
If you were Ukrainian and wanted to join Russia, you would have to have a short memory or just be stupid.
How much does Putin pay you to push his propaganda? Or do you do it for free?
“....Where’s Ronald Reagan when you need him?...”
Long gone and deeply missed.
But He already did his part.
Sorry, I wasn’t aware that the history of this planet, one which a thinking person can go into any library and read, was Propaganda”, Putin or otherwise.
Ok, my turn. Are you proud of the ignorance you repeatedly show in these threads or just lacking in awareness of it? Because considering the above, it could go either way.
To equate the support America has given to freedom fighters the world over to the naked aggression on display by Putin is anti-American claptrap. You sound just like an American hating leftist.
Spare me your ignorance of history. Also, spare the rest of us your misplaced hyperpatriotism.
I find it odd that so recent a signup such as yourself has put himself at odds with so many of us. One might think, combined with your proven lack of knowledge on how the world actually works and has worked for a while now, they you are yet another Lib toll.
Very deeply missed, each and every day. We were lucky beyond belief to have had him.
We were blessed.
He was an amazing, thoroughly, and truly American.
He was a mensch.
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