Posted on 04/26/2014 6:21:36 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
On that side, there’s an emblem of the Russian Federation’s ministry of defense. Below that, this inscription: “For the return of Crimea 20.02.14 - 03.18.14.”
Yet how could the dates of Crimea’s “liberation” have begun on February 20th?
An image of the medal was quickly removed from the Russian defense ministry’s website after the ceremony on March 25, but the damage was done. How could Crimea have been “liberated” in an operation beginning on February 20, the day on which a bloody assault against the Maidan protesters began in Kiev, killing nearly 100 people? Even more perplexing is that Viktor Yanukovych was still officially the president of Ukraine and Crimea on February 20. So how could this operation have begun on that day, while he was still president—or more importantly, why?
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“Yet how could the dates of Crimea’s “liberation” have begun on February 20th?”
Putin was only showing that he could be just as flexible as Obama.
” So how could this operation have begun on that day”
The operation began years ago.
Perhaps you need the article translated to English?
Why not? The Medal is dated from 20 February 2014. What makes you claim the medal was not forged before 1 March 2014, when it was awarded by 25 March 2014? It usually takes at least a few weeks or months of lead time for the manufacturer to make the artwork, die, ribbon, and accompanying material for producing these medals and their associated documents. Three or four weeks is very little time to prepare and produce such items from scratch, so it is much more likely they were produced sometime before or wqell before 20 February 2014.
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