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To: wetphoenix
Even if so, it would be an improvement compared to Russia where people still march with red banners and enjoy invading their neighbors:


Slogans: "We believe Putin"; "With Crimea against fascism"

But it is not so. The Maidan showed true heroism and genuine desire to get rid of the Soviet past. And the new government is popular everywhere precisely because it is anti-Soviet:




Statues of Lenin liquidated
(The text is "To the Madian heroes").

More here

The population supports the government even in the East:



Demonstration in Severodonetsk.

No question, the desovietization in Ukraine is only beginning. But in Russia the Soviets are on the rise. That is the problem.

34 posted on 08/28/2014 7:32:18 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex

Yes, right. They can gather a 5 thousand crowd in a city under a Ukrainian flag, and on another day there is a 10,000 crowd under the Russian flag.
And another 985,000 residents still don’t give a flying carp.


35 posted on 08/29/2014 3:28:48 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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