Posted on 08/31/2014 10:54:27 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Despite the agreement and the officer’s word from the Russian commander, there was no withdrawal corridor for the Ukrainian troops encircled near Ilovajsk. As the Ukrainians started the withdrawal, the Russian troops opened fire regardless of the fact that there were Russian POWs in the column, deputy Dnipropetrovsk governor Boris Filatov wrote in Facebook, referring to those Ukrainian soldiers who managed to escape.
(Excerpt) Read more at zik.ua ...
Another facet of these events was the refusal of the United States to forcibly repatriate the Ukrainian Soviet prisoners of war and the Ukrainian Axis prisoners of war who the Soviets were murdering on the docks as they disembarked from the British and American transport ships. Although the American and British governmental authorities continue to deny to the present day the reports and allegations, Stalin supposedly retaliated against the Western Allies by refusing to repatriate some 30,000 plus more of the British Commonwealth and about some 26,000 IIRC American prisoners of war who fell into the hands of the Soviets in Eastern Europe in the Second World War. The mines of Donetsk and the Donbas are among the numerous locations in the Soviet Gulag where thousands of these British and American prisoners of war allegedly perished as slave laborers in the Soviet Union. More British and American military and civilian personnel were kidnapped in the West and transported into the Soviet Union by Soviet and other Communist intelligence services during the Cold War, where they too were executed or in some cases also perished as slave laborers in the Soviet Gulag such as the mines around Donetsk.
When the news came out that the Russian paratroopers captured by the Ukrainians were being exchanged for the captured Ukrainians, my first thought was the question of how long any of those Russian paratroopers Putin was going to allow to live and breathe after the Russians got their hands on those soldiers?
Lord, have Mercy! I thought this headline was from 1945.
And last night, that fool Richard Dreyfus chided Dinesh D'Souza, saying"You didn't answer the question, "What would the world be without America?"
After he pretty much called every neighboring fake countries that are really part of Russia, you would think people might get a clue.
I agree. How does Putin get away with saying what countries are real countries and what ones simply belong to him. I get it that he knows Russia belongs to him. And I get it that as long as he’s selling Russian chauvinism there will be a large class of Russian nitwits buying that instead of personal liberty. I don’t get how the rest of the world ignores such outrageous presumptions.
No one is in a position to push back. The world is tired form all the Islamic nutjobs, various countries falling, and the economy is falling apart faster than anyone can count. So really, there isn’t anyone to stop Putin at all at this point.
I’m sure you’re wrong, but cannot tell you why.
Another fully vetted, unbiased article from Ukrainian media....
A long read, but stunningly memorable.
And to the Obamatons. THIS is what happens with the American influence vacuum. Thugs will step in and fill the void.
They didn’t get Pearl Harbor, they didn’t get 9/11, they won’t get Putin or ISIS either.
Libertarianism is simply not to be reasoned with via such distractions as history or reality or common sense.
She was lucky the foreign journalists saw it. Here is the BBC article about it.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29001361
I hope God took all those commanders in. It’s rare to exhibit moral godlike qualities nowadays.
I wonder how many Russians if given the chance would choose freedom in the west over whatever Putin is offering.
Good question. One gets the sense that Putin has the support of the Russian people in his foray. They, like him, also long for the days when Russia was respected, yea, feared, because it projected Real Power.
The myth is that Russians can handle hardship, because they remember it from the 90s. I don't really see it. Putin's rise to power coincided with the rise of oil prices and Putin was able to easily clamp down on the little freedom Russians had by creating an association of freedom=poverty through his propaganda.
This is a repeat from WW2
I thought the Russians were creating a pre-text to re-invade the Ukraine. Shoot a few Ruskies, blame it on the Ukranianx inhimanity, then re-invade.
Oh.
The Ukie sheep must be kept well fed...
great point
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