Posted on 10/13/2015 6:18:14 PM PDT by marvel5
Ukrainian prosecutors have raided the homes of top leaders of the nationalist Svoboda party as part of an investigation into the massacre of anti-government protestors on the Maidan square in Kyiv on February 20, 2014.
The shooting of up to 50 protestors by police triggered the flight from Kyiv of pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych on February 22, and the ascent to power of a pro-Western administration
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Gorrrg, am I old or what?
We both are. I remember him. Later became a NY sports anchor I believe.
My guess is that this is a move by the coup government to back of Svoboda who never really went away, and kept up the Nazi street thug routine.
I read stories in recent months how they were threatening to run out the government they installed also now. There was also a story where Svoboda types shot it out with the police in the Lviv.
So the government knew all along that it was Svoboda that started the shooting, and its an easy way to take them down for becoming a menace.
Swoboda with a "w".
He lived in my town when I was a kid. The town gave him a parade after they won the series in '69. For some reason nobody showed up at the parade.
Failure is the Ukraine's middle name.
the staged shootings being orchestrated by the WH need to be investigated. My gut feeling is that this has been occurring for several years but that the people involved in the shootings are removed from the living after they finish their assignments so they can’t testifty later.
“So the government knew all along that it was Svoboda that started the shooting, and its an easy way to take them down for becoming a menace.”
Complete nonsense. The government killed 26 peaceful protesters days before any alleged shootings by the far right on February 20.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_killed_during_Euromaidan
Good for him. I liked him.
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