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To: tlozo
But um, just how many political parties did Lincoln ban? Or Churchill for that matter?
Did Churchill jail Chamberlain for signing a “Peace In Our Time “ deal with Hitler? Nope.
64 posted on 07/10/2022 11:39:02 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
Did Churchill jail Chamberlain for signing a “Peace In Our Time “ deal with Hitler? Nope.

Chamberlain wasn't funded by the nazis. Victor Medvechuk the leader of the banned pro-Russian party was getting funding from Russia.

Half a continent away, in the sunny European offshore haven of Cyprus, a secretive deal was being struck: A large stake in Yug Energo, owner of a lucrative Russian oil refinery, was sold at bargain rates to companies linked to Ukraine’s leading pro-Russia opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk and his longtime business partner, member of parliament Taras Kozak. Credit: Opposition Platform - For Life Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak (right) at a meeting in Moscow last year with Russian parliamentary leaders.

An investigation by the Ukrainian RFE/RL program Schemes and OCCRP has found that the companies linked to Medvedchuk and Kozak were able to secure a 42-percent stake in Yug Energo from Russian billionaire Sergey Kislov for barely more than $40,000 — a tiny fraction of what the men would make from the deal over the coming years.

The Yug Energo stake entitled Medvedchuk and Kozak to a large portion of the profits from the Novoshakhtinsky oil refinery, a half-billion-dollar facility completed a few years earlier in Russia’s southern Rostov region. These dividends would amount to tens of millions of dollars, bolstering Medvedchuk’s finances as he staged a political comeback and helped set up and finance Ukraine’s biggest pro-Russian political party, Opposition Platform — For Life.

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/the-sweetheart-oil-deal-funding-ukraines-top-pro-kremlin-politician

72 posted on 07/10/2022 11:57:38 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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