Posted on 02/07/2010 10:40:07 AM PST by Steelfish
Justifiable lack of faith in zero’s committment to protection of hard-fought freedoms and democracy in eastern Europe is pushing those countries back into the throes of Putin’s old style Soviet control and governance. Their future is bleak. Zero has, in effect, closed the twenty-year window during which these emergent democracies had a chance to soar.
This is very, very sad.....and dangerous.
The weakening of young democracies struggling to emerge from the hammer and sickle weakens the effort to resist the flow of political energy in that direction right here at home. Wtaching the world move back to communism does not help us and certainly doesn’t help the former Soviet bloc countries that had been emerging from its throes for the last twenty years.
The “west” still maintains a capitalist system, notwithstanding the efforts of powerful forces bent on destroying it. We can either throw in the towel and succumb or we can fight it. Identifying it and seeing it for what it is is half the battle. Yes, the movement has been in place for 100 years, but i’s only been very recently that that was discovered and identified. Knowing who the real enemy really is has been more than half the battle. Millions now see it with clarity. That could not be honestly said even two years ago.
Don’t abandon hope.....and hard work. They might win anyway, but they will win for sure if we don’t fight them at every turn. Our numbers grow. Do your part to advance that by opening people’s eyes with the truth and fighting on.
God bless.
“What WAS the election about in terms of policy?”
The election was 50% about the economy and (like every national election in Ukraine) 50% about Russia. Ukraine’s eastern half has a large Russian-speaking population that will side with Russia in most things. That’s why Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations calls it a “cleft state” and a flashpoint of russian/western conflict. Last election, the pro-west faction won because their base was stirred up by the attempt on their candidates life. Since then, the Ukranian economy has been nearly destroyed by a combination of the global financial crisis and the government’s incompetence, and the pro-russian side seems to have gotten out to vote & perhaps won over some traditional pro-westerners.
There goes any hopes of NATO membership...
Vlasov was a piece of sht. Naci collaborator.
And I juht hate someone telling that Nazis were worser than commies.
they were not. Not by any means.
And “Millions” taken my SMERSH is just plain stupid.
Stalin was bastard, but so were western leaders. Just how many people they murdered in their colonies?
No matter.
You simply do not have an idea what Nazism WAS.
Most evil thing man can come up with. Nothing worser than Nazism will ewer exist.
Surely no one views it as a bad thing that Canada has a pro-US government, so why is it bad that Ukraine has a pro-Russian government? They are two related peoples with a common history
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Whats wrong?/ Well to begin with Ukraine has been terrorized and abused throughout its history by oppressive Russian imperialist govt, whether they be tsarist or Soviet.
The Holodomor was not done to Ukraine as a friendly gesture of brotherhood. Neither were the mass graves and Gulag sentences
The fact that there are a lot of Russians in Ukraine is a direct result of these policies. The eastern part of Ukraine suffered the most from the Holodomor and Stalin's terror campaign and death camps. Those areas of Ukraine were then populated with Russians from the east.
Even in western Ukraine, towns and villages are almost 40% Russian because the Moscow based Govt policies killed or deported millions from those areas during and after the war, and brought in Russians that were loyal and put them next to the western borders.
Yes, Russians and Ukrainians are Slavs, and they should be friends. But unfortunately the rulers in Moscow view the relationship as a one way street.
How did they smuggle Dana Perino into Kyjiv/Kiev and pass her off as a Ukrainian? :D
Anyone in the “Near Abroad” who speaks fluent Russian and is loyal to Russia can get a Russian passport, regardless of ethnicity. In fact, anyone who had a Soviet passport could get Russian citizenship.
Ukranians can still serve in the Russian Army, per CIS regulations.
Thanks Steelfish.
This wouldn’t have been a problem had Putin been assassinated after the Russian invasion of Georgia.
Ugh, another way of sleeping your way to the top.
I don’t think that’s true at all. Most Ukrainians obviously don’t either since they voted for the pro-Russian candidate. Ukrainians were not deported or oppressed by the soviet leadership (which had many ukrainians in it) to any greater degree than any other group in the USSR including ethnic russians themselves.
Doubt it. These people will never accept him as an equal in matters of state. This woman is going to chew Zero up and spit him out. Just for the fun of it. With her and Putin, Russia will be well run and IF she runs the Ukraine in sync with Russia, it will be an interesting development.
We might be able, if we’re smart, to actually develop a solid diplomatic relationship based on mutual gain, but with Zero in the White House, that will be an impossibility. He’s too stupid to manage an attractive, smart woman. I have no doubt the idiot will condescend her the minute they meet.
Ukrainian politics is confusing. My understanding is that Yulia is pro-west, but not to the extent of her former ally, what’s his name, the Viktor they tried to kill during the Orange Revolution. She wants to be friendly to both neighbors.
Soviet Power Supreme
Russia has a 13 percent flat tax - one simple page form
Here in the US we have a 50,000 page tax code, destroying initiative leading to corruption, and getting worse.
So when you claim “Communism” you had better back it up-—I say we are more Socialist then the Russians: spiritually and economically
Mark Davis, McCain campaign advisor, finally wins one
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/A_win_for_Davis_Manafort.html?showall
I thin they are better off with Russia than the West now. The West is falling apart. Russia grows stronger by the year. As does China.
Russia and the Ukraine are like US America and Canada. Like peanut butter and jelly. They belong together.
Thanks for the explanation. Apparently, Ukrainians should be watching Glenn Beck. They have forgotten their history with Russia which we are only now learning. My God, will people never learn.
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