I caught a couple of minute blurb on the preparations in Sochi the other night. Evidently, the area where they are building the Olympic village, is devoid of any structures. They showed the area, and it was nothing but wilderness as far as I could tell. They are starting with nothing, and building a complete venue.
While I want to be sympathetic to the indigenous people’s of the region, what are folks supposed to do today about their complaints?
If we tried to do something just about anywhere in the U. S. these days, we’d have our own set of problems along these lines.
The United Nations is trying it’s best to drum stuff like this up too, seeking to demand massive reparations for various indigenous groups, and hobble any progress by current nations by demanding they deal with those groups to get anything done.
I’m not convinced this is something we should play along with. Course that’s unless we want to totally surrender, give up, and die.
The USSR was in the Palestinain’s corner, a tradition Putin continued. Hard for me to be overly sympathetic.
People really need to get over what happened long before they were born.