Posted on 02/22/2014 9:29:04 PM PST by Jeff Head
There are some old badasses in the crowd.
There are some people in the world that the term “never again”, holds special meaning.
Thank you so much for your post. I was having trouble understanding what was going on there...
>>>Yes we do. A few million armed Americans heading into DC from the south, north and west would send a nice shock down their backs as they try to get out of town.<<<
It’s a nice theory, GeronL, but it is not working if you are to look into Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. Governments of many nations there are too incompetent and corrupt to establish effective gun control and for that reason there are less people who own a pair of shoes than select-fire rifles in some places. Still, these governments are extremely repressive towards their populations and guns doesn’t make a good help.
Yeah, I noticed that. Go Seniors! Ready for the call. . .
that’s a pellet rifle.
I would not be surprised if the Holodomor were a factor in anti-Russian sentiment. Then there was the decade-long suppression of Ukrainian partisan fighters after WWII, along with the associated massacres (~200K dead). The Soviet-era official narrative obviously papered over the historical unpleasantries, but these things have a way of coming to the surface during periods of international tension. I expect ethnic Ukrainians - including Russian speakers - who had little knowledge of the atrocities are now getting an eye-opening education.
These aren't though:
Thanks, Jeff
"The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор, "Extermination by hunger") was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932 and 1933. During the famine, which is also known as the "Terror-Famine in Ukraine", millions of citizens of Ukrainian SSR, the majority of whom were Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine. Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine and several other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. Early estimates of the death toll by scholars and government officials varied greatly; anywhere from 1.8 to 12 million ethnic Ukrainians were said to have perished as a result of the famine."
From HOW MANY DID COMMUNIST REGIMES MURDER?:
"Communism has been the greatest social engineering experiment we have ever seen. It failed utterly and in doing so it killed over 100,000,000 men, women, and children, not to mention the near 30,000,000 of its subjects that died in its often aggressive wars and the rebellions it provoked. But there is a larger lesson to be learned from this horrendous sacrifice to one ideology. That is that no one can be trusted with power. The more power the center has to impose the beliefs of an ideological or religious elite or impose the whims of a dictator, the more likely human lives are to be sacrificed."
And the kids and Marxist professors think communism is cool. . If you don't know history. . .
Fight for Freedom, in the Ukraine and the USA!
Tyrants everywhere, noto bene
Nice work Jeff. Bump.
I was in Moscow last year, it has the opportunity to talk to a few young Russians about abuses of Stalin. They would go on and on about the secret police and the Gulags, but did not have much to say about the starvation of Ukraine. Either they did not believe it happened, or had an attitude they were Ukrainians, and what are you going to do? Omlettes and eggs...
It’s worth remembering that our warships were there all along knowing this uprising would come during the Olympics when Putin’s hands were most tied: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/20/us-warships-deploy-for-sochi-olympics/
It’s also worth remembering that 0bama’s girl in the Ukraine, Ms. Nuland, said “F*ck the EU” to their efforts to defuse the tnesions...which is to say, the U.S. was and is in favor of the tensions there, suggesting that the U.S. was aiding the unrest.
Also, if you are a prepper, check your gear. Things may not go thermo-nuclear, but it is all up to Putin and our clown in DC between now and March 25.
Thank you, sir, for this overview.
>> Yulia Tymoshenko, who was jailed in 2011, was freed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_cases_against_Yulia_Tymoshenko_since_2010
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