Posted on 04/06/2014 9:36:37 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
(KIEV, Ukraine) — Crowds of pro-Russian demonstrators stormed government buildings Sunday in two major cities in eastern Ukraine, where secessionist sentiment has sparked frequent protests since Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president was ousted in February.
In Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, hundreds of people surrounded the local headquarters of the security service and later scaled the facade to plant a Russian flag on the roof.
In Donetsk, to the southwest, a large group of people surged into the provincial government building and smashed windows. A gathering of several hundred, many of them waving Russian flags, then listened to speeches delivered from a balcony emblazoned with a banner reading “Donetsk Republic.”
Eastern Ukraine was the heartland of support for Viktor Yanukovych, the president who fled to Russia in February after months of protests. About half of the region’s residents are ethnic Russians, many of whom believe Ukraine’s acting authorities are Ukrainian nationalists who will oppress Russians.
Ukraine’s interim authorities deny they are infringing the rights of the ethnic Russian population and accuse Moscow of trying to sow instability. Russia has moved large contingents of troops to areas near the Ukrainian border, and speculation is strong that unrest in eastern Ukraine could be used as a pretext for a Russian incursion.
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Be fair, I have the same reaction when I see a Russian today carrying a picture of Stalin, which I’ve seen many times.
Glad to see you admit it, Herr Homofascista.
Lol...what year was that poll taken?
A federal solution is break up.
Worked for the Czechs and Slovaks.
Of course not, but if this were the 1950s you would be one of those who saw a Potemkin village and thought that the Soviet Union was a lovely place to live.
Obama supporting the revolution in Ukraine doesnt make it bad anymore than Lutin opposing Obama makes him good.
That sort of emotionally derived logic is more befitting of the leftists.
Coincidentally, the far left, the eo Stalinists and the rest of the Jew hating, hate-America crowd are completely on the same page as you on this topic.
How about NATO membership?
What makes you think Obama supports the revolution in Ukraine....Doofus probably can’t even find Ukraine on a map.
Polls taken un Crimea 6 months ago showed only 42% wanted to join Russia, in the east it is even lesz. Had Stalin not shipped out or murdered many of the native inhabitants and shipped in native Russians, the entire premise would be laughable.
Hey! What are Agitational Specialists getting paid these days?
The poster i was replying to seems to believe it since Alex Jones told him so.
I'll answer that. Yes, if that's what a majority of the people in Corpus Christi wanted. That's one of the primary reasons for being adamantly opposed to the invasion of the US.
Besides which, this is different. Those Russians in eastern Ukraine never asked for or voted for the tire burning thugs who took over a few building in Kiev. They should have every right to vote themselves away from that EU/globalist/US puppet government.
“Why would it need to be Spetnaz?”
Past behavior (by Putin before and after collapse of USSR in Lithuania, Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Crimea) is the best indicator of future behavior, IMO.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gorbachev-meets-with-lithuanian-prime-minister
“Despite optimistic press releases concerning their talks, it quickly became apparent that Lithuania would not back down on its claim to independence. After imposing economic sanctions and threatening military action, the Soviet Union launched a full-scale military assault against Lithuania in January 1991.”
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303532704579476972067682740
Moscow has already consolidated its control over Armenia. Yerevan, like Tbilisi, had negotiated an association agreement with the European Union in July 2013. Yet Mr. Putin two months later bullied Yerevan to join his own custom union instead. And in both Georgia and Azerbaijan, Mr. Putin is investing in pro-Russian constituencies among opposition politicians, civil-society groups and ethnic minorities. Leaders in both Azerbaijan and Georgia have been left unimpressed by the Western reaction to the Crimea crisis. Both wonder when and where the risks of their pro-Western foreign policies outweigh the benefits.
They dont want to join NATO. A majority of Ukrainians want to join the EU, those between 18 and 40 aporove of joining the EU at around a 70% clip. However, there is little interest in joining NATO.
So you think people who want a free country are fascist and homosexual? You’re the perfect little Putinista boy.
They didnt vote for Berkut murdering journalists and killing people in the streets either. Eastern Ukraine is not Crimea, the majority population is not Russian in most places.
If those people want to live in Russia, they can do what Ukrainians in Crimea did and that is pack up and leave. The border isnt that far.
Thats the same thing I would say to Mexicans protesting in Corpus Christi...”the border is that way, GTFO.”
Where did I say that?
Don’t know the rate in rubles.
February 2014.
LOL. Good times indeed.
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