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1 posted on 04/28/2014 2:43:59 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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2 posted on 04/28/2014 3:21:31 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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Today the Security Service of Ukraine managed to capture a KGB captain of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Moldavian Republic.

Shouldn't it be FSB?

3 posted on 04/28/2014 4:20:28 AM PDT by John123 (US$ - I owe you nothing. Euro - Who owes you nothing.)
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Transnistrian KGB. LOL!


4 posted on 04/28/2014 4:47:15 AM PDT by dangus
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Transnistria is a small strip of land on the far side of the Dneiper River from the rest of what once was Moldavia S.S.R. of the Soviet Union. It’s only a couple miles wide, and consists mostly of flood plain. It wouldn’t make a noteworthy county in the U.S. In contrast with Moldava proper, it’s mostly comprised of Russians, Ukrainians, and Bulgarians.

When the U.S.S.R. split up, Moldava descended into a totalitarian hellhole. According to Amnesty International, arbitrary arrests and torture are still common (as of 2009). So it looks like Transnistria’s fear of ethnic brutality was quite reasonable.

Transnistria has Russian troops present, but claims to be an independent Republic. Few states have recognized it. The hostility between the Ukraine and Russia places Transnistria in grave economic peril, since it’s so tiny and relies on movement across the Ukrainian border into Odessa for virtually its entire economy; that’s probably why Russia never annexed it: the bad PR of the annexation would probably be ruinous to the country; it’s far too small and isolated to function as an exclave.

So are there Transnistrians who are working against the current anti-Russian regime in Ukraine? Wouldn’t surprise me at all. Are there Russians in Transnistria causing trouble? Again, wouldn’t surprise me. But does a county the size of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (home of Worcestor), with a third the population have any state apparatus that could be likened to the KGB? It is to laugh, mock, deride and ridicule.


5 posted on 04/28/2014 5:13:42 AM PDT by dangus
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