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Pro-Russia Protesters Seize Government Building In East Ukraine, Demand Autonomy
While the general sentiment may be that Russia has put its territorial expansion plans vis-a-vis Ukraine on hold, if only for the time being, pro-Russian protesters in East Ukraine, whether premeditated or spontaneous, seem to have not gotten the memo. Earlier today, in a repeat of events that took place just as the pre-Crimea annexation plotline hit a fever pitch, dozens of pro-Russia protesters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk stormed the regional government building on Sunday and hung a Russian flag, demanding once again for autonomy from Ukraine.
The hometown of pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovich, Donetsk has seen tensions rise, as they have across mainly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, since his ouster and the installation of a pro-European government in Kiev.
Pro-Russia protesters, who had been protesting on Sunday stormed the administrative building in Donetsk, hung a Russian flag over a second-floor balcony. Around 1,500 protesters who had surrounded the building cheered, chanting "Russia!".
A Reuters reporter said around 500 police stood by without interfering.
In the nearby city of Lugansk, protesters also stormed the offices of the state security services. No injuries were reported at either location.
Pro-Russian demonstrators have held rallies in eastern Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, not far from the border with Russia where Moscow has gathered troops and boosted their numbers to tens of thousands.
That this is happening days after Gazprom announced it would hike Ukraine gas prices by 80%, effectively launching the nation into energetic, pardon the pun, and hyperinflationary turmoil, is hardly a coincidence: after all what better way to capitalize on what is certain to be a broad popular revulsion against the new "hope and change" government (which is the same as the government from years ago) which is squeezing the last hryvnia from the embattled population, than to remind the furious population that Uncle Vlad can make it all better, if only the various regions hold a referendum to secede from Ukraine and re-enter the second coming of the USSR.
After all, it worked without a hitch in Crimea.
And this is how it may work in the first major city in Eastern Donetsk that appears set to shift to a Russian allegiance.
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the u.s. is addicted to meddling around the world. and it will be its downfall.its not like it doesnt have enough problems at home ha ha poverty etc. i would liken it to someone whos roof and basement are leaking and is two blocks over telling people they need to weed their lawn. and so the american empire will fail as have all other empires and for the same reasons, arrogance. and good riddance to them too.
Ukraine society consists of two separate mentalities
one is pro-russian the other is pro-western
none of the pro-western presidential candidates is able to go to the eastern parts and promote himself there
none of the pro-eastern presidential candidates is able to go to the western parts and promote himself there
they can not elect a president that would not be seen by other half of the population as enemy
if you think Militant Faciast Ukrainians are nice people, you only need to ask Mr. Google to fetch you some images from the WW2
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galiciathere are pictures of murdered children that will haunt you for ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_...
Yugoslavia and these parts of Ukraine both have long played host to evil that few of us can imagine. It never seems to end, you wonder what god these people feel they live under. They know no limits on murder, none at all. Google World War II Ukrainian death camp guards. So evil they mad the Nazi's sick to their stomachs. Same for the Nazi Croatian forces allied with Nazi Germany. Their death camps were so bad that Nazi's SS reported that something should be done to close them!
And long before any of that there was the Golden Horde that raped and pillaged for 100 years, forever changing the DNA of the people. WW2 killed around 3% of the world population whereas the Horde killed around 12%, in both cases with most of the dead being Eastern.
Highly fertile soils and indefensible steppes means a population vulnerable to slaughter. The East could never keep pace with the development of Western Europe with the Eastern populace being annually raided and slaughtered [http://www.terrain.org/articles/28/playground/3.htm]. It has always been a region of death.
Churchill said without hesitation that Stalin was equally evil as Hitler. He didn't burn his victims, but buried them thoughout Europe or left their corpes to rot by the millions. In fact they came in threes with Mao killing millions of his own people for the good of the People?
Strange, how... Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were all in WWII? Gengihis Khan was a piker...
God, no wonder the free world was spooked when the war ended and the truth surfaced about incenerations, mass graves, and literally hundreds of acres littered with dead throughout Europe. Twas without comparison a very fine decade for 'Satan'!!!
Ps. The German propaganda machine created the Bolshevik Revolution in May/1917? Yes, the same year Wilson brought the USA into WWI-- Apr/1917, and created the FRBs for good measure?!? Care for a diversion with your deception mr. nwo?!?
This Churchill-
In 1943, some 3 million brown-skinned subjects of the Raj died in the Bengal famine, one of history's worst. Mukerjee delves into official documents and oral accounts of survivors to paint a horrifying portrait of how Churchill, as part of the Western war effort, ordered the diversion of food from starving Indians to already well-supplied British soldiers and stockpiles in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, including Greece and Yugoslavia. And he did so with a churlishness that cannot be excused on grounds of policy: Churchill's only response to a telegram from the government in Delhi about people perishing in the famine was to ask why Gandhi hadn't died yet.
Man, this is soooo confusing...
But Steven Spielberg taught me the only oppressed people during the Great War were jews...
Ukraine needs another line, give little Barry some more crayons & a map.
The "three prizes of Ukraine" which the US/EU want to seize are:
1. the Black Sea naval base, 2. the gas pipelines, 3. the South East's industry and resources.
Russia is taking action to put these "prizes" out of reach:
1. Crimea and its Black Sea ports - already gone.
2. Gas pipelines - With the expansion of natgas deals with China (reported here), Russia could soon afford to cut off the Ukraine pipelines (or at least threaten to do so), which would render them worthless.
3. The industrial facilities and mining resources, which are concentrated in the South East - Russia has already called for federalization and said that any part of Ukraine which wants to join Russia will be welcomed like Crimea was.
If EU/US loses all "three prizes", then they will be left with the financial burden of the western/central regions and no assets in Ukraine.
All explained here:
Three prizes of Ukraine, Nikolai Starikov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrki2zYJ-5Q
US private military companies to suppress pro-Russian demonstrations in East Ukraine?
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/03/us-private-military-companies...