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Frightening comparison of Putin Crimea speech to Hitler’s Danzig speech.

A plagiarism scandal is making rounds in Russia after it was discovered that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech over the annexation of Crimea, the first anniversary of which will be pompously celebrated in Russia on March 16, mirrored the speech of the German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler over the annexation of Danzig and the Corridor. Euromaidan Press provides a comparison of the two speeches.

http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/03/16/plagiarism-scandal-in-russia-hitlers-speech-copied-for-crimea-annexation/

45% of Russians believe national greatness justified “sacrifices” made under Stalin

Petrov says this sentiment which stems from the country’s leaders – who long for the days when the USSR were a world superpower – has filtered down to many everyday Russians.

Now 45 per cent of people believe ‘sacrifices’ sustained by people under Stalin were justified by the country’s great goals, according to a study by the respected Levada Centre pollster.

That number is up from 27 per cent in October 2008 while the number of people who viewed Stalin negatively fell to 20 per cent from 43 per cent in 2001.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3069108/The-rehabilitation-Stalin-Putin-rewrites-history-convince-half-Russians-megalomaniac-dictator-just-man-good-intentions.html

Russians shell Donetsk (territories they control)

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Russian general #Lentsov showing his true colors on Russian TV, blaming Ukraine for the shelling HIS ARMY is doing:

Who’s killing allies of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych?

A huge criminal empire has collapsed. I think these deaths are a combination of suicides, paypack, people killing potential witnesses, and finally, yes, revenge.

Oleg Kalashnikov, the former member of parliament, was shot and killed shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday at the entrance to his apartment block. Kalashnikov, 52, was a member of the Party of Regions, the former ruling party in Ukraine, and was close to Yanukovych. Police are investigating the death as a murder.

A day later, on Thursday, journalist Oles Buzyna, 45, was killed near his home by shots fired from a dark blue Ford Focus, Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said. The car’s license plates were reported to have been from either Latvia or Belorussia.

The killings renewed speculation, sparked by earlier unusual deaths, about a conspiracy to kill people close to Yanukovych. At least three former members of parliament with the Party of Regions have reportedly committed suicide in the last seven weeks:

• On February 28, Mikhail Chechetov reportedly jumped from the window of his 17th-floor apartment in Kiev, having left a suicide note. He was suspected of having falsified the results of a parliamentary vote in early 2014 that essentially prohibited protest just as thousands of people were protesting against the Yanukovych government.

• On March 9, Stanislav Melnik, a former member of parliament with the Party of Regions and the manager of several businesses in the separatist-minded eastern city of Donetsk, was found dead in his apartment near Kiev. He, too, reportedly left a suicide note.

• And three days later, on March 12, Oleksandr Peklushenko, another former member of parliament, was found in his house in Zaporizhzhya, in southeastern Ukraine, dead of a gunshot wound. Police are investigating various scenarios, including suicide. Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said Peklushenko “might have wanted to avoid punishment for using violence against protesters, which he was suspected of.”

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/17/europe/ukraine-political-killings/index.html

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http://news.yahoo.com/ukraines-old-guard-plagued-mystery-deaths-113906039.html

Anton Shekhovtsov: Russia and Front National: Following the Money

According to the leaked messages, on 10 March 2014, a week before the “referendum” in Russia-occupied Crimea, Prokopenko asked whether Rykov could bring Marine Le Pen as a “referendum” observer to Crimea, adding that her prospective participation would be important and that he informed his boss, Oleg Morozov, that Rykov was in contact with her. Rykov promised to find out.

Rykov replied the next day saying that Le Pen was on tour campaigning for her party’s municipal elections, so she was unlikely to go, but one of her deputies could go in her stead. Prokopenko seemed happy about this development and said that someone from Russia’s Foreign Ministry would call Le Pen. Then Rykov added that the Danes supported “them” (Russia) too, but it was difficult for Rykov to communicate with them as he did not know the Danish language.

These communications correspond well to the developments in March 2014. Le Pen did not indeed go to Crimea, but her contemporary adviser on international relations, Aymeric Chauprade, went to observe the “referendum”. The French newspaper Libération informed, with a reference to Chauprade’s entourage, that he had been invited to monitor the “referendum” by the Eurasian Observatory for Democracy & Elections (EODE), a Belgium-based NGO run by Belgian extreme right activist Luc Michel. . . .

http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.com/2015/05/russia-and-front-national-following.html