AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AND RUSSIANS?
Americans are big, strong, dumb and stupid, but they aren’t evil – and will make you prosper.
Europeans are incompetent, weak, effeminate, self delusional and stupid, but they aren’t evil – and will make you prosper.
Russians are strong, smart and evil and will make you poor, enslaved, and subject to pervasive corruption.
“In 1917, after Red Revolution some Bolshevik activists wanted to tear up railroads calling it “spawn of capitalists and bourgeois unsuited for communist man”.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/vladimir-putin-web-breakup-internet-cia
Though I’m not certain a breakup would be a bad thing.
@Ukroblogger Apr 24
As the Russians cry foul in Sloviansk, let’s remember what they did to Grozny:
75% of Russian identity is victory over Nazis. Without that, they’re a very diverse collection of nationalities, cultures and religions forced to live under the same kleptocracy.
So they look for Nazis everywhere and when they can’t find them, they create them.
I’ve now had three separate friends receive phone calls from relatives in Russia asking whether it was true that people are beaten in the streets of Lviv for speaking Russian. There was also an internet report of Russians believing that the Russian language was outlawed in Kyiv.
They very effective convince the local populace that they’re surrounded by enemies. Then they take up the task of *creating* enemies.
My friend Dr. Maltsev once told me there was an expression in the Soviet Union that if you beat a Pole long enough, he becomes a Russian.
I think that’s how many Russians regard all their neighbors — people waiting to be beaten into their true identity.
Mozhaev and his comrades took control of Slavyansk about a week ago. But over the past few days there has been no evident sign that they are receiving material support from Russia. Their foot soldiers have been so short on fuel that they have asked journalists to bring them gasoline in exchange for granting interviews, saying they don’t have enough fuel to go on patrols.
Their leader, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, a soap manufacturer who took the title of “people’s mayor” after seizing power, has pleaded for assistance from Russian President Vladimir Putin, but has apparently been ignored. “We need guns, you understand? We’re running out of everything but spirit,” he tells TIME. His militia force, he admits, is made up partly of volunteers who have come from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other parts of the former Soviet Union. But Kiev’s cries of a separatist insurgency fueled with money, weapons and troops from the Russian government look out of sync with the reality in Slavyansk. . . .
In reality, Mozhaev, 36, fits the description of many of the separatist fighters in the area around Slavyansk, a zone of about 100 km in diameter that all branches of the Ukrainian state, from the police to the tax authorities, have effectively abandoned to the separatists. According to his passport, which he showed to TIME, Mozhaev hails from the town of Belorechensk in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar, the traditional stomping ground of the Cossacks, the warrior clan into which he was born.
Though he would have liked to have served in the Russian special forces, he says his service was in the regular Russian army, and it ended in the mid-1990s, when he attained the rank of staff sergeant. His reasons for coming to Ukraine in March had a bit to do with Russian nationalism, but more to do with adventurism, and even more to do with his apparently being a fugitive from Russian law. Earlier this year, Mozhaev said, just as a revolution was forcing Ukraine’s old regime from power, he was charged in Krasnodar with a violent crime — which he described as “threatening to kill someone with a knife.” When he failed to come up with the bribe money for the corrupt officials who he says fabricated the charges, Mozhaev was put on a national wanted list in Russia and went on the run, according to his account, which could not be verified.
By coincidence, he says, he was forced to flee arrest on March 7, in the middle of Russia’s invasion of Crimea. He chose Crimea as his destination. As TIME reported last month, thousands of state-sponsored Russian Cossacks were then streaming into Crimea to aid the Russian troops with that invasion. For most of March, Mozhaev says, he was there along with some of the men from his Cossack battalion, the Wolves’ Hundred, helping in the siege of a Ukrainian military base near the city of Bakhchysarai and guarding a local TV tower. In late March, after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, “we were sitting around down there and wondering what to do next,” he says. “So we decided to go conquer some more historically Russian lands.”
Read more at http://time.com/author/simon-shuster/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1vxyKMy0nQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSBaNI_WGd8
@mashant 35m
Troll of the day award goes to NTV again reporting Ukrainian soldiers in Slavyansk speaking English to each other http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/925276/
Translated by Google
On the Maidan , he got more applause than Yulia Tymoshenko: Dmytro Jarosch , 42 , founder and commander of the nationalist Right Guard sector. The paramilitary force is the great unknown in the struggle for the future of Ukraine, a new force . On the Maidan the fighters of the rights sector guarding the barricades , Molotov cocktails and attacks they wore in February to the escalation , which cost more than a hundred people’s lives and President Viktor Yanukovych the office .
This has earned the right sector , even under moderate Ukrainians sympathy. Many have had enough of oligarchs and Kiev’s political establishment. Jarosch calls radical : a ” Russification ” of the Russian- dominated Ukraine in parts deeply about . The Kremlin give Jaroschs right slogans fodder for their own propaganda : Moscow called the Maidan – revolution as a ” military coup fascist forces.”
The Foreign Ministry in Moscow accused the rights sector to have broken into the night on Sunday the Easter ceasefire in eastern Ukraine . When the fire attack civilians had been killed . The rights sector denies any involvement .
Until recently patrolled the sector fighters still in the center of Kiev. In the hotel Dnipro , a headquarters of their movement , they proudly wore pistols. “We have no weapons anymore,” Jarosch commander protested now . You have ” legalized armed wing ” the , as part of the new National Guard of the “territorial defense ” of Ukraine.
Jarosch has taken the green combat uniform from the Maidan, he now wears a suit and tie. On May 25, he may run for the presidential elections.
In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE Dmytro Jarosch talks about his chances in the election, on anti-Semitism accusations and his hatred for the oligarchs .
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Jarosch , you are the founder of the paramilitary troops right sector. What drives you ?
Jarosch : I ‘m Ukrainian nationalist. My goal is a strong state that Ukraine should never be the geopolitical game ball. Under Viktor Yanukovych a completely corrupted regime has ruled the country . This is true of course also for the period before Yanukovych. We are lining up to change that. As paramilitary but I would not call us . Our revolution will only be complete when we have the state completely renewed. The oligarchic – corrupt system is weakened , but not destroyed.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Do you run for President . How can you be president of the whole country , if not millions of citizens like you see in Lenin an oppressor , but a part of one’s past?
Jarosch : We are not looking for enemies. 40 percent of the members of the right sector itself does not speak Ukrainian, no problem! In everyday life, this has no effect . Who wants to speak Russian, may continue to do so . If someone wants to talk Hebrew , he may also like to talk Hebrew. The national consciousness is also growing in the East. Why else Moscow must rely on agents and paid provocateurs to cause trouble ? Even in Donetsk they have mobilized only a few thousand men.
SPIEGEL ONLINE : But do not want two percent of Ukrainians choose in polls.
Jarosch : Ben- Gurion said: Those who do not believe in miracles is a bad realist. We have already performed miracles in the past few months on the Maidan and Yanukovych chased . Why should not this be done again?
SPIEGEL ONLINE: What do you want to do as president ?
Jarosch : Lower the tax that helps the middle class and foreign investors. We need to establish order in the judiciary. The Ministry of Interior is in fact a terrorist organization.
The police are hated by many Ukrainians. Police force citizens from bribes , there are cases in which act narc himself in a big way with drugs. After the victory of the Maidan try activists of the right sector itself soar to order power. You beleaguered patrol officers and prosecutors. The new Minister of the Interior arsenic Awakow , a follower of Yulia Tymoshenko has ordered the disarming of the troops , but they can never prevail.
SPIEGEL ONLINE : Why do you call liberal gun laws ?
Jarosch : Each Ukrainians should be allowed to carry a firearm. We are a Cossack nation. A Cossack is a free and armed man . The only way we can fight back against the arbitrariness of state power and Russia. Putin can our army easily crushed. The armed people but he will never defeat .
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Do you fear a Russian intervention ?
Jarosch : We are preparing for it. Our battalions are part of the new territorial defense. We are in close contact with the Secret Service, with the General Staff . We have really good relationships at all , except to the police. All information that we receive , indicate an escalation . Russia is preparing strokes off on Kharkiv , Luhansk , Sumy , Donetsk and of course from the Crimea .
Russia has focused for weeks troops at the border with Ukraine . NATO estimates their strength up to 40,000 men . Moscow has denied the troop movements long , but later added. NATO fears that the troops overrun the Ukrainian army within three to five days and could occupy half the Ukraine. But despite refusal of the Russians to Jarosch is also critical when it comes to a great approach to Europe.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Do you castigate the “liberal totalitarianism ” of the EU . What is this?
Jarosch : Ukraine is a European country , we want the association agreement . But : We have fought too long to our sovereignty , we do not want to leave again at a Brussels bureaucracy that wants to impose on us other life forms . What bothers me is the EU’s anti-Christian orientation. We are against the destruction of the traditional family , against gay marriage . In France, hundreds of thousands have protested , but their voices are not heard. The media is controlled by liberal groups, which all impose their opinion . This is a variant of totalitarianism.
In his pamphlet “Nation and Revolution ” shows Jarosch as an opponent of parliamentary democracy. ” Parliamentary parties , blocks and fractions ” in the Ukrainian parliament were only ” segments of the regime of internal occupation” . Word equal with Russian nationalists railed against Jarosch ” denationalization , homosexuality and drug addiction .” His world view is shaped by a totalitarian ethno-nationalism . It calls for the ” dissemination of nationalist ideology on the entire territory of our state ,” including the Russian-speaking east. His goal is to enforce the ” leading role of the root people in the state .”
My type of guy. I wish I could meet him.
Sloviansk’s self-imposed “mayor” Vyacheslav Ponomarev promised to prevent presidential elections in Ukraine at any cost .”We will take all necessary measures so that elections in the southeast do not take place” – he said, referring not only to Sloviansk, but the whole of Ukraine.
Asked how he would accomplish this, he responded, “We’ll take somebody as hostage and hang him by the balls.”
He also promised to destroy dissent, calling it “a harsh truth of life.”
I think things are going to get ugly in the next few weeks.
In what appears to be its first act after the restart of an anti-terror operation to purge Kremlin-backed separatists from eastern Ukraine, the country’s elite Interior Ministry forces “liberated” the resort town of Svyatohirsk in northern Donetsk Oblast “from unlawful armed groups,” the ministry reported on its website.
Prior to the operation, Ukrainian security officials had discovered the city’s monastery, the Svyatohirsk Assumption Lavra of the Moscow Patriarchate, served as a military base for the insurgents who have besieged the region.
“The Interior Ministry’s special forces have freed the town of Svyatohirsk from an illegal armed group of separatists. Law enforcers who took part in the anti-terrorist operation drove the illegal armed groups out of the village. There have been no casualties,” the ministry’s report reads.
Police are now patrolling and securing the city, it says.
Svyatohirsk is of strategic importance, as it is located at the border of three regions: Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk.
I’d rather they be waving guns instead of flags.
Type 45 looking good, vs the Ruskie tub!
