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I want to map out all the propaganda flying back and forth from WWII to these protests. Its evolution has been fascinating to me.

Someone needs to write a detailed analysis of this conflict from the paradigm of a revolt of the Dnipropetrovsk mafia (which has ties to Europe and the Jewish community) against the Donetsk mafia (which has ties to Moscow).

Dnipropetrovsk Mafia:

Pinchuk
Kolomoyskyi
Yulia Tymoshenko
Pavlo Lazarenko
Serhiy Tihipko
Yatzeniuk (?)
Andriy Klyuyev (?)

Donetsk Mafia:

Yanukovych Family
Rinat Akhmetov
Dmytro Firtash (? – temporary allegiance)
Vadym Novinsky

(This list is not complete and may not be accurate. Elmer, Andriy, can you help me?)

A fairly exotic source, the Tehran Times, reports on secession referendum in Donetsk: http://www.tehrantimes.com/component/content/article/114438

I’ve been to Donetsk for an economics lecture (see here, here).

The people seemed to be of mixed identity eager to shake of the negative image which President Yanukovych and his mafia has saddled them with. Some expressed their Ukrainian patriotism to me. I’m certain they are of mixed identity.

A referendum would be great.

I would love for this story to be correct. I wouldn’t mind the referendum voting against continued Ukrainian sovereignty in favor of autonomy (unlikely) or Russia (more likely). Then perhaps Donetsk and their infamous mafia hold a referendum and go away.

Sadly, the crime bosses who control Donetsk would make sure any referendum keeps Donetsk with Ukraine. They are Russian and Akhmetov is Tartar, but they get use the country of Ukraine as a gigantic ATM machine and they want to keep it that way. If they have to invoke Ukrainian patriotism, they’ll do that.

The perspective of the oligarchs defies the dominant east vs. west geopolitical narrative of this struggle.

Among the nationalists in this video is Topaz, who has been a recurring character. If you look through my earlier posts, you cna find him in the video of Titushka’s beating a Russian journalist (who attempted to portray them as heroes). He was also captured and interviewed by protesters. He was released unharmed apparently.

The pro-Russian protesters show no such mercy.

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“Two people have died of their wounds as a result of injuries in the storming of the Kharkiv State Administration Building by Russian nationalists on 2 March, ATN.ua reports, citing a medical official.

Dmitry Pilipets, co-organizer of EuroMaidan in Kharkiv, confirmed that the two people who died were members of his movement.” http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-13-beatings-in-kharkiv-defections-in-crimea/

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The “One Ukraine” idea is emerging very strong from this conflict. I need to be mindful of this when I advocate local autonomy and make sure people understand that it’s a bulwark against corruption, not a division of the country.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-02/ukraine-capital-control-crunch-largest-bank-limits-cash-withdrawals-100-daily

“Predicting the imminent collapse of the U.S. dollar, a Russian lawmaker submitted a bill to his country’s parliament Wednesday that would ban the use or possession of the American currency.
Mikhail Degtyarev, the lawmaker who proposed the bill, compared the dollar to a Ponzi scheme. He warned that the government would have to bail out Russians holding the U.S. currency if it collapses.
“If the U.S. national debt continues to grow, the collapse of the dollar system will take place in 2017,” said Mr. Degtyarev, a member of the nationalist Liberal Democrat Party who lost in Moscow’s recent mayoral election.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/bill-would-outlaw-us-dollar-russia/#ixzz2uoRi0dad

“I am a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian Jew, who’s been living in Ukraine for five years. I have never had a problem with the fact that I’m a Russian speaker, or with my Jewish music. Not in Lvov, or Kiev, or the Maidan. I’ve never seen any “Banderite-fascists,” Nazis and anti-Semites–it’s a myth. Putin, with broad support from the people of Russia, sent troops into Ukraine: this is not, in any way, protection against extremists. It’s a war against a peaceful, independent country. Shame on Russia. It is a terrible misfortune.”

~Mitya Gerasimov

See the beginning of my tour of the Lychakivski Cemetary for a brief discussion of the Galician SS Division.

For a broader engagement of the subject, I recommend Timothy Snyder’s book, Bloodlands. He details the plight of people trapped between Stalin and Hitler.

I wish more Ukrainians were caution of the West, the globalists, the central bankers.

Russian media has been commenting on this photo as an example of Ukrainian Nazi’s running amok all over Crimea. This is the same uniform “Titushky” wore at Maidan when they fought against the protesters beside the riot police. Also, these are Russian weapons. Also, why do they all have irregular clothes but identical boots?

I think Tim Snyder nailed it when he said about the Yanukovych regime “[It] is telling itself that its opponents are Jews and us that its opponents are Nazis.”

The same might be said of Putin’s propaganda. The man who allegedly raised the Russian flag in Kharkiv seems to have a softspot for Nazi’s if VK researchers are correct:

I should write a piece about the historic and present day rhetoric being used by both sides…

Доброй всем ночи.

Я, Мкртчян Артем Сергеевич, владеющий 2 (двумя единицами) стрелкового оружия, официально заявляю:

ПРАВО НА ВЛАДЕНИЕ ОРУЖИЕМ НЕОБХОДИМО КАЖДОМУ ГРАЖДАНИНУ НАШЕЙ СТРАНЫ.

Прошу всех, в особенности моих друзей и знакомых, начать всеукраинскую акцию “Право на оружие – право на защиту”. Целью и задачей данной акции является введение в Конституцию Украины неотъемлемого права для любого, психически здорового гражданина, не имеющего судимости владеть, носить и применять холодное, метательное, огнестрельное оружие согласно Законам Украины. Исключить из Криминального Кодекса Украины статьи ограничивающие право, методы, средства и рамки самообороны, исключить понятие “необходимая оборона”.

Данное заявление написано с целью привлечь общественное внимание к проблеме самозащиты граждан Украины в мирное время от криминальных элементов и государственного произвола, а также не допустить вмешательство _любых _ государств во внутренние дела нашей страны.

Поводом стали множественные обращения моих друзей и знакомых, которые знают что я являюсь одним из активистов оружейного движения в Украине, с вопросом о возможности получить доступ к оружию для защиты своего дома и семей в столь не спокойные времена. По возможности, я помогаю объединится людям с правом на ношение оружия с теми, кому требуется защита, для совместных действий.

Не будьте безразличными, пример сегодняшних дней, отсутствие милицейской защиты простестующих, прямая угроза суверенитету страны, легкость с которой иностранные войска пересекают границу, заставляет нас ДЕЙСТВОВАТЬ!

UPD Предлагаю: Всем кто заинтересован в продвижении ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ ИНИЦИАТИВЫ присоединиться ко мне для реализации. Без оглядки на партийность, язык, цвет кожи и остальные различия.

Ukraine needs to embrace its historic role, not to mention the strategic reality, that makes it a border land.

It needs to resist influence from both Moscow and the West. The self-reliant spirit of the Kozaks could not more perfectly fit this reality.

Within this role, Ukraine needs to find liberty. I recommend:

1. gun ownership
2. decentralizing the bureaucracy
3. competing currencies
4. unilateral free trade