Posted on 02/23/2014 10:39:13 AM PST by 1rudeboy
Indeed. Buuuuump!
Thank you for that link. It certainly sheds a lot of light on things. Makes me think John McCain is over there trying to jump in front of the parade and tell everyone he is leading it.
Great post, btw! :-)
Great to hear from someone who has been there!
“Obviously we dont know where this is going to lead, but step one was getting rid of the corrupt government. “
I’m certain a lot of Frenchmen said the same thing in 1793, and so did a lot of Russians in 1917...I hope FREEDOM wins!
Thanks!
I actually saw the protesters from just across Khreshchatyk street when I returned to Kiev from Odessa the night before I returned to the US. What's really sobering is that I received an email Saturday night from my guide/translator with links to some pictures of the aftermath of the protests. In one of them were the bodies of 2 dead men with their faces covered with tarps. The photographer was standing within feet of where I was hassled by the Kiev police in early November.
He privatized the state owned mansion. Obama could privatize the white house and half the people in this country would approve and all but a few republicans would remain silent.
note also that despite the Russian claims of weapons in the hands of the opposition, there were next to none. The people used the power of right
Were you a fan of the “Arab Spring” too? Save me the rhetoric.
Tough people. They generally are good-natured, happy folk but don’t piss them off.
My dad’s side got here in the 1902/3 time frame.
Roger that, my brother.
They missed the Holodomor then. Good.
My Grandmother lost her entire family, supposedly. We don’t really know as there aren’t any surviving records. She would have been around 10 at the time...
According to my old man (way back when I was a kid, he passed away when I was 15) we had actual Cossack ancestors...
RE Holodomor: Yeah, Stalin was real good at killing... as all Socialists are. He made Hitler look like a rank amateur. He killed 25 million in Ukraine alone by starvation.
Too bad someone didn’t put a 12x power scope on his temple from a couple hundred yards and spare the world...
Here’s a good article on the Holodomor.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4656-holodomor-the-secret-holocaust-in-ukraine
All: “Holodomor” refers to Stalin and his communists’ intentional murder of Ukrainian citizens by forced starvation.
:)
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