"He wasn't," she snapped. "Khrushchev had roaches in his head."
That could explain a few things.
It has to be asked what is in the interest of the Russian people in this context? We have to view the territories populated by ethnic Russians as shared by two peoples: the Russians, a small minority by now, and the Soviets. The latter is "the new socialist community of men" as the Khruschevite propaganda called them. And on that score, it was correct. I wish whatever remains of True Russia, the Russia of the Tsars, all the best. It is for that reason for Putin to fight for sovietized Crimea is not only to fight against the treaties that RF signed; it is not only aggression against the internationally recognized in the present, and presently violated, borders of the sovereign country of Ukraine; it is a further injury to the disappearing Russian nation dealt by the KGB.
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Its a very human story. You cannot but have respect for a widow from a family of military tradition.
Ukraine is less a country than a state of mind. It has what is called in Canada the two solitudes.
Its a bilingual country and needs to embrace its past and its dual heritage.
If Ukrainian nationalists insist on having it their way, they may be left with half a country and they’ve already lost, it appears, the Crimea.
>>Galina Onischenko’s<<
BTW, her name is ethnic-Ukrainian.
Russia can’t let Crimea go — not as a matter of geological reality.
"He wasn't," she snapped. "Khrushchev had roaches in his head."
That could explain a few things.
Naturally for a movement that seeks to reunite with the Russian Federation, we have a prevalence of white-blue-and-red flags, or similarly themed "Russian Unity" flags. Thes are the flag of the Imperial Russia and of the White Movement that the Russian Federation had expropriated and awkwardly and shamelessly goes by. But why is there so many old USSR flags? The USSR is what gave the Crimea to Ukraine as if these people were trainloads of lumber. It is not them for its unity symbolism that the red flags are brought to demonstrations in the Crimea but because -- well, you know. The bull and the red rag, remember? It is the visceral attraction to the Soviet System, a passion that even forgives the very transfer of Crimea that they should now lament, -- that is driving them. Russians they are not. They are Sovs. That is all they are.
Images selection courtesy Theodor Mamonov: Red Sevastopol.