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Pro-Russian demonstrators burn books, storm buildings in eastern Ukraine
Reuters ^ | March 16, 2014 | Lina Kushch

Posted on 03/16/2014 2:38:00 PM PDT by No One Special

Pro-Russian demonstrators in eastern Ukraine smashed their way into public buildings and burned Ukrainian-language books on Sunday in further protests following two deadly clashes in the region last week.

Protests, some several thousand strong, spread to Russian-speaking southern districts as Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, under the control of the Russian military for two weeks, voted in a referendum on joining Russia.

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In Kharkiv, Reuters Television footage showed pro-Russian activists scaling an iron gate, smashing a van and breaking into the offices of a Ukrainian cultural center. Two policemen stood nearby, examining the van.

The footage then showed young men seizing Ukrainian-language books, including a volume devoted to the 1932-1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine, which killed from 7-10 million people.

"Do you see what they print here?" one activist said to another.

The activists then took the books into the street and set them alight in small bonfires...

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: coldwar2; communism; communists; holodomor; kgb; putin; russia; sovietunion; ukraine; uukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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To: caww
Do the math..


81 posted on 03/16/2014 10:47:21 PM PDT by caww
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To: Matt_DZ_PL
However, they will sell Ukraine as soon as the scream in the media subsides, just like they sold Czechoslovakia to Hitler before WWII. That's why I’m here, just because I cannot imagine being elsewhere now.”

Exactly. We let Poland hang for 50 years because of Roosevelt and the Democrats. If Russia invades Poland, I'll go over.

82 posted on 03/16/2014 10:59:59 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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To: No One Special

...do they still want to join the EU and the West since we’re hanging them out to dry?


83 posted on 03/16/2014 11:32:43 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Tzimisce

I would want to be free to choose my own government.


84 posted on 03/16/2014 11:59:23 PM PDT by No One Special
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To: Norm Lenhart

Tin foil is not tin it’s aluminimum and is not dense enoungh to protect you from those unhealthy rays. It’s lead foil that will do the job. Use lead foil.


85 posted on 03/17/2014 2:59:55 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: No One Special; All
Send this story to anyone who claims the 2A is irrelevant in the modern age.
86 posted on 03/17/2014 3:06:06 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: No One Special

Who remembers the “green shoots” of a new diplomacy that were supposed to be shooting up after Hussein was first elected? And the silly editorial cartoons illustrating them?

Well, here they are. All grown up now into the poisonous swamp that liberal policies breed with alarming predictability.

All of of foreign policy diplomats are bone hard liberals with no conception of what will really happen when they project their policies on the World stage, and reality is smacking them right across the face...


87 posted on 03/17/2014 7:02:18 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: KC_Lion

Agreed.


88 posted on 03/17/2014 7:49:28 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Well said, DO.


89 posted on 03/17/2014 7:52:26 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Indeed.


90 posted on 03/17/2014 7:54:15 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

If you were Ukrainian and wanted to join Russia, you would have to have a short memory or just be stupid.


91 posted on 03/17/2014 7:56:23 AM PDT by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

How much does Putin pay you to push his propaganda? Or do you do it for free?


92 posted on 03/17/2014 8:36:20 AM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot (USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Better dead than Red. Putin = Hitler 2014)
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To: john drake

“....Where’s Ronald Reagan when you need him?...”

Long gone and deeply missed.

But He already did his part.


93 posted on 03/17/2014 9:26:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Red White and Blue patriot

Sorry, I wasn’t aware that the history of this planet, one which a thinking person can go into any library and read, was Propaganda”, Putin or otherwise.

Ok, my turn. Are you proud of the ignorance you repeatedly show in these threads or just lacking in awareness of it? Because considering the above, it could go either way.


94 posted on 03/17/2014 1:09:01 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

To equate the support America has given to freedom fighters the world over to the naked aggression on display by Putin is anti-American claptrap. You sound just like an American hating leftist.


95 posted on 03/17/2014 2:23:11 PM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot (USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Better dead than Red. Putin = Hitler 2014)
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To: Red White and Blue patriot

Spare me your ignorance of history. Also, spare the rest of us your misplaced hyperpatriotism.

I find it odd that so recent a signup such as yourself has put himself at odds with so many of us. One might think, combined with your proven lack of knowledge on how the world actually works and has worked for a while now, they you are yet another Lib toll.


96 posted on 03/17/2014 2:29:14 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: NFHale

Very deeply missed, each and every day. We were lucky beyond belief to have had him.


97 posted on 03/17/2014 4:42:37 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: bobby.223

We were blessed.


98 posted on 03/17/2014 4:43:13 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

He was an amazing, thoroughly, and truly American.


99 posted on 03/17/2014 5:15:33 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

He was a mensch.


100 posted on 03/17/2014 5:19:55 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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