This has been floating around in the ether all day, but this is the first English Language article I've seen.
While I can't support anything the "Communist Party" stands for, they are the legitimate elected reps for their areas, and this just adds even more fuel to the Russian Media memes out there about who is really in control in Kiev.
The regime is moving to silence all dissent, and also declared "Marshal Law Lite" today. Let the "Piano voting" commence!
The Communists all over the world have been supporting Moscow. They should be banned here too, including politicians with links to the KGB, though you'd have to go underground too, tcrlaf.
I’m surprised they didn’t round them all up and shoot them in 1991.
Meanwhile, in the afro-soebarkah dictatorship of Obama and the activist courts, the communist party is doing just fine. They’re called Democrats!
Correction:
The Communist Member of the Rada was named V.M. Kovshun.
He was arrested and tortured to death by Kiev’s National Guard, not the police.
as if most of us would believe anything from the Kremlin
When in Rome........
Tactically and politically, you have to do some suppression. If it gets out of hand, it could be a problem but we have to wait and see.
What I am saying is, that if this had happened in the US and we had fractious parties in Congress or even groups like the Black Caucus. They would be likely suppressed until order is restored in the country. We might even institute martial law as well as wide open detainment policies.
It seems to me, that a number of you seem to have knee jerk reactions to every action taken by the Ukraine government. At least it seems so to me.
I would ask you to consider what I have said. We would act no differently if it happened to the US.
And it might......
As I read the article, a Rada committee (?) simply “amended a rule” to allow the banishment of ... a party?
Gee, that’s pretty much what our socialists have done/are doing here, isn’t it?
And if the commies are elected representatives, well, that does complicate things, to be sure, aaarrrgggh
So the commies go home, tell their people “Hey, we tried!” and everyone in those area starts cleaning the cosmoline off Pa’s old double-barrel Saiga.
Apparently the "liberal and progressive" communists are a-hols there just as much as our "liberal and progressive" communists (democrats) are here.
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Now, if only we could do that in Congress, the executive branch and the court system.
Expel all Russians from Ukraine and all will be solved. You know your boy Putin speaks of the great achievements of Soviet Communism, and that Svoboda is not running Ukraine.
“being duly elected by the people” is hardly a ringing endorsement. Lest we forget, Hamas was ELECTED to lead Gaza. Nazis were winning elections BEFORE Hitler seized the Chancellorship.
There’s freedom of speech and rights of assembly, and then there’s being realistic and truthful about a party that represents murder, thievery on a national scale, and economic disaster.
There’s a reason that former Confederate officers and representatives were banned from running for office immediately after the Civil War.
~...First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me....
Martin Niemöller~
Good. The Ukrainians should ban the Party of Regions and the Communist Party and desovietify their country.
How about the Nazi Party. Have they been kicked out?
...too bad we can’t do the same to the Communist Party in the United States (which, by any measure, is less patriotic to this country than the communists over there are to their country).
BREAKING: Ukrainian PM, Cabinet resign “after collapse of the coalition.” http://cnn.it/1tFK2Zm