 Advice for Igor, plastered on Novorossiya HQ, Donetsk following the shootdown of MH17 |
Posted on 01/20/2016 1:28:03 AM PST by WhiskeyX
For most of his 42-minute appearance on a radio talk show, former Russia-backed separatist commander Igor Girkin sounded like nothing more than a fanatic discussing a dream now widely dismissed as fantasy.
He spoke of hopes for the creation of a "Novorossia" -- a New Russia stretching across much of Ukraine, from Kharkiv to Odesa, and one day joining a Russian empire including all of Belarus and Ukraine.
It wasn't until the last minute that the interview with Girkin went from surreal to chilling.
Referring to his time commanding separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk in 2014, a host asks him how he stopped the rampant looting.
"With executions," Girkin said matter-of-factly.
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Advice for Igor, plastered on Novorossiya HQ, Donetsk following the shootdown of MH17 |
"You can discuss for a long time how much blood and where Stalin spilled it, but at least you can confidently say that he did it not for himself but for the sake of an idea," [Girkin] said.
And the FRussians fawned . . . .
Manifest Destiny.
How so?
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