[MarMema]

And where were you on Abkhazia for that matter? Russia has a long history of annexing parts of other countries. Oh well. No one seemed to care until Crimea.

The protest leadership (to the extent that it exists) consists of three opposition parties in parliament – one of which, the Svoboda party, is clearly on the far right. Svoboda, which captured 38 seats and 10 percent of the vote in the last parliamentary elections, until 2004 called itself the Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine and employed neo-Nazi and SS symbols. While the party changed its name and symbols in 2004, Svoboda’s leader, Oleh Tyahnybok, continued to argue that the opposition should fight the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia running Ukraine” and praised the Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA) in World War II for fighting “against the Moskali [Muscovites], Germans, Zhydy [Jews] and other scum, who wanted to take away our Ukrainian state.”

Speaking of WW2, just wanted to say I have no interest in supporting neo-nazis either.

[C. Edmund Wright]

That’s totally foolishly absurd……remember Afghanistan?