Ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry demanded that Moscow cancel the proposed naval parade on 11 May in Sevastopol to mark the 225th anniversary of the foundation of the Black Sea Fleet. The document was forwarded to the Russian Foreign Ministry. It said that a parade of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and a demonstration of military hardware are unacceptable for to the Ukrainian government. Moscow was asked to introduce corrections into the programme of the coming festivities and to concur with Ukrainian central executive bodies. Representatives of the Russian Black Sea Fleet said they have set the conditions of the forthcoming parade with the local authorities. Russian sailors were assured, that despite all this, that the festivities to mark the 225th anniversary of the Black Sea Fleet would be held on schedule on 11 May.
7 May 2008
http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=26716&cid=45&p=07.05.2008 (in English)
Voice of Russia World Service
Editor’s Note:
The Ukrainian government is going to get nowhere with its demands. For all intents and purposes, Russia does not recognise the Ukraine as a fully-independent state, and the sad shape of its economy and government justify that stance. The parade shall be held, precisely as Russia planned it. Quite frankly, Uniate Galicians should keep their silence. Most Ukrainians are pro-Russian (in fact, 45 percent of the “Ukrainian” population is Great Russian), and if unrepresentative voices from the far west of the country complain, let them join Poland.
That is totally untrue that most Ukrainians are pro-Russian. It is true that they are not anti-Russian, unlike 21% of Russians recentlay polled who consider Ukraine an “enemy”. Some 40% of the country is Russian speaking, placed in Ukraine by Slain to try to Russify Ukraine. Many of them live on land and in houses taken from deported Tatari or appropriated from homes abandoned after their families were starved in the Holodomor. The Ukrainian population is a noble and forgiving people, and it’s unfortunate that the Russians can’t respond in kind.
Stop listening to Galician Uniate lies. Little Russians voluntarily joined Russia in the 17th century to throw off the hated Polish Catholic yoke and destroy the Uniate snakes.
The Russian population in the Ukraine is a combination of two factors. One is Great Russians brought in as skilled workmen and managers (Little Russians mostly lacked education and training), and these started coming in the 18th century (not under Stalin!) Ho, ho! I knew the Uniates are bald-faced liars, but, this is priceless!. For instance the famous Russian artist Ilya Repin was born in Kharkov guberniya to a Great Russian family in 1844, which I believe predates Stalin by quite a bit.
The other is that Little Russians who moved to the cities abandoned the Little Russian peasant dialect (mistakenly called the “Ukrainian” language by some) in favour of standard Russian, which was richer in words concerning business, industry, commerce, culture, and science.
Many cities such as Yekaterinoslav, Odessa, Sevastopol, Nikolaiev, Yuzovka, and Dnepropetrovsk were new foundations in the tssarist period, and these cities are RUSSIAN cities. The present boundaries of the Ukraine were drawn by Stalin, and many Russian-inhabited regions were included in it to mollify his Ukrainian political cronies (the Little Russian ethnographic area is much smaller).
The “Holodomyr” is a fable, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn pointed up recently. What happened was the disruptions that occurred during collectivisation, the losses were suffered throughout Russia. It was not equivalent to the Holocaust, as some Galician Uniates try to say. No serious non-Ukrainian scholars use the term, so, you should not either. Did your Uniate friends tell you about the Hapsburg concentration camp at Tellerhof in World War I where Orthodox Christians were murdered for their faith? I’ll bet that they are silent about the murder of 600,000 Serbian Orthodox by the Ustashi in Croatia during World War II as well!
The Ukrainians are not a “noble and forgiving people” as you say. Most are pro-Russian and wish for the return of the Russian rule, and the minority remaining (only some 11% of the total) are pushy and lying Galician Uniates who should be sent back to their Carpathian backwater and reincorporated into Poland.
RUSSIA AND THE UKRAINE… TOGETHER FOREVER!
Vara