We’re NOT slaves! The people of the Crimea didn’t want to be slaves of the Kiev junta (after all, not only did the junta slash pensions, it didn’t pay soldiers, police, teachers, and doctors).
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Firstly, let’s get one thing straight. One reason for the lopsided vote to reunify the Crimea with its Russian motherland is quite mundane. Once the Crimea returns to the Rodina, its people will see an immediate 250 percent growth in their pay packets. This is something that everyone knew and could appreciate. You see, as bad as corruption is in Russia (and it’s quite bad, but it’s not as bad as police/drug lord corruption and congressional/oligarch corruption in the USA, which is the world standard for boodle and official theft), it’s not as bad as in the Ukraine. Indeed, Russians do live better than Ukrainians do… that’s why many Ukrainians work in Russia (the opposite doesn’t happen at all… there’s nothing in the Ukraine to attract any reasonable person). Therefore, the first question to ask is, “Are the members of the Timoshenko junta honest people or are they tired faces from the same old corrupt oligarch crowd?” All of the members of the junta were in politics before (save for Klichko, a clueless newbie… that may cost him his life before it’s all over)… they’re all proven crooks. Yatsenyuk lived the closest to Yanukovich… 100 metres away. That is, the people of the Crimea saw nothing but privation (at best) under the junta… they saw a modest living under Russia. Being sane people, they chose the latter. All normal people would make such a choice.
The referendum saw an 83 percent turnout…the rest were boycotting the election. Let’s count them as “no” votes, and count the invalid ballots as the same. By the most generous calculation, the people who opposed reunion with Russia were 21 percent. That means that 79 percent of the people wanted reunion… that’s still a blowout and massive landslide. In other words, for every person who wanted to live under the junta, four wanted to rejoin Russia. Now, mind you, we don’t know that all abstainers are against rejoining the Rodina, we’re just assuming that for the sake of argument. If one believes in democracy and in the freedom of people to choose their own destiny, this case is clear. Nearly 80 percent of the people want to be Russian… that means that everyone else should shut up and let them be. After all, they didn’t throw bombs (like the junta did)… they didn’t kill innocents (like the junta did)… they didn’t seize power in a lawless putsch (like the junta did). A duly elected legislature set up a well-ordered referendum in which the majority made a choice. The rest of world should respect that choice.
Another facet to this is a religious reason (this isn’t theological… it’s sociological and historical). The junta is playing the “religious freedom” card to win sympathy in the USA. Let’s look at the situation before 1991. Before that date, there was really only one Church in contention, only one Church with a real local following… that was the Patriarchate of Moscow and all the Russias, the “Russian Orthodox Church”. All of the other groups (save for some miniscule Baptist groups) are post-1991 carpetbaggers. The so-called “Kiev Patriarchate” didn’t even exist… that’s a renegade body not recognised by ANY legitimate Eastern or Oriental Orthodox Church. The Uniates didn’t exist in the Crimea either, as Uniatism wasn’t allowed in the old Empire except in the lands of the Polish partition (and then only until 1830)… Crimea wasn’t part of the Partition lands, it was part of Novorossiya, that meant that it couldn’t have any Uniate presence (and it didn’t, until the Second Time of Troubles, after 1991). That also means that it isn’t part of the Ukraine… properly speaking, no one can call any land east of the Dnepr or in the southern seacoast littoral “Ukrainian”. There’s much bullshit circulating in Catholic and Evangelical circles… I’d tell you to steer clear of it (especially, as those who issue it are Hard Right fanatics in the main).
There wasn’t a “Russian invasion” of the Crimea. Firstly, any troop movements would have to pass over the Kerch Straits… there are no direct land connections from the Crimea to the Kuban (the closest Russian territory). No such movements occurred… nobody saw any… no satellite saw such… no spy reported such… for no such “invasion” happened. It was all a sick fantasy in the minds of Victoria Nuland, John Kerry, John Herbst, et al… the Easter Bunny has more reality than their fevered hallucinations. There were also no air movements of troops… such an “air bridge” would be noticeable and the USA would’ve paraded such. In short, there aren’t 80,000 Russian troops in the Crimea… there are 25,000 servicemen based there permanently. By the way, most of the Crimean Opolchenie are former Ukrainian soldiers who came over to the patriot side. The junta hasn’t paid the troops nor has it shipped sufficient provisions to them. The junta is in an extreme state of fantasy… it issues orders to phantom troops… it orders phantom mobilisations… it shitcans professional military commanders and replaces them with politically reliable hacks… it appoints “commissars” to the army. All of this adds up to a situation that’s completely FUBAR and Tango-Foxtrot-Uniform. In short, the junta’s bleats have little, if any, basis.
All of the above adds up to one thing. All normal people voted for Russia. They wanted a modest living, with no interference from Galician Uniate stormtroopers… they wanted to speak their own Russian language, not a backwoods dialect that wasn’t theirs. They wanted to be part of their Russian motherland… they didn’t want to be part of a “Ukrainian” state (and they’ve made that clear ever since 1991). If the minority doesn’t want to live in Russia, no one’s forcing them to stay. They’re free to leave… but watch ’em all stay… they’ll all take Russia’s money. After all, “independence” doesn’t put bread on the table, does it?
BMD
Voices from Russia 
Ukrainian Junta to Seize Privately-Held Weapons… American Republicans Slobber Over Them… What’s Wrong with that Picture?
Tags: Babi Yar, Crimea, Kiev, MVDU, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, Ukraine
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On Sunday, 16 March, the MVDU and SBU posted demands on their websites ordering that all citizens immediately surrender “unregistered” weapons. Junta “Interior Minister” Arseny Avakov and SBU chieftain Valentin Nalivaichenko demanded “the surrender of illegal weapons because of the emergency sociopolitical situation in the country, the worsening crime situation, and systemic provocations on the part of foreign citizens in the Crimea and in the Southeastern Ukraine” {sounds a lot like how the Euromaidan thugs grabbed power… they don’t like it when a more competent party turns the tables on them: editor}. Both agencies emphasised that the requirement applies to all, regardless of political affiliation and participation in lawful social groups. They ordered the police ordered to immediately start searching for illegal weapons, to get them out of circulation, and hold all those who refuse to hand over their arms liable under the law.
Avakov and Nalivaichenko claimed, “We must immediately stop the violence in our streets and protect the lives and health of our people”. They added that they knew that all “true patriots” would understand and support them. On 15 March, Konstantin Dolgov, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called on the Ukraine to mount a “massive effort” against extremists. He also emphasised that they should outlaw “Banderovtsy” for inciting ethnic hatred. In early March, the MVDU announced that citizens who voluntarily surrender illegal firearms until 21 March would be exempt from criminal liability. In addition, the ministry urged the police to find the ammunition, explosives, and special equipment confiscated from security forces during the Kiev riots.
16 March 2014
Lenta.ru
http://lenta.ru/news/2014/03/16/noweapons/
Editor:
The junta wants to confiscate guns. The US Republican Party slobbers over the junta. Someone better tell the NRA! Y’ see, if they support gun confiscation in the Ukraine, they’ll support it here, too, if we gave ’em a chance. Ain’t hypocrisy grand? Perhaps, the NRA oughta reconsider its political strategy! Pass the jug… the world hasn’t gotten any less wacky in the last 24…
In any case, to be fair, I’d observe that they’d only confiscate some guns… they’ll take guns from ethnic Russians and give them to Galician Svoboda stormtroopers. Don’t forget… their grandpas willingly helped the Nazis at Babi Yar… the apple sure didn’t fall far from the tree, did it?
BMD