bhramos
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Can this medal, as an example. I am not a fan Lyashko. I don't know what is going on in your mind, but all Russian citizens suddenly realized that Ukraine is living only, the Nazis and the Donbass fighting against fascism. My grandfather had the order of the Red Star, he lost a leg at Kursk, For me, the holiday May 9, more important then Day Birthday, but in the eyes of the average Russian man I still fascist.
Ukro-Nazis, Baltic, Polish, US, Danish mercenaries, regular armed forces personnel, and regular conscripts alike.Ok, maybe a noobish Q here. Who exactly is fighting the novorussian guys primarily?? Only the neo-nazi militia?? What about the regular army of ukraine??
I give credit to you for nicely reasoning out the situation, and I think your method of reasoning is credible. Good post so far.This whole issue of "Nazis" is quite interesting. In order to understand it, you should look a little bit to the past. When Germany attacked Soviet Union 1941, it was lest than two decades after the Russian civil war between communists and czarist/ democratics "reds" and "whites". Also it was less than 10 years after famine in Ukraine which killed millions and was the consequence of Stalins politics.
In 1941 there was a lot of people in Ukraine who saw Germans as liberators, and wanted to fight russians with Germans, a lot of Ukrainians and Baltic countries men joined Waffen SS because they were nationalists wanting to liberate their countires from Communism/Russians. They were not supporters of German politics. Of course there are exceptions, especially a lot of anti-semitism was supported by some of those forces.
After Germany lost the war, Soviets accused all Nationalists to being nazis and German supporters. That is what winners do, no matter what the country or conflict. Also now this nazi-card is used in Baltics also, all those who wanted free and democratic Estonia and fought in German army are labeled nazis by Russian supporters and Russian government also uses this method, when it sees it appropriate.
One interesting thing is that also a finnish batallion fought in Waffen SS in Ukraine 1942-44. They were returned to Finland after their contract of 2 years and the batallion was embedded to finnish army. That is because Finland was not in pact with Germany politically, but militarily very much so.
After the war finnish SS men were not charged, they have their own memorial in Helsinki and there is no stigma in them in Finland. Also Russia has not used this "nazi card" in Finland, although I am sure that it is in their arsenal if the need arises.
This part, I think loses it, because, it displays the inherent bias (nothing wrong with that) in drawing a conclusion. From my biased PoV, I could see parts of Ukraine trying to break away from the sphere of influence of NATO, and its puppets.Summa summarun, Ukrainian civil war should be called Ukrainian war of independence, current conflict is just continuation of countries breaking away from Russian sphere of influence that has been going on since the fall of the Soviet Union.
People should be able to separate nationalism from Nazi-propaganda largely formuted and supported from Moscow as a part of the conflict to secure Russian interests.
yiap.. excactlySweden and Finland future NATO puppets
Eurasian Union puppets
i don't read russian or ukrainian , i don't even know what is written on that pictureCan this medal, as an example. I am not a fan Lyashko. I don't know what is going on in your mind, but all Russian citizens suddenly realized that Ukraine is living only, the Nazis and the Donbass fighting against fascism. My grandfather had the order of the Red Star, he lost a leg at Kursk, For me, the holiday May 9, more important then Day Birthday, but in the eyes of the average Russian man I still fascist.
This is not trueQuote Originally Posted by Akim View Post
Can this medal, as an example. I am not a fan Lyashko. I don't know what is going on in your mind, but all Russian citizens suddenly realized that Ukraine is living only, the Nazis and the Donbass fighting against fascism. My grandfather had the order of the Red Star, he lost a leg at Kursk, For me, the holiday May 9, more important then Day Birthday, but in the eyes of the average Russian man I still fascist.
The medal is a jar of vaseline.i don't read russian or ukrainian , i don't even know what is written on that picture
Over the recent days bad economic news have been pouring in for Russia: the prices of bread, cheese, medicine, meats and many other product have been going up, some of them sharply. At the same time, the Ruble has reached a new low against the Dollar which forced the Russian Central Bank to intervene to defend the Ruble.
No doubt, Obama would say that the sanctions are showing their effectiveness. Except for one problem: no economist has been able to directly link the US/EU sanctions with what we are observing. In fact, the reality is much simpler.
In the case of commodity prices what is happening is much simple: Russian companies have seized the opportunity presented by these sanctions to sharply raise their prices and make an extra profit. So far, so good. That was predictable. In fact, the Russian government and Putin himself had predicted that and they had warned that the state would be closely monitoring any such price increases and that legal action would be taken against any speculators. This is where things become interesting.
The person in charge of this monitoring is Arkadii Dvorkovich, Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet has dismissed it all saying that when he goes shopping for bread he does not notice any price increases. So who is this Dvorkovich character anyway?
Arkadii Dvorkovich
Turns out that he is a pure product of the Atlantic Integrationist clan. Himself a rather modest oligarch (his official personal income in 2011 was only 4 millon Rubles), he is married to a much bigger oligarch, Zumrud Khandadashevna Rustamova, who, according to the Russian Wikipedia, is a member of the board of directors of major companies like the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Kombinat, the gold mining Polius Zoloto, or the main Moscow airport Sheremetevo. Her official yearly income is already a healthier 42 million Rubles. Dvorkovich, who attended Duke University in the USA, is also involved in all sort of more or less shady companies and deals including the infamous Skolkovo project.
In fact, I would argue that Dvorkovich is so typical of the Atlantic Integrationists that he could be their poster boy. By sabotaging the Kremlin's efforts to prevent Russian businesses to profit from the sanctions, Dvorkovich not only stands to get some terrific kickbacks, but he also contributes to the 5th columns efforts into convincing the general public that western sanctions are crippling Russia.
The good news is that the Eurasian Sovereignists are fighting back and that several Russian TV channels have already reported about these abnormal price increases and about the fact that Dvorkovich seems to be doing exactly nothing about it.
Over and over again we observe the same phenomenon: the President order the Prime Minister and his government to do something, and the latter just ignore him. This is a typical example of how the 5th column works in Russia and, in the future, I plan to provide more examples of this here.