Ukrainians and the whole world have now observed the second reappearance of the “Mezhyhirsky butcher” following his escape.
This historical “glitch” ruled the largest state in Europe for more than four years. Even one month ago, people were afraid to say his name aloud, he was persecuting the opposition, giving orders to spy on journalists from “Ukrainska Pravda”, and there were queues of oligarchs in his reception office waiting to express their respect.
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By Alyona Yakhno
March 9, 2014
Translated by Olya Lutska for Voices of Ukraine
Edited by Voices of Ukraine
Source: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1414033538852248&id=635416686497814
Dear friends! Yesterday I received an invitation in my e-mail. They invited me to the Crimea referendum as an observer!!!!
Here is an excerpt from the invitation: “Igor, maybe someone you know wants to come? We have received a request from the State Duma [Russian Parliament] to invite our fellow Russians living in Europe to participate as international observers in the Crimean referendum on 16 March 2014. Travel, accommodations and all other expenses will be covered. We kindly ask you to respond by tomorrow morning whether you or other members from your organization will be able to participate in this honorable mission? There are no restrictions on the number of participants: we make a list of the candidates, and the Duma reviews it and approves the final lineup. It is highly desirable for the observers to have an EU citizenship. The expected length of stay in Crimea is 2 days, March 16-17. Bulk tickets will be purchased in Moscow and sent out electronically.”
Dear friends, please pay attention to the fact that FELLOW CITIZENS are being invited! Specifically, EU passport holders. Therefore, Russia would report the presence of European observers for the record, but obviously these “Europeans” will draw their conclusions and express their opinions as fellow citizens, as Russians. What independent observers is it therefore possible to talk about? An illegitimate referendum with false observers! How is it possible to allow this arbitrariness? How can this message be conveyed to the world community? I think that these “observers” are invited not only from Finland, but from other European countries as well. It turns out that not only Russian TV channels are engaged in fraud and lies, but there are also those in Finland who do not want the truth and who want to distort reality! In my opinion, it is unacceptable!
Meine Heimat die Sowjetunion war nicht nur eine totalitäre Diktatur sondern auch ein freiwilliger Zusammenschluss viele Völker, die friedlich und solidarisch mit einander leben sollten. Dem kleinen Kind hat es gut gefallen. Wie echt dieses Bündnis war, wusste er nicht.
1991 fiel das Bündnis auseinander. Na wartet ihr, Verräter! dachte der kleine Junge, inzwischen erwachsen und Präsident geworden. Wir werden wieder Freunde sein oder ich zeige Euch, was eine Harke ist. Wir fangen mit der Krim an.
In der Tat schaffte er es, dass sich alle endgültig zerstritten haben. Verwandte, Freunde, Arbeitskollegen. Arbeiter und Bauern, Denker und Dichter, die ganze Welt. Manche Barrikaden gingen durch die Küchen, Mann dafür, Frau dagegen.
Ein Teil der Gesellschaft schämt sich, ein Teil platzt vor Stolz und kann vor Patriotismus kaum laufen. Die Mehrheit findet es schon schön, das Land wird größer, Krim gehört uns.
Iryna from Crimea
March 10, 2014 Facebook status
Translated by Olya Krolya for Voices of Ukraine
Edited by Voices of Ukraine
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=217165405157247&set=a.107200302820425.1073741825.100005913668190&type=1
WRITTEN BY IRYNA… FROM CRIMEA
I will try to explain the current situation in Crimea.
This is my personal opinion, and there are reeeeeally many of those who disagree.
Although at a first glance everything looks very calm…
Currently, the population of the peninsula is divided into two camps: there are those who, with wide opened eyes, shout “Russia-Russia,” as if they were zombified, and those (unfortunately, even though a lot, but they are still fewer) who very well understand what this euphoria will lead to.
Opinions have divided to the extent that relatives and loved ones within one family do not understand and do not hear each other, and this in turn means that we have one foot already entered into a civil war, brother against brother, and the last straw will start respectively – with the dishonest referendum in Crimea, initiated by the Kremlin.
Crimea will immediately have 30-40 percent of those who disagree, which will trigger the upsurge of resentment, and to suppress the protesters will be simple: the Russian army has been deployed, there are plenty of Cossacks and other scum thug-“enforcers” (kind of called “people’s self-defense”), vigilante neighborhood guards, Berkut, and other radicals – volunteers who joined the ranks of the Russian army, took an oath, and were already handed a weapon.
Next step: since the forces are unequal, a part of those who are dissatisfied will be forced to leave Crimea, and the rest will start an endless guerrilla war.
We already start experiencing the so-called Russian, underdeveloped democracy:
• Ukrainian TV channels are disabled and instead there are Russian deceitful TV shows and news reports.
• All Ukrainian military bases are blockaded by Russian soldiers, who don’t allow you to bring food, medicine, personal hygiene products to our soldiers, and if the relatives try to pass something to them, they are beaten by self-declared representatives of the self-declared authorities. They also turn off electricity and water supply to our military bases.
• The journalists are beaten and their equipment is taken away from them. Strategic facilities are being undermined.
And this us just the beginning…
And, of course, the presence of nuclear weapons – that is the main goal of Russia, who spits on the population that believes in it, and hopes for it, as if it were manna from heaven.
It is beyond doubt that this week, before March 16th, Ukraine will sign an Association Agreement with Europe and perhaps will join NATO, and then the capturing of Ukrainian territory will look like a completely different sauce, although Western politicians say that Vladimir Putin has lost his connection with reality and nothing is going to stop him.
These days, I tell all my acquaintances – change your mind, it is not too late yet. You can never expect any good from a country that has a whole Mendeleev’s table, enormous resources, but 90 per cent of the population lives in poverty, where the Foreign Minister is lying, the Defense Minister is lying, and the President of a great nuclear power lies. But perhaps everyone thinks I am out of my mind…
So that’s the kind of stuff going on in Crimea…
Quelle: https://www.facebook.com/andreas.umland.1/posts/10202407089832056
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION WORLD-WIDE?
For all those who think that Ukraine, Crimea and Russia are far away countries:
In 1994, the US, Britain and Russia officially announced, in the so-called Budapest Memorandum, that they are guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty and integrity in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons. Back then, Ukraine had the world’s third largest nuclear weapons arsenal – larger than that of China, Britain and France combined.
If next week this guarantee becomes null and void, few new or aspiring nuclear powers will let themselves be persuaded to give away their nuclear weapons. Iran, Pakistan, North Korea…: Why should they ever give up their atomic bombs or weapons programs?
Ukraine’s example will teach them a lesson: Just in case, get and keep the bomb! Any memoranda, treaties, agreements… that one may get in exchange for not building or purchasing weapons of mass destruction are just pieces of paper. To be fully sovereign, one needs the bomb. Guarantees are useless.
(Note, by the way, that Russia – the prime violator of the Budapest Memorandum – is also the official nuclear power which is geographically closest to the new and aspiring nuclear powers. Good luck, Russia!)
