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881  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: May 04, 2015, 10:27:43 AM
Shelling of residential areas of Donetsk by ukro-nazis happens every day now. The chief of OCSE expressed his concern with the escalating number of "cease-fire" violations. In non-diplomatic speeach it means that the situation got completely out of hand.

http://tass.ru/en/world/792923

And on topic of the above, I want to quote a large fragment of Lada Ray's report:
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/does-chernobyl-fire-threaten-a-new-nuclear-disaster/

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Today, DNR reported that an unusually well-equipped group of what looked like Western special forces armed with non-Kalashnikov, Western made rifles, began an armed shootout with a group of ukro-nazis They killed 4 and loaded the remaining 7 into a Volkswagen van. After that, they left the area and the shelling of Donetsk had stopped. DNR intelligence reports that the intervention was executed by non-Ukrainians, possibly NATO or private contractor from the EU. These people were equipped with GPS-powered radios and other Western equipment. There are reports of the right sector and nazi battalion members being disarmed and hunted down in Dnepropetrovsk after Kolomoysky’s demise.

What does all this mean? This means that the EU is serious about enforcing Minsk 2 agreements. It is interesting that the US, at least Obama personally, is on the same page. The scenario is playing out exactly as I predicted in my early article about striking parallels between the Georgia 2008 war and Ukraine 2014-15. Just like in the case of Georgia, US and EU first yell a lot and threaten to punish Russia. After a while though they realize that certain deals in world affairs are impossible without Russia. This concerns, among other things, Iran negotiations and the Yemen conflict. It also turns out they can’t deal with Ukraine without Russia either, as hinted by various EU and German officials.

Another thing that scares EU are the unruly nazis running around with guns. This is a danger not only for Ukraine itself, but for Europe as well. And they are right.

The EU reps told the following to Poroshenko in Kiev: ‘make sure Minsk cease-fire is observed. Don’t break the peace so not to give the chance to the Russian propaganda to malign us (with truth, apparently -LR). Also don’t you dare attack Donbass so not to give the opportunity for the Russian separatists to counter-attack.

They are right to warn Poroshenko to behave. Head of DNR Zakharchenko warned that if Kiev breaks the truce and attacks again, there will be no Minsk 3. “This time, we won’t stop in Kiev; we’ll keep going,” said Zakharchenko.

There is a real deal hunt for ukro-nazi militants all over Ukraine. This is undoubtedly sanctioned by the US and EU. In fact, in the Kiev euro-maidan coup both the peaceful protesters and vicious ukro-nazis were simply convenient patsies. They were needed to overturn Yanukovich and establish the dictate of the West in Kiev. Now they outlived their usefulness. They either have to fall in line or disappear.

This repeats exactly the events of the 1930s in Germany. After coming to power, Hitler organized the ‘night of the long knives,’ eliminating his buddy Rem and his well-trained militants, first having used them for his purposes. If course Rem was getting out of hand threatening Hitler with his militants. Today, ukro-nazis also dare to threaten Kiev with turning their weapons on them, attempting at one point to storm president’s administration. Really, they never learn!

The power in Kiev doesn’t belong to Poroshenko or Central Rada. The power in Kiev is concentrated in a different set of hands and in a different building. That’s why they can never succeed – the new maidan won’t be allowed by the puppet masters. And if they refuse to fall in line, they’ll never survive. As mentioned above, the entire spread is revealed in EARTH SHIFT REPORT: OLIGARCH WARS.

And this:

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There is persistent talk of a potential catastrophe on one of Ukraine’s functioning nuclear stations. Rumors of that are ongoing since last year. The good news is: the fact that so many people talk about it may have prevented such false flag.

Another thing actively circulated is that the Kiev army is amassing forces to attack Donbass. The only question is when. DNR army spokesperson Eduard Basurin reported that DNR intelligence expects provocations involving heavy shelling on May 8th and 9th, to be blamed by Ukraine on DNR and LNR.

What I want to stress is: people talking and yelling about it does help prevent provocations and false flags.
There is ‘operation Glasnost’ underway. The goal is to make public and distribute in social media all the information that becomes available, thus taking away the real weapon of those who lie and manipulate. They can only succeed if the other side is silent. The more truth and warnings are pre-emptively released, the harder it is to execute false flags and perpetuate lies and hoaxes.
882  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Capitalism vs Communism on: May 04, 2015, 10:03:32 AM
Cons of the Communism society:

Contrary to popular belief , the " survival Of the fittest" is not on Capitalism, its on Communism.

Money is often used to hide lack of intelligence, creativity or just pshysical or mental qualities..

In the Communism society from above, the talent will be rewarded not with money but with visible "titles" or "rewards" to continúe the human progression, those rewards will worth more than actual money because today money can be gotten from many sources not only "success", it can be given even for free.

So with this rewards, the people that is just "stupid" or below average will be more visible, stupid people could expect some kind of social bullyng or exclusión from various activities.

We have tried something like this but it didn't work. Humans by nature want more, and better stuff. (Stuff can be literally anything from knowledge to money.) You can call it greed if you want. If you suppress this kind of greed then you will get only stagnation. I've seen it in the last decade of socialism, ppl wasn't motivated at all, everybody thought why do anything above the acceptable minimum if they can't get anything more or better just stupid titles and worthless badges. Finally this lack of motivation paralysed the whole society what collapsed pretty soon.

Actually, what was tried in Hungary or USSR was not a Communism, and not even a Socialism. It was in fact Capitalism covered by a fig-leaf of Socialism, where there was only one monopolist corporation on the market - the State. You can see the same symptoms of lack of motivation, token acknowledgement and stagnation in other big monopolies.

I mean, back like 30-40 years ago communism was seen as the antidote for capitalistic greed and the communists believed that their system would produce more wealth and distribute it more equally, and cure social problems including environmental degradation, which is a major problem even in today's world.

Capitalism or communism are just mirrors of the mindset of the humans that comprise a society. You can't build one or the other as long as the majority of the people don't subscribe to it. As long as someone is prepared to grab more and more at the expense of the others, you'll have Capitalism. Once people naturally start feeling compelled to help others, to contribute to the society, giving to it - you'll have Communism.

Reminds me of this quote...
"Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have as much.' "
–Phelps Adams

I disagree with this quote. A communist would say: "All men should come together and build such fine houses for each other in cooperation."

EDIT: And a capitalist would say: "If I hire those 20 vagrants for the minimal wage and outsource construction material factory to the dirt-cheap Elbonia, I'll build an even grander house at half the price".

You can quote me on this. Smiley

And, Phelps Adams has actually swapped labels.
883  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Happy May Day! Communism Killed 94 Million In The 20th Century! on: May 03, 2015, 09:40:32 PM
According to a disturbingly pleasant graphic from Information is Beautiful entitled simply 20th Century Death, communism was the leading ideological cause of death between 1900 and 2000. The 94 million that perished in China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe easily (and tragically) trump the 28 million that died under fascist regimes during the same period.

Infographics brought to you by your friendly capitalist. Please look the other way while we plunder yet another country not so near you, killing its population in the name of increasing our capital under the fig-leaf cover of "bringing democracy".

When the more virulent form of oligarchic capitalism was brought into Russia, resulting in the "Wild 90s", it resulted in millions of deaths only in that decade alone.

DEATHS CAUSED BY CAPITALISM:

369 million (369,790,731), according only to the statistics I could get sources for. This number doesn’t even scratch the surface.

But, guess what? Tomorrow, we know for sure that capitalism will kill at least 77,000 more people.


See more:  http://southern-feminism.tumblr.com/post/95712821699/dont-you-know-communism-has-killed-millions
I always sort through tumblr's many porn pages to get the truth, seeking historical facts first, before any other places. Not from books made out of paper. Not from actual witnesses.  

I am guessing the message I get from your link is: "If capitalism did it, why be sad about communism killing people? Same thing..."

What you are doing here is a classical form of Ad Hominem attack on the source, rather than addressing the material quoted. Beware, here be logical dragons.


I went to that tumblr link. There was a laundry list. I tried to click on each entry for the source... Nothing worked. Plain text.

So a kingdom with kings and queens is a capitalist system. Slave trades of blacks, STILL happening today under (for examples, but not exclusively) mostly muslim countries are based on a capitalist system... Etc... Etc. By that same logic the expansion of the soviet block to enslave all those nations was a capitalistic move.
The tumblr link also states that every morning 77000 people get killed because of capitalism. Not 78015. Not 36981. 77000. Why?


classical form of Ad Hominem attack on the source, rather than addressing the material quoted



Aren't you doing the same with my original post my dear logically puffed dragon?

 Smiley


Actually, no.
When I said "Infographics brought to you by your friendly capitalist. Please look the other way while we plunder yet another country not so near you, killing its population in the name of increasing our capital under the fig-leaf cover of "bringing democracy"."

I addressed the underlying motivation of capitalism there, connecting it to the lack of stat numbers for capitalism in that infographics. I don't mention - as I don't know - the source of where that infographics comes from.

I also gave justification for the distrust of those numbers, using 10 years of Capitalism in Russian in the 90s as an example, which according to various ways of counting resulted in between 1 and 10 million lives lost.

In your last post, you actually also gave a fair justification for your distrust in tumbler-numbers, which is not just "it's a porn site".
884  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Capitalism vs Communism on: May 03, 2015, 09:33:59 PM
The comparison would be interesting, apart from the fact that we don't have any single case where Communist was actually implemented and tried out at a level of a country. Even Socialism, in the few countries that tried it, was far from the spec.

The best example of Communism that I can come up with is Open Source, and it works. For Communism to work, people first need to change to behave selflessly, altruistically, wish to share the results of their work and implicitly know that those around them work with the same motivation. Until that happens, the best model that maps human behaviour of greed is Capitalism.
885  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Happy May Day! Communism Killed 94 Million In The 20th Century! on: May 03, 2015, 12:22:01 PM
In Capitalism we as a citizens have more liberty, maybe we have a big inequality but we have liberty.
In Communism, the governments use what they give to the citizens to control them, the only way Communism can be a good system is like the Spain town where there is some kind of agriculture company, every citizen has a job in there and all of them are paid equal no matter whats the position they have.

And that's the end-goal Communism that was sold to the people of Russia. The thing that was in USSR (or China or N.Korea) was/is not a Communism by a long shot.

A Communist system implies volunteer altruism - you take only as much as you need, you contribute as much as you can. In an ideal Communism you have all the liberty, and the government would be almost non-existent/unnecessary.
886  Other / Politics & Society / The President - Putin - The recent history of Russia (documentary) on: May 03, 2015, 12:11:31 PM
A new documentary was recently released, marking 15 years since Vladimir Putin first came into office. It describes the country he got from Yeltsin - a country falling apart, with dead economy, all major factories closed down (and often physically demolished), destroyed military, and with Islamic terrorism raging in Caucasus. A country, which many world leaders considered to be finished and disintegrating.

The documentary describes the slow and difficult process of bringing the almost dead country back to life, restoring the legal system and reigning in the oligarchs.

Lada Ray wrote a good summary of the documentary here:
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/president-must-see-new-documentary-about-putin/

Full official Russian version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyNcbVuDJyA

A enthusiast translation into English can be found below:

PRESIDENT - Episode 1/8 - War in Chechnya. Way from Prime Minister to Acting President
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c7f_1430284031

PRESIDENT - Episode 2/8 - Elections. President of a country in decay. Tragedy of Kursk submarine
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=517_1430437349

PRESIDENT - Episode 3/8 - Relations between Russia and US. Restoring Russian Economy - Beginning
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=07b_1430592154

PRESIDENT - Episode 4/8 - Developing partnership with EU. Terrorist acts in Russia. Russia stands United
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f20_1430662214

PRESIDENT - Episode 5/8 - Formation of Personality
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e8c_1430759524

PRESIDENT - Episode 6/8 - Putin on the post of Prime Minister during 2008 crisis
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=93e_1430924790

PRESIDENT - Episode 7/8 - Relations with opposition. Bolotnaya protests. Standoff between US and Russia
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e3_1430934131

PRESIDENT - Episode 8/8 - Revival of Russian Army. Putin serves his Country. Peoples faith in the President and Country
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bee_1431009868
887  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Happy May Day! Communism Killed 94 Million In The 20th Century! on: May 03, 2015, 12:01:24 PM
According to a disturbingly pleasant graphic from Information is Beautiful entitled simply 20th Century Death, communism was the leading ideological cause of death between 1900 and 2000. The 94 million that perished in China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe easily (and tragically) trump the 28 million that died under fascist regimes during the same period.

Infographics brought to you by your friendly capitalist. Please look the other way while we plunder yet another country not so near you, killing its population in the name of increasing our capital under the fig-leaf cover of "bringing democracy".

When the more virulent form of oligarchic capitalism was brought into Russia, resulting in the "Wild 90s", it resulted in millions of deaths only in that decade alone.

DEATHS CAUSED BY CAPITALISM:

369 million (369,790,731), according only to the statistics I could get sources for. This number doesn’t even scratch the surface.

But, guess what? Tomorrow, we know for sure that capitalism will kill at least 77,000 more people.


See more:  http://southern-feminism.tumblr.com/post/95712821699/dont-you-know-communism-has-killed-millions
I always sort through tumblr's many porn pages to get the truth, seeking historical facts first, before any other places. Not from books made out of paper. Not from actual witnesses. 

I am guessing the message I get from your link is: "If capitalism did it, why be sad about communism killing people? Same thing..."

What you are doing here is a classical form of Ad Hominem attack on the source, rather than addressing the material quoted. Beware, here be logical dragons.
888  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 70 years after the Victory: Lest We Forget (despite every effort to do so) on: May 03, 2015, 11:51:28 AM
that's your "perception". I'm not mixing anything up. Poland was free and not part of either nazi germany or ussr.
So they were not liberated and I stand by that statement.

No, it's not "my perception", but historic facts, which has become all too fashionable to twist and forget.

Using your twisted kind of logic, Soviet Union was a free country before 1941, so it didn't liberate itself from Nazi German occupation.

Situation changes, and, I re-quote:

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During the Nazi occupation of Poland, it lost 21.4% of its population. During the period of 1939-1945, the country was dismembered: Western region attached to the Third Reich (by sending in two million German immigrants), and in the east there was established General Government of Reichsleiter Hans Frank. Colonists were given the best land and homes, confiscating them from the local residents, with hundreds of thousands being driven out. Poles were considered “Untermensch” second-class nation – they could not even go to the same tram with Aryans. The worst SS concentration camp in human history worked on Polish territory – Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek. The Germans destroyed nearly 40% of the buildings, a third of the population was homeless. Is it better than what happened later?

Nope, definitely nothing for Poland to be liberated from. [/sarcasm] I am sorry millions of Soviet soldiers lost their lives, for their sacrifice to be treated with such arrogance.

EDIT:
Whether Poland was free or not before WWII is a moot point. War was coming to Poland whether it wanted it or not. There were 3 possible outcomes:

1. Soviet Union could have ignored what was happening in the West and let Germany take all of Poland. This would have given Germany a signal that Soviet Union was weak and could be attacked. As USSR was engaged with Japan in the East, it would not be able to fight on two fronts and would have lost. Result for Poland - it would not exist today.

2. Soviet Union could have challenged Germany, declaring it war, when it became apparent that Germany was going to expand Eastwards. It would have been suicidal for USSR. As USSR was engaged with Japan in the East, it would not be able to fight on two fronts and would have lost. Result for Poland - it would not exist today. Incidentally, this is the scenario that was favoured by Washington and London, which were in negotiations with Germany about letting it fight on one front - Eastwards. Result for Poland - it would not exist today.

3. USSR could have tried to delay the start of the war as much as possible and conclude the war with Germany's ally, Japan in Mongolia.  The negotiations should give Germany a feeling that it gains something (a part of Poland), while at the same time give it an impression that USSR is too strong to be attacked right away. This is the scenario that happened. Molotov-Ribbentorp pact achieved just that. USSR beat Japanese and moved several armies to the Western positions. Result for Poland - it had a fighting chance to continue its existence after the war was over.
889  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: May 02, 2015, 04:03:25 PM
I'm not sure it's covered in the Western press, but huge forest fires were raging in the exclusion zone in Chernobyl, raising radioactive particles that were deposited in the forest floor, into the air and spreading it as ash around anew.

Much more about the topic here:
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/does-chernobyl-fire-threaten-a-new-nuclear-disaster/

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...
Who started Chernobyl fire?

So, is the fire an act of god and a karmic return, or is it enacted by humans? As I said, I don’t believe even idiots from the Kiev government are crazy enough to start such fire. But there is someone else in Ukraine who is. For the past several days I have been hearing an interesting story. When I put the two and two together, here is the picture that emerged.

...
890  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Happy May Day! Communism Killed 94 Million In The 20th Century! on: May 02, 2015, 03:15:34 PM
One thing people tend to forget about the May Day - or the International Day of Workers' Solidarity - is that its very existence, as an extension of Soviet Union significantly increased the working standards and wages in the Western countries. Until recently - until Soviet Union got killed off - trade unions worldwide were a force to be reckoned with, giving workers decent wages and decent working conditions and the right to work to begin with.

And the slogan of May Day is not half-bad either:

Peace. Labour. May.

I'm certainly not celebrating this disgusting and irrational ideology of misery and death. There are no individual rights under this system. People exist for the benefit of the state and are expendable to the nth degree.

Then you completely misunderstand May Day. Or are you the one planning to celebrate Capitalism and exploitation of workforce for the minimal wage possible (and no wage at all, if they could get away with it)? A system, where people exist for the benefit of the capitalist and are expendable to the nth degree.

PS: And Soviet Union was never Communist. It never came as far as implementing Communism, and was hardly Socialist despite being called Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. One can even argue that Sweden and Norway managed to come closer to the Socialist model than Soviet Union did.
891  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: May 02, 2015, 03:07:15 PM
It was quiet in the Lugansk Republic yesterday. About 10000 people went to the May Day demonstration in Lugansk under the traditional slogan of "Peace. Labour. May"

Donetsk republic is, on the other hand is being battered by the Ukrainian military. Yesterday Ukrainians shot at DNR over 50 time, killing one soldier of the Republican Army. The targets were Shirokino, Gorlovka, Donetsk Airport.
In Debalcevo, DNR defence were mine-sweeping public buildings. In a report from there, they had to clear the kindergarten from tripwire mines, before starting repairs there. The kindergarten was used as a headquarters by the Nazional Guard, and they destroyed all the furniture, toys and educational material there during their stay. The school in Debalcevo is also half-destroyed.

And Poroshenko made a statement yesterday, "optimistically" saying that he can keep the war going for another 10 years...
892  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Ukraine - The Odessa Massacre - What Really Happened on: May 02, 2015, 03:01:51 PM
Today marks one year since the massacre. Preliminary results:
- Ukrainian coup government blames the people who got burned alive and shot at for their own deaths.
- Some of the perpetrators are now holding high positions in the Ukrainian government and Parliament.
- The murderous neo-nazis from Right Sector who did shooting and burning are now an official part og the Ukrainian military - a division in their Nazional Guard.
893  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: May 01, 2015, 03:14:10 PM
It's funny when the breakaway republic within the state seems more stable than state itself. Welcome to Ukraine, guys. Cheesy

That's because these republics have two essential differences from Ukraine:
1. They are not ruled from Washington.
2. They actually implemented the slogan of the Euro-Maidan: "Away with oligarchs".

On the topic of stability: LNR starts issuing passports to the citizens of the republic.

While in Kiev, on the 1st of May, neo-nazis were attacking the May-day demonstrations. And in addition, Kiev junta warned WWII veterans against trying to show their faces on the streets on the 9th of May!
894  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 70 years after the Victory: Lest We Forget (despite every effort to do so) on: May 01, 2015, 03:05:42 PM
To further elaborate on my previous post, and for those too lazy to read the whole articles, here are some relevant quotes:

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During the Nazi occupation of Poland, it lost 21.4% of its population. During the period of 1939-1945, the country was dismembered: Western region attached to the Third Reich (by sending in two million German immigrants), and in the east there was established General Government of Reichsleiter Hans Frank. Colonists were given the best land and homes, confiscating them from the local residents, with hundreds of thousands being driven out. Poles were considered “Untermensch” second-class nation – they could not even go to the same tram with Aryans. The worst SS concentration camp in human history worked on Polish territory – Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek. The Germans destroyed nearly 40% of the buildings, a third of the population was homeless. Is it better than what happened later?

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Yes, a regime was established for 45 years in Poland, which was not a sweet for us. But nobody destroyed Poles as a nation, their country was an independent state, even under the influence of “big brother” in Moscow. Republic has risen from the ruins in the shortest timespan possible with the Soviet money. But they prefer to simply turn a blind eye on this fact in modern Poland.

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– In 1945 Poland received the cities of Breslau, Gdansk, Zielona Gora, Legnica, Szczecin, – says Maciej Wisniewski, a Polish freelance journalist. – USSR also gave the territory of Bialystok; with the mediation of Stalin, we acquired a disputed with Czechoslovakia city Kłodzko. Nevertheless, they believe here: the partitioning of Poland by the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact, when the Soviet Union took the Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, was unfair, but the transfer by Stalin to Poland of Silesia and Pomerania is absolutely fair, you can not dispute this. It is fashionable to say now that Russians did not liberate, but conquered. However, it turns into an interesting kind of occupation, when Poland got for free a quarter of Germany: and on top of it, hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers shed their blood for this land. Even the GDR resisted, not wanting to give Szczecin to the Poles – the dispute over the city was finally solved only in 1956, under pressure from the USSR.

Also, another example. Famous Polish ship-building industry, which dry docks took contracts from both Soviet Union and Great Britain. Where are they now?

When "Night Wolves" announced their intended memorial motor cross, Polish Foreign Minister Shetina said that it's a provocation. Well, let's dissect this logically. Whom can such a memorial motor cross provoke? Only the neo-nazis (and the handlers of Poland in Washington). Which implies that Shetina expressed a sympathy with neo-nazis. If Poland really wanted to prevent any possible disturbance to the peaceful rally, they could have sent a dozen motorised policemen to accompany the rally to show the presence of the hand of the law. But Shetina decided to side with the dark forces and write himself into the annals of history as an indirect neo-nazi supporter.

Now the saga of the memorial cross "The Roads of Victory" continues. Two groups of bikers managed to get to Europe, presumably by taking planes and then renting bikes upon arrival. One small group laid flowers to the memorial in Budapest, Hungary; the other at Auschwitz, Poland. They plan to unite together with bikers from the "Night Wolves" branches in Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia and continue their planned rally to Berlin.

There is an ironic parallel with the events of 70 years past that they are commemorating. Today, just like then, the road to Berlin is fraught with obstacles and not everyone comes to the end, many symbolically falling along the way to the seemingly nazi-fuelled Euro-bureaucrats.
895  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Crimea on: April 29, 2015, 09:28:01 PM
However, personally I do not think that this is ok to invade the territory of another state in the 21 century as well as to break the teritorrial integrity of a different state. By acting so, Russia has violated international law and has breached the treaties it signed

Where was the international law, when NATO bombed Serbia to sh*t and took away the historical Serbian homeland of Kosovo?

Where was the international law, when George Bush invaded Iraq, and in turn created the ISIS?

Where was the international law, when NATO invaded Libya?

Moreover, Russia exactly observed the international law - the UN charter on self-determination of peoples. Crimea first seceded from Ukraine before reunifying with Russia as a result of referendum, the results of which have been confirmed by several independent Western polls. Each and every step was legal. On the other hand, it is the legality of Crimea's transfer to Ukraine by Khrushov in breech of the Soviet constitution that is void. Oh, and Russian Federation and Ukraine didn't ratify their mutual borders in UN, so the question of where the borders go is still open.

Moreover, by recently passing a law denouncing everything to do with "Soviet tyranny", Ukraine by extension nullifies the creation of Ukraine as a state (splitting it off Russia) by Lenin in 1917, addition to it of the lands of Novorossia by Lenin in 1922, addition of the Western territories by Stalin and addition of Crimea by Hrushov. Wink



Two good news from Crimea:

Domestic transactions of Crimeans' Visa and MasterCard have been rerouted to the National Payment System and are again functioning in Crimea:
http://www.forbes.ru/news/287563-karty-visa-i-mastercard-rossiiskikh-bankov-zarabotali-v-krymu

And, the construction of the bridge over Kerch strait has been started. The first phase, which will last 4 months will be a construction of a technical support bridge. They are now clearing the land on both sides of the strait, as well as the bottom of unexploded ordinance, left from WWII - there were very heavy fights there. So far over 70 items have been found, ranging from bombs through mortars to hand grenades.
896  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 70 years after the Victory: Lest We Forget (despite every effort to do so) on: April 29, 2015, 12:02:54 PM
Polish authorities are going too far in their boot-licking.

As we all know, the only 3 countries that opposed the recent UN resolution against glorification of Nazism are USA, Canada and Ukraine.

Poland didn't have anything against, when fully-armed US troops waltzed over their country.

However, they blocked the Russian bikers, civilians, on their motor-cross "The Roads of Victory", commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany. Not only Polish authorities grill the bikers and journalists - all having valid Schengen visas - for 6 hours at the border, they failed to give any plausible reason for the refusal to enter the country. The bikers were intimidated with fully-armed special police detachments. Polish ambassador received from the Russian Foreign Ministry a note of protest with a request to give formal explanation of blocking the commemorative action, calling a total refusal to remember the Auschwitz.

http://tass.ru/politika/1938466
http://www.kp.ru/daily/26372.5/3253603/

Not only that, but the Polish authorities put a military cordon with armoured vehicles around a memorial cemetery, prohibiting Polish bikers, who took up the cross, from entering it and laying flowers to the graves of the Soviet soldiers, who 70 years ago paid with their lives for liberation of Poland. Polish authorities have thus used military against democratic right of their own Polish citizens.


(1) Stalin and Hitler agreed to split the country in half. (2) I wouldn't say they were liberated at all. (3) They were only "liberated" from one oppressive regime to another.
A little ridiculous though.

1. Wrong perception of the event. I'll repeat, what I wrote earlier:
That non-aggression pact was a brilliant tactical feat that postponed an imminent attack of Germany on the Soviet Union at a time when USSR was fighting with Germany's ally - Japan - in Mongolia. At that time USSR could ill afford fighting on two fronts, and would have surely lost. If not for that pact, Europe and Russia would be speaking German now, and China and the rest of Asia - Japanese. Always look at a a bigger picture.

2. You are mixing up liberation of Poland and the prior strategic move designed so as not to lose the war before it even started. Read the following two articles:
http://stanislavs.org/the-sorrow-of-a-warsaw-woman-why-poland-is-not-happy-to-be-liberated-from-fascism/
http://stanislavs.org/ungrateful-europe-what-would-have-happened-should-we-push-hitler-back-just-to-our-borders/

3. An "oppressive regime" that gave Poland large landmasses, treated Poland as a nation, infused Polish economy with Soviet funds, workforce and engineers (at a detriment to the Soviet Union/Russia). See the two articles above.
897  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Hitler vs. Stalin on: April 29, 2015, 09:10:46 AM

That's a nice idea. But it raises questions about how they choose questions and such. Is there a video online of the event?

You can read more about it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1028354.0
898  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by an air-to-air missile on: April 28, 2015, 09:18:51 PM
Well, every video/image that was so far released by Ukraine and picked up by the Western MSM, were proven to be fake, or were at least raising quite big questions. Remember that before, there was an image of supposedly "Russian" BUK moving to Ukraine, which, using it's side-number, turned out to be a part of a Ukrainian division from Driepropetrovsk.

In other news, a Dutch forensic scientist, who mentioned some of the information pertaining the inquiry to his students, was fired:

Dutch expert fired after showing MH17 victim photos in public lecture
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/dutch-expert-fired-after-showing-mh17-victim-photos-in-public-lecture
899  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: April 28, 2015, 09:11:07 PM
Ukraine is escalating the conflict again:

Ukrainian troops are concentrated along the whole of the front:
http://www.bfm.ru/news/291865

Ukraine also announced the 5th wave of mobilisation (mogilisation/corpsecription)
http://ria.ru/world/20150428/1061470634.html?isasa

It's teeming with American "advisors" in all of the dislocation points of Ukrainian troops, DNR's Ministry of Defence reports:
http://www.vz.ru/news/2015/4/28/742742.html

Ukrainian Soldiers' Mothers Committee has published the documents of the soldiers, who died in Debaltsevo, saying Poroshenko hides the real numbers:
http://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1938816

OCSE observers earlier reported about the escalation of hostilities around the site of Donetsk airport.
900  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 70 years after the Victory: Lest We Forget (despite every effort to do so) on: April 28, 2015, 08:57:47 PM
Polish authorities are going too far in their boot-licking.

As we all know, the only 3 countries that opposed the recent UN resolution against glorification of Nazism are USA, Canada and Ukraine.

Poland didn't have anything against, when fully-armed US troops waltzed over their country.

However, they blocked the Russian bikers, civilians, on their motor-cross "The Roads of Victory", commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany. Not only Polish authorities grill the bikers and journalists - all having valid Schengen visas - for 6 hours at the border, they failed to give any plausible reason for the refusal to enter the country. The bikers were intimidated with fully-armed special police detachments. Polish ambassador received from the Russian Foreign Ministry a note of protest with a request to give formal explanation of blocking the commemorative action, calling a total refusal to remember the Auschwitz.

http://tass.ru/politika/1938466
http://www.kp.ru/daily/26372.5/3253603/

Not only that, but the Polish authorities put a military cordon with armoured vehicles around a memorial cemetery, prohibiting Polish bikers, who took up the cross, from entering it and laying flowers to the graves of the Soviet soldiers, who 70 years ago paid with their lives for liberation of Poland. Polish authorities have thus used military against democratic right of their own Polish citizens.

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