*Why has Putin launched a brutal all-out war - accompanied with nuclear muscle flexing, on Ukraine?* *He himself explains in some details in his televised address (on Feb.24) to the nation on its immediate eve.*
*In order to evade condemning the brutal bloody ongoing assault - meant to overrun Ukraine, Putinistas all over the world are out on a mission to explore the "root cause".* *Thanks to Putin for being all too helpful.* Putin is remarkably forthright in his address to the nation. No pussyfooting. Clearly identified Ukraine as a part of Russia, by referring to the glorious (Tsarist) past. (No, he didn't name Peter the Great or Ivan the Terrible.) Strongly castigated Lenin - for his criminal blunder, as the architect of modern Ukraine and chastised Stalin for doing only a half-job - completely subjugated Ukraine and yet not formally erased its separate identity that had been granted by Lenin. Now, he's out to finish what Stalin had left only half done to go back to glory days of the past (under the Tsars). Some very helpful fragments: I. "I would like to emphasise again that Ukraine is not just a neighbouring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space." II. "I will start with the fact that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia. This process started practically right after the 1917 revolution, and Lenin and his associates did it in a way that was extremely harsh on Russia – by separating, severing what is historically Russian land." III. "When it comes to the historical destiny of Russia and its peoples, Lenin’s principles of state development were not just a mistake; they were worse than a mistake, as the saying goes. This became patently clear after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991." IV. "Soviet Ukraine is the result of the Bolsheviks’ policy and can be rightfully called “Vladimir Lenin’s Ukraine.”" V. "It is logical that the Red Terror and a rapid slide into Stalin’s dictatorship, the domination of the communist ideology and the Communist Party’s monopoly on power, nationalisation and the planned economy – all this transformed the formally declared but ineffective principles of government into a mere declaration. In reality, the union republics did not have any sovereign rights, none at all. The practical result was the creation of a tightly centralised and absolutely unitary state." V. "And yet, it is a great pity that the fundamental and formally legal foundations of our state were not promptly cleansed [by Stalin] of the odious and utopian fantasies [of Lenin] inspired by the revolution, which are absolutely destructive for any normal state." Also, on what he's out to achieve: "[T]oday the “grateful progeny” [i.e. independent Ukraine] has overturned monuments to Lenin in Ukraine. They call it decommunization. "You want decommunization? Very well, this suits us just fine. But why stop halfway? We are ready to show what real decommunizations would mean for Ukraine [.e. complete erasure of Ukraine's separate identity that was the doing of the Communist regime]." <http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZg8En97gWEzjHzkJkZdX8v0ZuG6pLCWRmPGw7oyDrFR3Q%40mail.gmail.com.
