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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Greg McDonald <gregm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Excuse me while I shed some crocodile tears. > > According to Ihor Slavhorodsky, head of the Donetsk regional branch of the > Svoboda party, Cherniavsky was the organization's activist and spokesman. > > So we know he was a local activist. If I wanted to go CT, I might even suspect that he was chosen to be the first to die because he fit the profile, he was right wing. But consider also this letter from Donrtsk published prophetically 3 days before this stabbing: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116960/letter-donetsk-not-pro-russia-its-menaced-russian-tourists Donetsk, where I live, was the political base of Viktor Yanukovych, the > former president of my country. Donetsk gave (political) life to > Yanukovych. Donetsk will (politically) smash him. This opinion has been > common in Kiev since the beginning of the Ukrainian revolution. Today it > has become a reality. There are zero Yanukovych supporters in Donetsk these > days. People are angry because they have been massively fooled by him and > his regime. > The revolution gives us this chance, but the counter-revolution has come, > and come from abroad, from Russia. Russia has invaded the Crimean > peninsula, as I am sure you know. Ukrainian sailors and soldiers in Crimea > are under siege on their bases or blockaded in their ships, being treated > as if they have no right to know the truth and to feel righteous anger. > These brave men tell us, the 45 million people who support them, that they > will stay loyal to their oaths of service to Ukraine. I pray that they stay > alive and no one has to die. > > But Crimea is not the only place where we see Russians. Here in > southeastern Ukraine they come as what we like to call "tourists." This > means busloads of people are coming from across the border of Russia, armed > with bats and other unpleasant things, who come to beat Ukrainians who > support their new government. They came to Kharkiv and beat the students > there, and now they have come here. > > > On March 6th, about ten thousand people took part in demonstrations for > peace and for the unity of Ukraine at Lenin Square in Donetsk. No one was > surprised to see around 1,500 hired mercenaries and pro-Russian activists > at the same time in the same place. > > When the demonstration came to an end, some especially aggressive > pro-Russian protestors started a fight with pro-Ukrainian ones. Shakhtar > Ultras, that is, the supporters of the local football club, made an attempt > to protect peaceful demonstrators, which led to an even bigger fight. > Police stepped in but it was obviously impossible to avoid spilling blood. > > What's happening in Kharkiv and Donetsk now reflects someone's strong > intention to provoke and impose an illusion of a local civil conflict. The > pro-Ukrainian side in Donetsk is very strong and entirely aware of the > future they would lose if they join Russia. The pro-Russian side is mostly > represented by aggressive thugs, "tourists" from Russia and older people > who watch Russian television and do not use the Internet. Their time for > dealing with the natural confusion of the moment is now being brutally > stolen by this violent distraction. > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
