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"The new Ukrainian poll was paid for by the Canadian Government. The Kiev-based Razumkov Centre surveyed a sample of 2,012 from all regions, interviewing them face-to-face between April 25 and 29. The Razumkov organization has also been receiving funding, direct or indirect, from Victor Pinchuk, the Dniepropetrovsk steelmaker promoting Ukrainian accession to the European Union. "The findings appear not to differ significantly from those of other Kiev pollsters, the Kyiv International Institute for Sociology (KIIS) and the Centre for Social and Marketing Research (SOCIS)." "The Razumkov poll results were released in Ukrainian two days ago. The regional breakdown of voter responses have been made available by Mikhail Mischenko, deputy director of Razumkov’s Sociological Service. In the Ukrainian press to date, the focus has been on the results counted nationally." ... "When Putin proposed postponing the referendum called by the resistance for May 11, the evidence on his desk was strong that a majority of easterners support postponement. "If the secret service polling by the Russians and Americans is as clear as the Razumkov survey, the outcome of the balloting to be held in Donetsk and Lugansk is already irrelevant to the majority of regional voters. "They remain opposed to the use of force by the Kiev government or the national guard it is recruiting from western-region volunteers and mercenaries." Read the whole article here: http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-reveals-impossible-stalemate-in-ukraine-2014-5 My 2 cents: This reveals that anybody advocating for the "takeback" of positions held by the presumably separatist militias in the Donbas - as I've seen in comments posted on UM and here - are a bunch of fracking idiots at best, and wannabe political criminals at worst. The best thing would be for the "anti-terrorist" operation to be called off and the military withdrawn from Donbas. Let the separatist militias undermine themselves should they disregard the advice of their patron Putin and try to interfere with the May 27 vote. Any new Kiev government is doomed, economically speaking, anyway. Anybody pushing for the intensification of internecine nationalist conflict (because who else will be willing to pull the trigger in the East but West Ukraine ultra-nationalists) is pushing a position not merely alien to any Marxist socialist project, but diametrically opposed to it. Not only in Ukraine, but internationally as well. Unless one thinks that a "New Cold War" political atmosphere will be conducive to any left politics in the USA. And yes, there is a section of the US ruling class pushing to create precisely that. It doesn't include Obama or Kerry, who were apparently caught flatfooted by the Ukraine events, the clueless dimwits. Unfortunately for our warmongers, Putin didn't go for the bait. The good news is there is little sign that such an atmosphere is or will take hold here among the US population. This is not 9/11 or McCarthyism. -Matt ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
