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"By contrast, the Donetsk Republic formulates its agenda from below,
literally on the run, in response to the public mood and the course of
events. Strictly speaking this republic is not even a state—rather, it
amounts to a coalition of diverse communities, most of them
self-organised. In essence, it is the perfect embodiment of the
anarchist concept of the revolutionary order."
--Boris Kagarlitsky
NY Times, August 25 2014
In Eastern Ukraine, Rebel Mockery Amid Independence Celebration
By ANDREW E. KRAMER and ANDREW HIGGINS
DONETSK, Ukraine — On a day when Ukrainians celebrated their
independence from the Soviet Union with parades and speeches, pro-Russia
separatists in the eastern part of the country staged a grim
counter-spectacle: a parade that mocked the national army and celebrated
the deaths and imprisonment of its soldiers.
Leading the procession was an attractive young blond woman carrying an
assault rifle, followed by several dozen captured Ukrainian soldiers,
filthy, bruised and unkempt, their heads shaved, wearing fetid
camouflage uniforms and looking down at their feet.
Onlookers shouted that the men should be shot, and pelted the prisoners
with empty beer bottles, eggs and tomatoes as they stumbled down
Artyomovsk Street, Donetsk’s main thoroughfare. A loudspeaker played
Tchaikovsky’s “Slavonic March,” a familiar Russian patriotic piece.
Behind the prisoners were two tanker trucks spraying soapy water,
demonstratively cleaning the pavement where the Ukrainian soldiers had
passed.
People in the crowd shouted “fascists!” and “perverts!” and separatist
fighters held back a man who tried to punch a prisoner.
The Geneva Conventions’ rules for treating prisoners of war prohibit
parading them in public, but the treatment of the wounded, disheveled
prisoners seemed to offend few of those watching, who in any case had
turned out for the promise of seeing a ghoulish spectacle. “Shoot them!”
one woman yelled.
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