Turchinov is not only a moron, he is a dangerous moron to be exterminated together with his puppet master.
The world media and “elected” leaders of western countries are simply compromised on daily basis as they further support the crooky government of Ukrainian criminal state. Not to forget who paid for maidan and is giving a helping hand to the murderers of civilians in Donbass!
There will be not enough ropes in Haag if all that warmongers would be put on trial.
The thing to dream of is that the Russians will not rely on Haag´s justice and make their own case followed with punishments by execution. But that would imply to finally begin with stop calling the enemies “partners”, proper is “scum of the Earth”.
The Hague (ICC) is in the same scrap bin as League of Nations and UN. There is no international law.
The US does not feel that it is bound by any of these conventions. It is now law of the jungle.
“Everyone thought Ukraine would suddenly turn into Poland,” said mechanic Taras Yakubovsky, sitting by a cast-iron woodburner in his small garage, where work has dried up because customers can no longer afford car repairs. “But we’ve become more like Europe’s Somalia.” http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/10/us-ukraine-crisis-west-idUSKBN0N112E20150410
They may have some of Poland’s “success” anyway.Around 5 million Poles have already fled Poland over the years to work in Western Europe.To be able to support themselves and send money to support their families. So he should not fear, if he is lucky he can join them. Cleaning toilets and building houses in Germany and Britain.While his aged parents raise his kids in broken down villages in West Ukraine. Yes,with a little “luck” Ukraine can end up just “like Poland”.Glory to “Heroes” indeed.
Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada voted down the law, that makes all the murderous military organizations, that commited countless unimaginably cruel crimes during The Second World War, “warriors for freedom”. Now Ukrainians and even foreign citizens, who dare to criticise the beasts from UPA, may be chared with “disrespect towards heroes” (sorry if I named it mistakenly).
My nation was the one, that suffered most during the slaughter of Wolyn. They murdered over 140 thousands of Poles (some historians claim, that it was 200 thousands, we cannot even be sure…). It was definitely on of the worst massacres in European history – and one, that was not even admitted by any Ukrainian government, let alone apologised for. They always pretend, that it was our fault ( ?!), a fight for independence, or whatever nice word they can come up with.
And now, Polish President, the one who ought to represent Polish nation, comes to Kiev and talks about “mutual peace, agreement and forgivenes”. He insulted us all. Forgiveness can be given, but only when someone asks for it and regrets their crime. Verkhovna Rada voted the act I mentioned above the very same day, when Komorowski visited Kiev. They are spitting in our faces and worst of all is the fact, that our government, President, opposition, media don’t seem to care at all. Always the same rubbish – that we need to support poor, attacked Ukraine from the kingdom of evil, that we have to show solidarity with them, give money (which we don’t really have), invite Ukrainian students and pay for their education (well, who cares if a Polish student gets a stipend or not. Some time ago there was a situation, when Ukrainian students in Eastern Poland made themselves a selfie with red-and-black UPA flag, no problem).
To sum up, Poland is ruled by traitors. How much worse can it get? Every day new line of absurd is crossed.
‘Traitors’ is right. With Tusk using the EU presidency and Komorovsky the Polish to schmooze with Porky in Kiev, Poland is being pushed to war on behalf of NATO.
A carve-up of Ukraine will follow with some chunk going to Poland. But the real beneficiaries will be the IMF-led multinationals.
These three among others will be amply rewarded. Are Poles willing to die for them?
No, how can we kick our “most trusted allies” out?
As for dieing for these criminals you mentioned – no, most Poles don’t care for them. But – what is somewhat strange – in almost every elections the structure of votes is very much the same (however, the attendance is low, between 30-40% ).
The situation in Ukraine made it all worse – all parties take part in a race “who hates Evil Russia more”, whenever some politician mentions that maybe, just MAYBE, the official narration is not entirely true, media and other politicians rise the question whether he is a Kremlin agent or a useful idiot. So, no opposition can exist in such circumstances.
On the other hand, there are not so few Poles, who start to see, that we have a nazi or nearly-nazi state at our borders and that supporting it is likely to lead to tragic results (I mean, tragic for Poland). These are some nationalist organizations, but not only them. So, “hope dies last”, doesn’t it?
There was a survey showing, what Poles would do if the war (of course with Russia, no possibilities are considered). It difers, whether a person lives in Western or Eastern Poland – in the East more then a half said they would willingly go fight. In the West it was more diversified – some said they would just protect their homes and family but not necessary in the army, some openly claimed the would run abroad. In general, if I remember it right, less then 40% were willing to join the army in such a situation.
I apoligise for this OT, but I thought it’s good to write something about what it’s like in a country which borders with Ukraine and is being intentionaly pushed towards a suicidal war.
O/T………
Just reading the discussion about Facebook using even non user’s details and claiming innocence.I made a comment,blocked 403 in red,try another browser/network,IOWords, get lost.
the guilty comment.
” When you realise all data from fb is trawled by the alphabet set,NSA,FBI etc.,and when you are stopped at the airport one day in the future and refused a visa somewhere,you’ll get the idea .Orwell had the smarts.It’s all in there between the lines,and happening now.”
So I try one more time.
“happy happy happy never mentioned the alphabet set,honest guvnor. don’t lock me up. ref 403/coded out,charming.
Orwell had the smarts.It’s all in there between the lines,and happening now.”
Yet another slap in the face of Russia: India to buy 36 rafale from France.
Remember when we were told France would lose all kinds of armament contracts?
Meanwhile, Putin can’t get his floating cans… But he gave Hollande and Merkel what they wanted when Novorossia was about to inflict a major defeat to the Kiev regime.
Oh and so much for the BRICS… Most of us knew it was hot air.
Russia is just losing ground on all fronts. Only a cheerleader would deny it.
[…]
It is not yet clear whether the order announced Friday is for a first batch of Rafales with more to come, or whether it will also entail the cancellation of an original, tentative order for 126 Rafales requested by India in 2012 for $15 billion.
[…]
India has been a longtime buyer of French warplanes. It bought the Dassault Ouragan, the French firm’s first jet fighter, in 1953 and currently operates the Mirage 2000. To win the 2012 competition, one of the biggest military contracts in recent history, the Rafale defeated a slew of rivals including the Eurofighter Typhoon made by Britain, Italy, Germany and Spain; the Swedish Saab Gripen; two U.S. planes, the Boeing F-18 and the Lockheed-Martin F-16; and the Russian MiG-29. […]
This BBC article keeps alive the many questions about who fired at Maidan more than a year ago. BBC interviewed Sergei, who said he was one of the nationalist ukrainian snipers.
Do my ears and eyed deceive me, or have I just heard that Kiev’s military forces have launched massive shelling along the Donetsk border and the whole front line are under shelling? Where’s everyone? Where’re the updates and the news and the links?
April 9, 2015
Translated by Kristina Rus
Based on reports from Rusvesna
Ex-Minister of Defence of DPR Igor Strelkov:
“In general, we can say that the ceasefire is over – the entire front is under fire, including artillery. Shock troops of the enemy moved to the forefront.”
Donetsk under fire
War correspondent “Step” reports:
Shells are whistling again over the cities of Donbass. In Donetsk the sirens of ambulances and emergency services are heard. Under fire: Kievsky district, Oktyabrsky village, Panfilov mine village, Gladkova, Severny, Putilovka.
The entire evening of April 9 there was a battle in the village of Spartak and near Peski. […]
No your ears and eyes don’t deceive you.The junta in their Satanic Evil has picked Orthodox Easter to launch an assault on the people of Novorossia.I’m not at all surprised.The Empire’s and its stooge’s always pick important dates for their attacks.Hopefully this won’t be unanswered.At the very least.And I do mean “very least” the NAF should return all their artillery to the fronts and let loose a salvo able to be heard in Kiev itself.As well as informing the OSCE and the “Minisk quartet ” that one more shell from the junta side permanently ends the ceasefire and the presence of the OSCE in the region.
From one of Russia’s poets in WW2, Konstantin Simonov.Those that doubt Russians should read and be humbled.Here is what can’t be really described,the Russian Soul :
to Valentina Serova
The major brought the boy out on the gun;
His mother dead, unwept, no time for tears.
He was a child for whom the last ten days
In this world or the next will count as years.
They brought him from the fortress, Brest-Litovsk,
Bullets had scarred and scratched the battered gun;
His father had decided there was nowhere
A safer place of refuge for his son.
The gun was shattered and the father wounded,
And fastened on, to hold him in the night,
The grey-haired child was sleeping on the carriage,
Holding his bedtime plaything to him tight.
We met him sleeping as we came from Russia;
He woke, and waved, as troops went down the track.
You say that I should leave this task to others –
That I’ve been there and now I should come back.
You only know this misery from hearsay!
We saw it, and our hearts will never mend!
Whoever saw that little boy’s condition
Will not come home again until the end.
I have to see, with those same eyes that saw him –
– Those eyes that wept there, in the dust of war –
I have to see that child return there with us,
And kiss the ground on which he lived before.
For everything which you and I have valued,
The law of war insists we have to fight!
My home is now no longer where it was, dear –
It’s where that child has lost his home tonight.
June 1941
____________________________________________________________________________
to Alexei Surkov
Remember, Alyosha, the roads of Smolenshchina,
Remember the rain and the mud and the pain,
The women, exhausted, who brought milk in pitchers,
And clasped them like babies at breast, from the rain.
The whispering words as we passed them – “God bless you!”
The eyes where they secretly wiped away tears!
And how they all promised they would be “soldatki”,
– The words of old Russia from earlier years.
The road disappearing past hills in the distance,
Its length that we measured with tears on the run.
And villages, villages, churches and churchyards,
As if all of Russia were gathered in one.
It seemed that in each Russian village we passed through,
The hands of our ancestors under the sod
Were making the sign of the cross and protecting
Their children, no longer believers in god.
You know, I believe that the Russia we fight for
Is not the dull town where I lived at a loss
But those country tracks that our ancestors followed,
The graves where they lie, with the old Russian cross.
I feel that for me, it was countryside Russia
That first made me feel I must truly belong
To the tedious miles between village and village,
The tears of the widow, the women’s sad song.
Remember, Alyosha, the hut at Borisov,
The cry of the girl as she mourned, and the sight
Of the grey-haired old woman, her velveteen jacket,
The old man, as if dressed for death, all in white!
And what could we say? With what words could we comfort them?
Yet seeming to gather the sense of our lack,
The old woman said “We shall wait for you, darlings!
Wherever you get to, we know you’ll come back!”
“We know you’ll come back!” said the fields and the pastures,
“We know you’ll come back!” said the woods and the hill.
Alyosha, at nights I can hear them behind me.
Their voices are following after me still.
By old Russian practice, mere fire and destruction
Are all we abandon behind us in war.
We see alongside us the deaths of our comrades,
By old Russian practice, the breast to the fore.
Alyosha, till now we’ve been spared by the bullets.
But when (for the third time) my life seemed to end,
I yet still felt proud of the dearest of countries,
The great bitter land I was born to defend.
I’m proud that the mother who bore us was Russian;
That Russian I’ll fall as my ancestors fell;
That going to battle, the woman was Russian,
Who kissed me three times in a Russian farewell!
I’m not sure if that was very much of a Russophile song after all.But this one while nothing to do directly with Russia.Would I think have a meaning in Novorossia and to all those struggling for freedom from the Empire in the World.Especially in America Latina:
Yes, nobody notices or cares, not here, & certainly not Putin.
Anyone seen him?
And on another front, another one of Russia’s “friends” who got stabbed in the back at the critical time, is about to bite the dust in Syria, just like their former (now RIP) friend Momo in LiberateYa.
Time to trot out Mean Mr. Mumbles to drone on about their friends so I can remember who it is exactly he’s talking about.
But doesn’t this present a wonderful opportunity to get one of those ‘independent’ bodies like the IAEA to investigate Ukraine and nuclear weapons?
There was a Budapest Memorandum about Ukraine giving up any nukes in the early 90’s if I recall. And if they are messing with the nuclear fuel from the nuclear power stations in Ukraine then perhaps considerable more oversight is required?
It’s likely bluff and bluster but given the seriousness of it and the likelihood of immediate retaliation by Russia that could lead to WWIII and/or radioactive clouds over other countries, you’d think it might shake a few overly comfortable bureaucrats out from behind their woodwork.
It’s exceptionally dangerous given the current amateurs in the US government, the ugly arrogant and belligerent Neocons who can see no further than their moronic noses and the lack of any back-channels and safeguards that were preent during the Cold War and Cuban missile crisis.
Did McPain show up recently anywhere in w. uke to deliver his war prayer & “kick off” this recent invasion?
Or did they have to make it less obvious & not parade them out beforehand this time?
There’s this recent gem, not on the quotes list, from him (March/2015):
The Israelis will need to chart their own path of resistance. On the Iranian nuclear deal, they may have to go rogue. Let’s hope their warnings have not been mere bluffs.
If the situation in Yemen continues to develop in its current direction, and circumstances implicate that it will, then Saudi Arabia will have to seriously consider a ground operation supported by Egypt, which has the most dominant army in the region. In addition, the leader of Houthis Shiites, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, threatened participants in invasion, that Yemen would be their “grave”, which is probably not far from the truth. It is obvious that Yemen’s democracy and constitutional order are not what is at stake and military intervention from Saudi Arabia in Yemen, supported by the U.S. is related to the age-old conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, as well as the man-made blown out of proportion religious conflict between the Sunni and Shiite. While Yemen ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Lendman claims here April 8 that the entire mystique legend of the BRICS is just fiction–it is anything but a move away from the $USD!
While the creation of BRICS has significant geopolitical implications, both the AIIB as well as the proposed BRICS Development Bank (NDB) and its Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) are dollar denominated entities. Unless they are coupled with a multi-currency system of trade and credit, they do not threaten dollar hegemony. Quite the opposite, they tend to sustain and extend dollar denominated lending. Moreover, they replicate several features the Bretton Woods framework.
globalresearch.ca/brics-and-the-fiction-of-de-dollarization/5441301
Moreover, I found time to listen to CAF here, and so just months ago she explained how the $USD is so intertwined into every program, every alphabet agency, every acronym, & every data gathering defense corp (she names them) that Putin literally can’t buy a can of coke in russia, using anything other than cash, without one of these agents knowing about it within at most a few seconds.
She gives the shocking figure of how much trillions $USD is now unaccounted for, versus the acknowledged $2.3T missing from just the Pentagram budget announced on Sept 10/2001 by rumsfeldt.
What we have here, above all, is the China-led New Silk Road(s) directly connecting with the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union (EEU). China and the EEU are bound to set up a free trade zone. Nothing more practically natural, as this is all about Eurasian integration. The details will be fully discussed when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Moscow next month, and at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in June.
Link to internal story about China funding the final $2B leg inside Pak:
pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/04/09/business/china-to-build-ip-gas-pipeline-report/
China will build a pipeline to bring natural gas from Iran to Pakistan to help address Pakistan’s acute energy shortage under a deal to be signed during the Chinese president’s visit to Islamabad this month, Wall Street Journal quoting Pakistani officials said Thursday.
that’s fantastic that Russia’s helping Syria…I actually love Assad…and he sure looks like he’s happy that Lavrov is there and he sure looks like he could use the help…thank God, things are starting to turn around. Hopefully we can turn this around before nuclear war.
Does ISIS really smuggle “$3M worth of oil” into Turkey EVERY DAY? – The Graun of course is suitably uncritical and open-mouthed at the Indiana Jones awesomeness of it all, but some might think there are a few points in here that require a little more development.
re: 4/10/15 South Front: Sobering, detailed news. Hmmm. We need to come up with alternative, opposing operational names like for Operation Noble Jump…how about Operation Jumping Jack Flash? :-). ?
Turchinov is not only a moron, he is a dangerous moron to be exterminated together with his puppet master.
The world media and “elected” leaders of western countries are simply compromised on daily basis as they further support the crooky government of Ukrainian criminal state. Not to forget who paid for maidan and is giving a helping hand to the murderers of civilians in Donbass!
There will be not enough ropes in Haag if all that warmongers would be put on trial.
The thing to dream of is that the Russians will not rely on Haag´s justice and make their own case followed with punishments by execution. But that would imply to finally begin with stop calling the enemies “partners”, proper is “scum of the Earth”.
The Hague (ICC) is in the same scrap bin as League of Nations and UN. There is no international law.
The US does not feel that it is bound by any of these conventions. It is now law of the jungle.
“Everyone thought Ukraine would suddenly turn into Poland,” said mechanic Taras Yakubovsky, sitting by a cast-iron woodburner in his small garage, where work has dried up because customers can no longer afford car repairs. “But we’ve become more like Europe’s Somalia.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/10/us-ukraine-crisis-west-idUSKBN0N112E20150410
They may have some of Poland’s “success” anyway.Around 5 million Poles have already fled Poland over the years to work in Western Europe.To be able to support themselves and send money to support their families. So he should not fear, if he is lucky he can join them. Cleaning toilets and building houses in Germany and Britain.While his aged parents raise his kids in broken down villages in West Ukraine. Yes,with a little “luck” Ukraine can end up just “like Poland”.Glory to “Heroes” indeed.
Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada voted down the law, that makes all the murderous military organizations, that commited countless unimaginably cruel crimes during The Second World War, “warriors for freedom”. Now Ukrainians and even foreign citizens, who dare to criticise the beasts from UPA, may be chared with “disrespect towards heroes” (sorry if I named it mistakenly).
My nation was the one, that suffered most during the slaughter of Wolyn. They murdered over 140 thousands of Poles (some historians claim, that it was 200 thousands, we cannot even be sure…). It was definitely on of the worst massacres in European history – and one, that was not even admitted by any Ukrainian government, let alone apologised for. They always pretend, that it was our fault ( ?!), a fight for independence, or whatever nice word they can come up with.
And now, Polish President, the one who ought to represent Polish nation, comes to Kiev and talks about “mutual peace, agreement and forgivenes”. He insulted us all. Forgiveness can be given, but only when someone asks for it and regrets their crime. Verkhovna Rada voted the act I mentioned above the very same day, when Komorowski visited Kiev. They are spitting in our faces and worst of all is the fact, that our government, President, opposition, media don’t seem to care at all. Always the same rubbish – that we need to support poor, attacked Ukraine from the kingdom of evil, that we have to show solidarity with them, give money (which we don’t really have), invite Ukrainian students and pay for their education (well, who cares if a Polish student gets a stipend or not. Some time ago there was a situation, when Ukrainian students in Eastern Poland made themselves a selfie with red-and-black UPA flag, no problem).
To sum up, Poland is ruled by traitors. How much worse can it get? Every day new line of absurd is crossed.
Mara
The answer is clear.Only if Poles have the will (guts in slang) for it, “Polish Spring”.
@Mara
‘Traitors’ is right. With Tusk using the EU presidency and Komorovsky the Polish to schmooze with Porky in Kiev, Poland is being pushed to war on behalf of NATO.
A carve-up of Ukraine will follow with some chunk going to Poland. But the real beneficiaries will be the IMF-led multinationals.
These three among others will be amply rewarded. Are Poles willing to die for them?
Kick. NATO. OUT.
No, how can we kick our “most trusted allies” out?
As for dieing for these criminals you mentioned – no, most Poles don’t care for them. But – what is somewhat strange – in almost every elections the structure of votes is very much the same (however, the attendance is low, between 30-40% ).
The situation in Ukraine made it all worse – all parties take part in a race “who hates Evil Russia more”, whenever some politician mentions that maybe, just MAYBE, the official narration is not entirely true, media and other politicians rise the question whether he is a Kremlin agent or a useful idiot. So, no opposition can exist in such circumstances.
On the other hand, there are not so few Poles, who start to see, that we have a nazi or nearly-nazi state at our borders and that supporting it is likely to lead to tragic results (I mean, tragic for Poland). These are some nationalist organizations, but not only them. So, “hope dies last”, doesn’t it?
There was a survey showing, what Poles would do if the war (of course with Russia, no possibilities are considered). It difers, whether a person lives in Western or Eastern Poland – in the East more then a half said they would willingly go fight. In the West it was more diversified – some said they would just protect their homes and family but not necessary in the army, some openly claimed the would run abroad. In general, if I remember it right, less then 40% were willing to join the army in such a situation.
I apoligise for this OT, but I thought it’s good to write something about what it’s like in a country which borders with Ukraine and is being intentionaly pushed towards a suicidal war.
O/T………
Just reading the discussion about Facebook using even non user’s details and claiming innocence.I made a comment,blocked 403 in red,try another browser/network,IOWords, get lost.
the guilty comment.
” When you realise all data from fb is trawled by the alphabet set,NSA,FBI etc.,and when you are stopped at the airport one day in the future and refused a visa somewhere,you’ll get the idea .Orwell had the smarts.It’s all in there between the lines,and happening now.”
So I try one more time.
“happy happy happy never mentioned the alphabet set,honest guvnor. don’t lock me up. ref 403/coded out,charming.
Orwell had the smarts.It’s all in there between the lines,and happening now.”
block again,go to hell GuSSardian UK.
Happy Easter ALL.
Xb,the one and only,NB
Yet another slap in the face of Russia: India to buy 36 rafale from France.
Remember when we were told France would lose all kinds of armament contracts?
Meanwhile, Putin can’t get his floating cans… But he gave Hollande and Merkel what they wanted when Novorossia was about to inflict a major defeat to the Kiev regime.
Oh and so much for the BRICS… Most of us knew it was hot air.
Russia is just losing ground on all fronts. Only a cheerleader would deny it.
But it’s only 36 instead of the original 126, so it’s hardly a smashing victory for the French.
not exactly a slap in the face to Russia:
http://www.ibtimes.com/india-buys-36-rafale-fighter-jets-frances-dassault-may-get-about-half-2019-1877703
[…]
It is not yet clear whether the order announced Friday is for a first batch of Rafales with more to come, or whether it will also entail the cancellation of an original, tentative order for 126 Rafales requested by India in 2012 for $15 billion.
[…]
India has been a longtime buyer of French warplanes. It bought the Dassault Ouragan, the French firm’s first jet fighter, in 1953 and currently operates the Mirage 2000. To win the 2012 competition, one of the biggest military contracts in recent history, the Rafale defeated a slew of rivals including the Eurofighter Typhoon made by Britain, Italy, Germany and Spain; the Swedish Saab Gripen; two U.S. planes, the Boeing F-18 and the Lockheed-Martin F-16; and the Russian MiG-29. […]
Ok. Thanks for the details. Certainly something to follow.
India is actually spending more and buying more fighters from Russia.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/10/401095/India-to-spend-25bn-on-Russian-5G-jets
India has always bought from several sources, smartly avoiding being hostage to one supplier.
This BBC article keeps alive the many questions about who fired at Maidan more than a year ago. BBC interviewed Sergei, who said he was one of the nationalist ukrainian snipers.
The untold story of the Maidan massacre
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31359021
Do my ears and eyed deceive me, or have I just heard that Kiev’s military forces have launched massive shelling along the Donetsk border and the whole front line are under shelling? Where’s everyone? Where’re the updates and the news and the links?
Yup — the war is on again, as expected.
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/04/kiev-junta-launches-large-scale-attack.html
Kiev junta launches a large scale attack on Novorossia right in time for Russian Orthodox Easter
April 9, 2015
Translated by Kristina Rus
Based on reports from Rusvesna
Ex-Minister of Defence of DPR Igor Strelkov:
“In general, we can say that the ceasefire is over – the entire front is under fire, including artillery. Shock troops of the enemy moved to the forefront.”
Donetsk under fire
War correspondent “Step” reports:
Shells are whistling again over the cities of Donbass. In Donetsk the sirens of ambulances and emergency services are heard. Under fire: Kievsky district, Oktyabrsky village, Panfilov mine village, Gladkova, Severny, Putilovka.
The entire evening of April 9 there was a battle in the village of Spartak and near Peski. […]
No your ears and eyes don’t deceive you.The junta in their Satanic Evil has picked Orthodox Easter to launch an assault on the people of Novorossia.I’m not at all surprised.The Empire’s and its stooge’s always pick important dates for their attacks.Hopefully this won’t be unanswered.At the very least.And I do mean “very least” the NAF should return all their artillery to the fronts and let loose a salvo able to be heard in Kiev itself.As well as informing the OSCE and the “Minisk quartet ” that one more shell from the junta side permanently ends the ceasefire and the presence of the OSCE in the region.
From one of Russia’s poets in WW2, Konstantin Simonov.Those that doubt Russians should read and be humbled.Here is what can’t be really described,the Russian Soul :
to Valentina Serova
The major brought the boy out on the gun;
His mother dead, unwept, no time for tears.
He was a child for whom the last ten days
In this world or the next will count as years.
They brought him from the fortress, Brest-Litovsk,
Bullets had scarred and scratched the battered gun;
His father had decided there was nowhere
A safer place of refuge for his son.
The gun was shattered and the father wounded,
And fastened on, to hold him in the night,
The grey-haired child was sleeping on the carriage,
Holding his bedtime plaything to him tight.
We met him sleeping as we came from Russia;
He woke, and waved, as troops went down the track.
You say that I should leave this task to others –
That I’ve been there and now I should come back.
You only know this misery from hearsay!
We saw it, and our hearts will never mend!
Whoever saw that little boy’s condition
Will not come home again until the end.
I have to see, with those same eyes that saw him –
– Those eyes that wept there, in the dust of war –
I have to see that child return there with us,
And kiss the ground on which he lived before.
For everything which you and I have valued,
The law of war insists we have to fight!
My home is now no longer where it was, dear –
It’s where that child has lost his home tonight.
June 1941
____________________________________________________________________________
to Alexei Surkov
Remember, Alyosha, the roads of Smolenshchina,
Remember the rain and the mud and the pain,
The women, exhausted, who brought milk in pitchers,
And clasped them like babies at breast, from the rain.
The whispering words as we passed them – “God bless you!”
The eyes where they secretly wiped away tears!
And how they all promised they would be “soldatki”,
– The words of old Russia from earlier years.
The road disappearing past hills in the distance,
Its length that we measured with tears on the run.
And villages, villages, churches and churchyards,
As if all of Russia were gathered in one.
It seemed that in each Russian village we passed through,
The hands of our ancestors under the sod
Were making the sign of the cross and protecting
Their children, no longer believers in god.
You know, I believe that the Russia we fight for
Is not the dull town where I lived at a loss
But those country tracks that our ancestors followed,
The graves where they lie, with the old Russian cross.
I feel that for me, it was countryside Russia
That first made me feel I must truly belong
To the tedious miles between village and village,
The tears of the widow, the women’s sad song.
Remember, Alyosha, the hut at Borisov,
The cry of the girl as she mourned, and the sight
Of the grey-haired old woman, her velveteen jacket,
The old man, as if dressed for death, all in white!
And what could we say? With what words could we comfort them?
Yet seeming to gather the sense of our lack,
The old woman said “We shall wait for you, darlings!
Wherever you get to, we know you’ll come back!”
“We know you’ll come back!” said the fields and the pastures,
“We know you’ll come back!” said the woods and the hill.
Alyosha, at nights I can hear them behind me.
Their voices are following after me still.
By old Russian practice, mere fire and destruction
Are all we abandon behind us in war.
We see alongside us the deaths of our comrades,
By old Russian practice, the breast to the fore.
Alyosha, till now we’ve been spared by the bullets.
But when (for the third time) my life seemed to end,
I yet still felt proud of the dearest of countries,
The great bitter land I was born to defend.
I’m proud that the mother who bore us was Russian;
That Russian I’ll fall as my ancestors fell;
That going to battle, the woman was Russian,
Who kissed me three times in a Russian farewell!
July 1941
OT.
Since we’ve been on a music kick lately, I though you all would appreciate this: a French girl-band singing the praises of Russia. Les Brigandes – Laissez vivre la Russie – Не мешайте жить России.
I’m not sure if that was very much of a Russophile song after all.But this one while nothing to do directly with Russia.Would I think have a meaning in Novorossia and to all those struggling for freedom from the Empire in the World.Especially in America Latina:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86LSuXi5TLU
Can you imagine any other country, except perhaps Israel and patron, threatening anyone with a nuclear dirty bomb? Can you imagine the reaction?
Iran, Syria or any other Middle East country?
But Kiev’s neo-Fascists are totally protected and such news suppressed. Not a peep from the ‘free’ western media.
The world is barking mad.
No I can’t either.And that alone should be enough of a reason to destroy the criminal junta regime.
Yes, nobody notices or cares, not here, & certainly not Putin.
Anyone seen him?
And on another front, another one of Russia’s “friends” who got stabbed in the back at the critical time, is about to bite the dust in Syria, just like their former (now RIP) friend Momo in LiberateYa.
Time to trot out Mean Mr. Mumbles to drone on about their friends so I can remember who it is exactly he’s talking about.
http://www.allyoucanread.com/damascus-newspaper-syria/
Do not think for a moment that Turchinov did it on his own. Evil puppets have a well defined role in each play, as long it lasts.
Regards, Spiral
But doesn’t this present a wonderful opportunity to get one of those ‘independent’ bodies like the IAEA to investigate Ukraine and nuclear weapons?
There was a Budapest Memorandum about Ukraine giving up any nukes in the early 90’s if I recall. And if they are messing with the nuclear fuel from the nuclear power stations in Ukraine then perhaps considerable more oversight is required?
It’s likely bluff and bluster but given the seriousness of it and the likelihood of immediate retaliation by Russia that could lead to WWIII and/or radioactive clouds over other countries, you’d think it might shake a few overly comfortable bureaucrats out from behind their woodwork.
It’s exceptionally dangerous given the current amateurs in the US government, the ugly arrogant and belligerent Neocons who can see no further than their moronic noses and the lack of any back-channels and safeguards that were preent during the Cold War and Cuban missile crisis.
Did McPain show up recently anywhere in w. uke to deliver his war prayer & “kick off” this recent invasion?
Or did they have to make it less obvious & not parade them out beforehand this time?
http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-mccain.jpg
80 next year, & it shows.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_mccain_2.html
There’s this recent gem, not on the quotes list, from him (March/2015):
The Israelis will need to chart their own path of resistance. On the Iranian nuclear deal, they may have to go rogue. Let’s hope their warnings have not been mere bluffs.
Have You people read this :
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=35a_1428524593
Beautiful …
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/04/09/262695/desperation-for-americans-in-yemen.html
US refuses to rescue 3000 Americans stranded in Yemen. It’s a US war; they’re handling the intelligence, the targeting, the refueling, etc.
that’s a subscriber link U gave.
Here’s one from Apr 9th:
If the situation in Yemen continues to develop in its current direction, and circumstances implicate that it will, then Saudi Arabia will have to seriously consider a ground operation supported by Egypt, which has the most dominant army in the region. In addition, the leader of Houthis Shiites, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, threatened participants in invasion, that Yemen would be their “grave”, which is probably not far from the truth. It is obvious that Yemen’s democracy and constitutional order are not what is at stake and military intervention from Saudi Arabia in Yemen, supported by the U.S. is related to the age-old conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, as well as the man-made blown out of proportion religious conflict between the Sunni and Shiite. While Yemen ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/04/09/rus-jemen-na-poroge-ocherednoj-tragedii/
More interesting news.
Lendman claims here April 8 that the entire mystique legend of the BRICS is just fiction–it is anything but a move away from the $USD!
While the creation of BRICS has significant geopolitical implications, both the AIIB as well as the proposed BRICS Development Bank (NDB) and its Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) are dollar denominated entities. Unless they are coupled with a multi-currency system of trade and credit, they do not threaten dollar hegemony. Quite the opposite, they tend to sustain and extend dollar denominated lending. Moreover, they replicate several features the Bretton Woods framework.
globalresearch.ca/brics-and-the-fiction-of-de-dollarization/5441301
Moreover, I found time to listen to CAF here, and so just months ago she explained how the $USD is so intertwined into every program, every alphabet agency, every acronym, & every data gathering defense corp (she names them) that Putin literally can’t buy a can of coke in russia, using anything other than cash, without one of these agents knowing about it within at most a few seconds.
She gives the shocking figure of how much trillions $USD is now unaccounted for, versus the acknowledged $2.3T missing from just the Pentagram budget announced on Sept 10/2001 by rumsfeldt.
Catherine Austin Fitts at the Secret Space Program Conference, 2014 San Mateo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0mimIp8mr8
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150410/1020708138.html
Germany’s Federal Security Council has approved the export of a fifth submarine to Israel.
It’s the penultimate submarine promised to Israel by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and will be handed over by the company Thyssen Krupp.
Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper revealed the approval, citing the Federal Security Council’s report to the parliamentary Economics Committee.
Pepe APR10:
What we have here, above all, is the China-led New Silk Road(s) directly connecting with the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union (EEU). China and the EEU are bound to set up a free trade zone. Nothing more practically natural, as this is all about Eurasian integration. The details will be fully discussed when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Moscow next month, and at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in June.
http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20150410/1020714196.html
Link to internal story about China funding the final $2B leg inside Pak:
pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/04/09/business/china-to-build-ip-gas-pipeline-report/
China will build a pipeline to bring natural gas from Iran to Pakistan to help address Pakistan’s acute energy shortage under a deal to be signed during the Chinese president’s visit to Islamabad this month, Wall Street Journal quoting Pakistani officials said Thursday.
that’s fantastic that Russia’s helping Syria…I actually love Assad…and he sure looks like he’s happy that Lavrov is there and he sure looks like he could use the help…thank God, things are starting to turn around. Hopefully we can turn this around before nuclear war.
Not only para maneuvers in Cz involving pindos:
US Paratroopers Carry Out First Skydiving Exercises in Estonia – Army
Apparently the exercise went without incident, since there were no reported pindo bug splats on the Estonian landscape. :(
Does ISIS really smuggle “$3M worth of oil” into Turkey EVERY DAY? – The Graun of course is suitably uncritical and open-mouthed at the Indiana Jones awesomeness of it all, but some might think there are a few points in here that require a little more development.
Read more here:http://offguardian.org/2015/04/10/does-isis-really-smuggle-3m-worth-of-oil-into-turkey-every-day/
re: 4/10/15 South Front: Sobering, detailed news. Hmmm. We need to come up with alternative, opposing operational names like for Operation Noble Jump…how about Operation Jumping Jack Flash? :-). ?
Globalresearch.ca carried this video report from South Front:
Kiev Launches Massive Battle-Tank Shelling in Donbass, NATO Military Exercise in Czech Republic directed against Russia