There's a picture of a man shaking his fist and saying “Liberals, we don't like Putin not because he's Stalin, but because he's not Stalin enough.”
If that is the case they they should have said so at the ballot box, they didn't, spin it anyway you like the fact is Yanukovych was the elected President the vast majority in Donbass voted for him he was not removed with an election he was overthrown by outside forces helped by Nationalist fascists and a coup, end of.
The only reason Ukraine exists is to wage war on Russia, once the war is over and the$$$$ stop Zelenskey is a dead man walking and so is the Regime,although they will have fled with their loot by then.
There's a lot of truth in what you say but let's start from the beginning. I was in Ukraine long before this "war" started. I have been to all of the East European countries (yes, each and every one of them), some of them during the Cold War and some of them after the end of the Cold War. They were all pretty dirty and shabby during the Cold War but they all cleaned themselves up fantastically afterwards. Well, all of them except Ukraine. I was there after the Cold War and it looked like WW II ended only one week before. It’s been run by the corrupt Mafia. Democracy? Forget it! Let us assume that the country had wealth and resources but that it was all siphoned by corruption. I suppose you are going to ask me where they found the money to wage this war. No, you won’t because I don’t need to tell you. You already know. OK. So far so good. Is all of the money from the West reaching the intended goal? Is Ukrainian corruption skimming a large percent of it? You bet it is! Now that the Ukraine corruption has been living high on the hog by Western cash you can be sure they won’t be satisfied once the West stops sending money. So, everything you wrote above is true.
so no more $$, no more war Glas.......~S~
Thanks for the detailed post and your experience in Eastern Europe, but are Ukrainians stupid? they must by now have noticed all the corruption and gangsterism by now and have done little about it, even blamed the wrong people for it.
The population is poorly educated so the answer to your question will remain unanswered.
Hang on. Stalinism was corrupt and it carried on to the end of the Cold War. Men like Alexander Dubček and Imre Nagy tried to break the streak by reforming Communism but the Stalinists crushed them. Communist corruption in Ukraine has simply been replaced by what they have today. Just more of the same corruption by a different name. The Ukrainians never got the chance to experience some of the Democratic principles that the other former Sovjet countries enjoy. I would call Ukraine today a Fascist state and oddly enough the West is slowly moving in the same direction.
Are you now talking about post-USSR? Mikhail Gorbachev also wanted to reform Communism but the cards were stacked against him. I suspect those citizens who "have done little about it" had seen enough and didn't trust Gorbatjov to succeed where Dubček and Nagy had failed. With that I have to agree with you - they blamed the wrong people and mistook the corrupt government and the Radio Free Europe West as their saviours. I am not an expert on the subject and there's plenty of room for critique, so chime in and tell me what you think.
