- Half a year ago, in the very last day of May I came to
an age-old tiny and tranquil Ukrainian town with its ancient church of
Our Lady of Intercession looking onto a slow river from its high bank,
and I was swept off my feet by a flash-flood of young maidens, fresh and
sixteen, celebrating their high school graduation in a park under an open
warm blue sky, wearing white bands and garlands of flowers in their golden
hair, and white ceremonial aprons on top of dark and mercilessly short
skirts leaving open their graceful knees above high white socks and dark
sleeveless tops flashing tender arms and elbows, blue eyes a-gleaming in
the shade of black poplars. My Greek friend also fell silent and pensive,
and told me with stifled voice: the Ukrainian girls are the most beautiful;
we have nothing like that in our part of the world.
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- This image came back to me as totally different images
of the Orange Revolution flowed from television screens; and the disintegration
of Ukraine became a question of weeks, if not days. This country in its
present borders came into being quite recently, in 1991; the chances are,
Ukraine will be split between West and East; with or without a civil war.
The important achievement of Stalin who brought back the Western Ukraine
into the Orthodox fold from its long captivity under the Western yoke was
undone. It is possible that the border between the two parts will move
further East, where it was in the beginning of the 17th century. Geopolitically,
it is an additional (on top of dismembered Yugoslavia) catastrophe for
the Russians and for Eastern Orthodoxy.
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- The Western forces will advance eastward and threaten
Russia from the positions they lost in the long series of wars that started
with Ivan IV's Livonian War and ended in the partition of Poland in XVIII
century. For geopolitics, ideology plays only a subservient role in the
long-term confrontation and cooperation of civilisations. The Orthodox,
the West and Islam are three big constants; from this point of view, the
Orthodox had lost, and the West gained in the centuries-long game. The
net gainer is the US who realised its wet dream expressed by Brzezinski:
break Ukraine away, for Russia can't be superpower without Ukraine.
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- In Ukraine, the US attained victory that eluded them
in Iraq. However, the identification of the US with the West is far from
perfect. Carl Schmitt preferred to view England and the US as an "Atlantic"
force of the Sea opposing the Continental forces of Western Europe, Russia
and the Islamic world. In my view, the "Atlantic" force is as
religiously grounded as the three others; I called it "Neo-Judaic
civilisation". Ukraine, together with other East European states,
will present an American 'Neo-Judaic' outpost, so-called "New Europe",
flanking independently-minded Europe from the East and Russia from the
West. Western Europe stood by the US in its confrontation with the East
(The Cold War), but the New Europe will forever keep the old, Western Europe
in the siege ring. Thus the US victory in Ukraine is a cause for grave
concern for Europeans and for Russians, as well as for the Islamic world.
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- For the people of Ukraine, the future is gloomy. The
pro-American claimant for Presidency Victor Yushchenko is a devotee of
neo-liberal economics; a supporter of full privatisation and forced sale
of Ukrainian assets to US companies for their soon-to-be-worthless dollars.
In the part of Ukraine he will succeed in keeping (if any), a new American
colony will be established, where US troops will threaten Moscow and control
the profitable oil route. They could learn of their fate from an amazing
book by John Perkins, a self-described "economic hit man" - a
US intelligence professional who cheated countries around the globe out
of trillions of dollars. In an interview[1] Perkins explained his job:
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- "Our job is to build up the American empire. To
create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country
[the US], to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we' ve been
very successful. We've built the largest empire in the history of the world.
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built
primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud,
through seducing people into our way of life. We give countries debts they
can't repay, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is
left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our
servants, our slaves."
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- American support of Yushchenko means that Yushchenko
agreed to do its will, to turn the people of Ukraine into American slaves.
Yushchenko is also supported by the World Bank and by the IMF. Neo-liberal
'market doctrine' promoted by the World Bank had killed millions of Russians,
Africans, Latin Americans whose governments followed their blue-print.
Ukraine has also had its fair share of 'market economy' and its population
is steadily decreasing. Yushchenko pushed for neo-liberalism when he was
the prime minister; now he promised to push even stronger for it.
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- The pro-American forces in the Western Europe, yesterday's
predator, also want to get a share of the spoils, as German observer Susanne
Scheidt wrote:
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- "If Yushchenko will get hold of the government,
he will make sure that the privatization programme drawn up by the World
Bank will go on as scheduled. On behalf of this programme, German banks
have planned huge investments in Ukraine that amount to a take-over of
Ukrainian public utilities, networks and gas transport. The German giant
Ruhrgas AG has already signed a deal with Yushchenko to import gas through
the Ukrainian corridor from US investors in Azerbaijan, whereas the present
Ukrainian government has always refused to sign such a deal".
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- Another great supporter of Yushchenko is a group of Russian
Jewish oligarchs kicked out of Russia by Putin. Extremely wealthy, dreaming
of revenge, hating Putin's Russia, this offshore gang of Berezovsky, Gusinsky
and other ex-Yukos oilmen provide a big share of financial support for
the Orange revolution. They also pay for the services of Russian Israeli
PR experts who organise the show in Kiev. They are supported by the network
of the powerful Ukrainian Jewish community; while behind them stands George
Soros, the Jewish international magnate actively pumping money and organisational
capacities into the Orange forces of Yushchenko. These external forces
rely upon local young men who received training and advice from the experts
who already organised similar putsches in Georgia, Serbia, Romania.
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- Internal supporters of Yushchenko consist of two quite
different groups. The biggest is the nationalists of Galichina, West Ukraine.
While Galichina is a beautiful land with its own traditions, friendship
with the Russians is not one of them. For centuries Galichina belonged
to Poland or to the Austro-Hungarian Empire; their religion is Uniate Christianity;
their language is half-way between Polish and the language spoken in Kiev.
Galichina has a strong nationalist tendency; during the World War Two they
formed an SS division fighting on the German side. Nowadays, they form
the base for such groups as swastika-bearing Svoboda (formerly Ukrainian
National Socialist Party), UNA and UNSO who venerate Bandera, the Ukrainian
nationalist and supporter of Hitler. Today they are united in support of
Yushchenko.
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- They do not mind that Yushchenko is supported by the
Jewish oligarchs; the oligarchs do not mind them, either. Soros even financed
them. So much for antisemitism: the Jews remember to mention it only when
it suits them. In my view, nationalism is often used as cheese in mousetrap.
Bandera the nationalist supported Hitler, but Hitler did not even think
to establish a strong Ukrainian state; he just used the Ukrainian nationalists
to undermine Russia. The same thing happened everywhere: Breton nationalists
supported Hitler for they thought he will establish an independent Brittany.
They were disappointed, for Hitler thought they are unnecessary after he
took over France. Arab nationalists undermined the Ottoman Empire on the
service of the West just to find themselves sold out to the Zionists. Now
the Ukrainian nationalists do the same mistake again - they support the
US; but eventually they will lose for the US does not need a strong independent
Ukraine.
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- Another group of Yushchenko supporters is liberal, relatively
wealthy and pro-Western. Many people, especially in the capital Kiev find
their livelihood connected with the West. There are dozens of very rich
bankers and businessmen, thousands of those who work in NGOs, receive grants
of Soros or of the EC, there are small importers, upmarket tarts; there
are tens of thousands of aspiring young men and students who still hope
to 'make it' in the capitalist competitive society. We know that they will
be disappointed just as it has happened in so many countries; the West
is not going to wait for millions of educated Ukrainians to take their
place at the top. But in Ukraine, as in Russia there are millions who still
believe in the American dream, and America spends a lot of money to keep
this dream alive.
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- The future of Ukraine may be bleak: the beautiful girls
I saw on the shores of Dnepr River will be shipped to cathouses of Tel
Aviv and Istanbul; their boyfriends will fight for America in Iraq and
elsewhere, their coal mines will be privatised, sold for peanuts and closed
down. Ukraine can be free in union with Russia - or in thrall to the West
and the Jews. Whatever the final result of elections - and it will be disputed
- Eastern Ukraine probably will join Russia; Western Ukraine will be taken
up by Poland or will remain an 'independent' stub of a state.
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- There is still a chance to repeat the victory of Chaves
or the Miracle of Minsk, where Lukashenka succeeded to defeat the local
agents of Soros and Berezovsky, for they are not invincible; but Yanukovich
is not made of stern stuff; Putin is not a daring politician, and the Slav
Orthodox world feels itself lost. Maybe that is why tens of thousands of
Russians came spontaneously to visit the tomb of Joseph Stalin on 21 December,
on 150 year jubilee of the great man who restored fortunes of Russia, beat
off the western attacks and united the Ukraine.
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- [2]1 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251
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- Proposed Reading in Russian:
- www.left.ru
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- Proposed Reading in Ukrainian:
- http://www.bratstvo.info/index.shtml
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- Proposed Reading in English:
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- The Ukrainian Elections: A Dangerous Fairy-Tale by Kole
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- Geopolitics of the Ukrainian Breadbasket by Alfred John
Mendes
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- Cold War Crisis in The Ukraine Control of Oil: Key Grand
Chessboard "Pivot" at Stake by Larry Chin
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- IMF Sponsored "Democracy" in The Ukraine by
Michel Chossudovsky
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- In the Ukraine, the IMF not only intervened in the implementation
of the macroeconomic agenda, it also intruded directly in the arena of
domestic party politics.
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- In 1993, Viktor Yushchenko was appointed head of the
newly-formed National Bank of Ukraine. Hailed as a "daring reformer",
he was among the main architects of the IMF's deadly economic medicine
which served to impoverish The Ukraine and destroy its economy.
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- Following his appointment, the Ukraine reached a historical
agreement with the IMF. Mr Yushchenko played a key role in negotiating
the 1994 agreement as well as creating a new Ukrainian national currency,
which resulted in a dramatic decline in the standard of living.
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- Washington's interest in Ukraine: Democracy or Energy
Geopolitics? by William Engdahl
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- The Ukraine elections are not about Western-sanctioned
democratic voting, as some magic formula to open the door to free market
reform and prosperity for Ukrainians. Its mainly about who influences the
largest neighbor of Russia, Washington or Moscow. A dangerous power play
by Washington is involved, to put it mildly. A look at the geo-strategic
background makes things clearer. Ukraine is the transit land for most major
Russian Siberian gas pipelines to Germany and the rest of Europe.
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- Ukraine Presidential Elections, The British Helsinki
Human Rights Group Challenges Media Image of Government-sponsored Fraud
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- This preliminary report of the British Helsinki Human
Rights Group (BHHRG) observers on the controversial second round of the
Ukrainian presidential elections challenges the widely-disseminated media
image of government-sponsored fraud at the expense of an untainted opposition
on the basis of first-hand reporting. Ukrainian Presidential Elections
- 2nd Round Preliminary Report
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- U.S. Money Helped Opposition in Ukraine by Matt Kelley
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- The Bush administration has spent more than $65 million
in the past two years to aid political organizations in Ukraine, paying
to bring opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko to meet U.S. leaders and helping
to underwrite exit polls indicating he won last month's disputed runoff
election.
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- Western aggression: How the US and Britain are intervening
in Ukraines elections by John Laughland
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- It is because of this ideological presupposition that
Anglo-Saxon reporting on the Ukrainian elections has chimed in with press
releases from the State Department, peddling a fairytale about a struggle
between a brave and beleaguered democrat, Yushchenko, and an authoritarian
Soviet nostalgic, the present Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovych. All facts
which contradict this morality tale are suppressed.
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- Election Fraud in America. Comparing Mythologies: The
US versus Ukraine by Michael Keefer
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- Imagine the sensation that would have ensued if a United
States Senator had declared, less than three weeks after the 2004 U.S.
presidential election, that "It is now apparent that a concerted and
forceful program of election-day fraud and abuse was enacted with either
the leadership or co-operation of governmental authorities." The story
would have made banner headlines around the world. As a matter of fact,
on November 22, 2004, BBC News attributed these very words to Republican
Senator Richard Lugar. However, Lugar was speaking in his capacity as Chairman
of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committeeand he was referring, not
to the U.S. presidential election of November 2, but to the Ukrainian presidential
election of November 21, 2004.
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- Shadow of Anti-Semitism over Ukraine's Disputed Election
by British Helsinki Human Rights Group
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- Western media and governments may have edited out the
manifestations of extreme nationalism and anti-Semitism which disfigure
the Ukrainian opposition's rabble-rousing but history will record that
in the run up to the disputed presidential elections, key opposition leaders,
including Viktor Yushchenko, Julia Timoshenko and Alexander Moroz, defended
anti-Semitic publications and accepted the backing of neo-Nazi groups as
well as US and EU and so-called civic societyNGOs
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- Neo-Nazi Organizations in the Ukraine by Liudmila Dymerskaya-Tsigelman
and Leonid Finberg
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- The political parties and movements of the post-Soviet
Ukraine developed their platforms during perestroika, when the processes
that led to the subsequent breakup of the Soviet Union were unleashed.
Both antisemitism and opposition to it became tools in a fierce ideological
and political struggle.
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- US campaign behind the Turmoil in Kiev by Ian Traynor
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- With their websites and stickers, their pranks and slogans
aimed at banishing widespread fear of a corrupt regime, the democracy guerrillas
of the Ukrainian Pora youth movement have already notched up a famous victory
- whatever the outcome of the dangerous stand-off in Kiev.
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- Funded and organized by the US government, deploying
US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and
US non-government organizations, the campaign was first used in Europe
in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.
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