Valeria Novodvorskaya: Normal Collaborationist
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 6:09PM I love the comedy! We had angry Platon and now this creature is providing entertainment. The original is even better...
Recently we had flown to Tbilisi via Kiev, upon arrival in Kiev I had immediately put on an orange scarf. But in the end I sat there alone in an orange scarf. (1)
Today Ukraine betrayed not only herself but us, Russian democrats as well. We also did a lot here back in 2004. We were wearing orange scarfs and distributing agitation leaflets on Tverskaya ( Moscow Street), we were on CNN and the Kremlin outlawed us. We had not betrayed Yushchenko. Yuschenko was betrayed by Ukrainians on whose behalf he worked, whom he attempted to bring into NATO and the EU, and tried to re-establish historical truth. (2)
Now the Russian government is happy about Yanukovych's victory. Russian government's first steps towards the new government will go as far as Ukrainians will allow. Moscow comes where there exist a national vacuum, where people are unsure where to go, where they don't know their own language. If you decided not to go to Maidan, Moscow will make sure it will get to that place which you didn't go to. (3)
Just now, under the auspices of Moscow, Ukraine voted for a man who cannot be called an adherent of national ideas. Demoting of Yulia Timoshenko went quite smoothly through the parliament, without coalition scandals. (4) Some members of the Yulia Timoshenko Bloc were even bought, how else can such strange behaviour be explained?
Moscow already cut off two pieces from Georgia. For some time now a map with a green line separating Eastern and Western Ukraine hanged in the offices of Moscow's generals. They are planning, if not annexation of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, an establishment of a future protectorate, which will dance to Moscow's tune and play second violin next to her. (5)
Of course Yanukovych will try to seize something in relationship with the West as well as in relationship with Moscow. Most probably he will not behave that stupidly as the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. I mean, he will not try to establish a dictatorship. He will hardly attempt to kill Viktor Yushchenko, the way some were killed in Belarus. He will hardly attempt to take away the flag and anthem from Ukraine as Lukashenko did in Belarus. The westerners (6) will not allow it.
But he will disunite Ukraine with the help of European charter on languages. He will immortalise the Russian language as regional for Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, in order to prevent Ukraine from becoming a unified, nation state, fully independent, in order to save the link binding it to imperial Russia. And all will applaud him, including the EU. Also human rights defenders will applaud him. But, this will be your grave.
If one is to talk about Yanukovych's personality, his character, catches, suffice to say that the Russian government also didn't graduate from officer corps high. Putin and Medvedev are also quite mediocre, they are content with Yanukovych's level of development. Putin and Medvedev met Ramzan Kadyrov in trainer pants in Kremlin. (7) Yanukovych fits well in their Kremlin elite (8).
Your president is a common collaborationist, they love such people in Kremlin.
1) Oh you poor thing, out of fashion aren't we?
2) Historical truth? Given that Novodvorskaya is herself Jewish, I simply do not understand her attitude towards Yushchenko's battle for 'historical 'truth.' I guess ends (having a pro-Western leader in power) justify the means (having a Nazi pro-Western leader in power).
3) Maidan is the central square in Kiev which in 2004 was the scene of the Orange charade. I think Novodvorskaya expected a repetition this time.
4) 'без скандалов, коалиций' WTF? Is it just me or does this construction look awkward?
5) To play second violin simply means: to be rendered a second-rate satrapy.
6) Meaning Western Ukrainians most probably.
7) I love when Russian liberals talk about class.
8) The actual word used here is малину
Some closing remarks
Does anyone have any questions about why the Russian liberals are such a marginal group lacking any influence? Also notice how this, so called human rights defender does not view the rights of Russians as legitimate.
Reader Comments (5)
Novodvorskaya is a crazy even by liberast standards.
The really funny part is the bit about "historical truth." The real historical truth about Bandera, for instance, is that he came to Ukraine in the train of the Wehrmacht, whose mission was the extermination of "Slavic subhumans." Ukrainians were decidedly in that category... Or Yushchenko's unceasing ranting about a very flexible number of Ukrainians dead seventy years while ignoring Ukrainians dying now. Perhaps he just didn't care to know that while "Soviet genocide" left 52 million Ukrainians, there are only 46 million now...
@rkka
Actually real revisionist historians who have studied the archives say that 1 million people were sentenced to death under Stalin’s rule by NKVD execution order and a Gulag prison population of 2 1/2 million which includes people actually guilty of real crimes.
I you really think about it if they killed that many people prior to WW2 with an estimate of 40 million people then it should be easy to find the millions of bodies or some credible news reports of this happening at the time as due to the Russian winters the ground is hard.
Or why there was such a strong Soviet resistance if they were be exterminated wholesale.
In reality the main cause of death was due to large outbreaks of diseases. The Rockefeller institute with the Red Cross documented a large scale epidemic across Europe in Poland Russia and China. Hence the stacks and shipping of bodies to prevent disease.
Most of the “research” done on investigating Stalin era in Russia is done by a NED funded organisation called Memorial often quoted by foreign Professors and holds exhibits highlighting totalitarianism and history of Soviet repression which includes releasing a pamphlet of anti-Semitism in the USSR and claiming bodies found in the border area of Belarus were victims of Stalin’s purges although the Nazis had a heavy presence there were 1 in 3 Belarusians lost their lives during WW2.
Good video of the post Soviet situation in Ukraine.
Actually it said that 70% of the Ukrainian population lives below the poverty line. Is this true?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVrl8mbge5c
Jack,
I am aware of the archival research that has revised inflated Cold War propaganda of 20-60 million Gulag/famine deaths before WWII to a far more realistic figure. I mean, the old figures just didn't add up. How could a country have supported an army of ~6 million taking very high casualties, from a population that had suffered that kind of loss before the war? And then that ravaged country harboring designs of world conquest?? Brainless. Utterly brainless. And yet, that's what passed for "thinking" about the USSR during the Cold War.
The scary thing, it hasn't gotten much better in the US, as shown by our blind Putin-phobia.