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Q: What is really going on in your part of the world?
A: The events in our region can be described as a gangster-police
putsch, presented in “people’s” wrapping. The whole violent wing is
represented by former and current employees of the MVD [Ministry of the
Interior], former soldiers, paratroopers, and military specialists, with
the support of petty and less petty criminals and unemployed marginal
elements. It can’t be called an uprising of Russian nationalists,
because until these events the nationalists’ strength and influence
hardly outweighed that of our own movement. You can judge the
nationalists’ numbers by looking at the “Russian parade” that took place
in Donetsk in November of 2013. Russian nationalists mobilized all their
support for that. But in the recent events the nationalists happened to
be in the right place at the right time, and now they provide political
cover for the openly police-run state of the Donetsk People’s Republic
(DPR). The mass character of the anti-Maidan movement is conditioned by
significant financial and armed support from local “businesspeople” and
strongmen. And of course from the Ukrainian bureaucracy and
citizen-nationalists, who let themselves be carried away by the turns of
events and by the enormous information war that is carried out in the
mass media and on online social networks; by the inaction of the police;
and especially by the commercial interests of various groups.
full:
http://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/a-gangster-police-putsch-presented-in-peoples-wrapping/
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