To those who crossed the Dnipro in 1943 and died trying.
40 years of work leaves you with $100/month, not enough to pay for utilities.
The rest goes to first-class citizens who worship all things Soviet.
Woman 3: I, Valentyna Volodymirivna, want to particularly address Lukyanov and Chechetov: What do I have to do — how should I get down on my knees before you — so I’LL NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN HERE? HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT, HUH? YOU SHAMELESS ONES! I’ve worked for 40 years, I’m disabled due to cancer, and my father died during the first days there, in the war. He wants to see your flag? He doesn’t want to see this humiliation that you cause us! And you think he has interest in your flag! You can put it wherever you want, put it on, go out, have fun, get drunk in your palaces! But don’t touch us. And you [opposition] keep fighting. As sick as we are, we’ll help you. Trust us. And our grandchildren stand ready to help you. So that we’ll never have to see and hear these “wand wavers” [imitates Chechetov] — illiterate “wand wavers” — because all they have is their big mouths, down to their knees! I’m sorry, I’m sorry.
5:37-6:42
She knew he wouldn’t show up.
She even made this truth-against-mud commercial to capitalize on his absenteeism.
Once in the studio, Tymoshenko made the best of her one-upwomanship. Enjoy these three videos!
Video 1
Tymoshenko does not rule out the possibility of Yanukovych joining her and discusses the benefits of staring at a vacant spot.
It’s just important that the vacant spot would not then occupy the presidential post in this country. That would be very unfortunate and wrong.
And believe me, all this huge false advertising, all these huge false billboards — it’s just falsehood, as is any advertising.
In this Channel 1+1 report, Volodymyr Chermoshentsev, an ethnic Russian, recalls his past: He fought in the UPA.
After the Bolsheviks killed his father, amid the man-made famine in his native Povolzhye village in 1933, he and his mother and aunt found the situation even worse in Ukraine, settling in Crimea.
Captured by the Germans in 1942, he escaped captivity only to be captured again and then freed by the UPA, which he joined.
Because, naturally, he spoke Russian, the UPA initially treated him with suspicion but finally appointed him an aide to a UPA commanding officer.
The UPA mainly fought the NKVD, not the Red Army, Chermoshentsev says.
Captured and tortured by the NKVD, he managed to escape to the Crimea, to his mother, and later got 10 years for stealing grapes and dodging the draft. Had the Soviet authorities learned about his UPA involvement, they would have probably executed him.
After Ukraine became independent, Chermoshentsev’s story became the plot of a UPA book of memoirs.
Volodymyr Chermoshentsev: I took an oath to love Ukraine, the Ukrainian people. I’m even proud of being called a Banderite — yes I am — a Banderite, not a nobody, not a somebody-for-somebody, but for Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) that fought both Hitler and Stalin during WW II turned 67 yesterday.
As always, the UPA vets who gathered in downtown Kyiv drew catcalls from the Communists protesting nearby.
In this Channel 1+1 footage, the first UPA vet decries being a “second-class citizen,” under-recognized and under-compensated by the state of Ukraine, for which he fought. The second one, a bit more cheerful, touts a German-made MP-40 submachine gun, also widely used by Soviet partisans.
On the other side of the barricade, the first Communist lady refuses to calls them humans and the second one calls them “up to elbows in blood.” A Red Army vet emphasizes that it was he, not the UPA, who defended and liberated Ukraine.
Toward the end of the first footage, a Ukrainian Navy officer calls for reconciliation between Red Army vets and UPA vets, citing civil war-ravaged Spain as an example: “They fought for Ukraine, and it’s important.”
The footage ends with the rallying call of Ukrainian nationalists: “Glory to the nation! Death to the enemies!”
Turbulent, violent and divisive, history doesn’t heal easily. Elderly people cannot be reconciled against their will. But they certainly do deserve recognition and respect from current and future generations.
The thousands of UPA Ukrainians who fought for their native land deserve it no less than the millions of Red Army Ukrainians who fought for theirs.
Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/135952.html
Original source: http://tsn.ua
On September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jews perished in the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, machine-gunned by the Nazis, in what became the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust.
Later, thousands of Gypsies, Ukrainians and other people followed the Jews into Babyn Yar, including 621 members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and poetess-activist Olena Teliha. Altogether, an estimated 70,000-120,000 people lie buried in the mass grave.
On September 29, 2009, President Yushchenko and Premier Tymoshenko attended the Babyn Yar Memorial.
To bring the tragedy alive, local actors staged a short historical reenactment. A monument depicting a scene from Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel was opened.
Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/134414.html
http://www.tvi.ua
http://deathcamps.org/occupation/byalbum/list00.html
http://kiyany.obozrevatel.com/news/2007/2/1/27623.htm
http://www.pravda.com.ua/ru/news/2007/9/29/64522.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
On May 9, Ukraine celebrates the victory over Nazi Germany.
We lost 7 million men, women, and children in WW II, approximately one-third of the total casualties borne by the Soviet Union.
This number does not include the thousands of Ukrainian Americans and Ukrainian Canadians who fought in the European and Pacific theaters.
May the lives they lost and sacrificed never be forgotten. May the heroes who fought for their native land, through the cannon fodder reality of that war and into today’s poverty, never be forgotten.
For me, it’s always been a day of remembrance, a day of thanksgiving and — as I grew up and learned more history — a day of reconciliation.
On this warm sunny day, I took a walk to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Park of Glory, like I did last year. Then, passing through the Holodomor Memorial, I proceeded to the WW II Memorial.
WW II veterans descending into Arsenalna Station
It's their day. People greet them with flowers and thank them.
The Union of Left-Wing Forces
Soviet Navy
Entering the Communist sector
This day also serves as a forum for Communists, Stalinists and Russian imperialists.
“No Fascism in Ukraine!”
“Capitalism brought tragedy to Ukraine. Solution: reviving the socialist society. Down with capitalism!”
Good point but wrong solution.
Nash BTR vpered letit
Sovietman
He does have a point about Ukraine currently being a criminal state with no future. The sad thing is, people like him helped make it happen.
The Usual Suspects: Yushchenko, Bandera, Shukhevych
“Thanks to the USSR and the Red Army, Ukraine was liberated from the Nazi-Fascist invaders.”
Was it because of Stalin, or despite him, that we won?
The All-Ukrainian Union of Soviet Soldiers
Thousands lie buried on the Dnipro River bed. They died liberating Kyiv from the Nazis in November 1943.
Left-bank Kyiv
“Glory to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!”
The Holodomor Memorial
Gate Church of the Trinity at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
Descending into the WW II Memorial
“Their sacrifice will live forever. Their names are immortal”
Mother Motherland
Look who's here!
The Eternal Flame
Same guy
“Eternal glory to the heroes!”
Greetings from President Yushchenko
