Censorship Makes Comeback As Stalin Monument Opens

Reform #5: Comrade Obama $talin will take care of press freedom.

After decades of damnation, the Steel Man who had murdered millions of innocent people won himself a magic resurrection.







His resurrection sent two of his elderly fans to the hospital and one to the graveyard. “She died a decent death, in front of Stalin,” as one fan put it at the opening ceremony in Zaporizhia.

On a hot sunny day, hundreds of Stalinists, anti-Stalinists and police attended the ceremony on the premises of the local Communist Party chapter.

Because the monument sits on private property, those who oppose it should stay away from it, MP Oleksiy Baburin (CPU-Zaporizhia) argues.



One fan donated Hr. 50K ($6K) to the Hr. 80K ($10K) monument cause. Petro “$13K Watch” Symonenko? No. Commie-friendly oligarch Grigorishin? Wrong again.

Meet Ivan Shekhovtsev, a WW II vet from Kharkiv dubbed the “lead investor” for his contribution. (IMHO, the term “lead investor” would raise a lot of questions from Stalin.)

One sign reads: “Arise, Stalin! Put some order!” It’s a deal! Let’s have some order. Let’s start with the commies in this oligarcommunist govt. Lead #1: Customs chief Ihor Kaletnyk. Let the NKVD ask him a few a questions, OK?

In the meantime, some Ukrainian reporters claim to have already experienced strokes of censorship. A report that criticized the government went down the drain, say the news people at Channel 1+1 in a public statement released Thursday.

After a closed-door beer summit with the reporters, Deputy Chief of Staff Hanna Herman said she found to signs of censorship.

And guess what? On Friday, eight STB reporters went public with censorship claims of their own.

The oligarchs run both channels.

Channel 1+1: owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, Ukraine’s third-richest man, of Israeli citizenship, who lives in Switzerland.

STB: owned by Viktor Pinchuk, Ukraine’s second-richest man, Kuchma’s son-in-law, a ‘Thinker’ according to Time magazine.

So how long before reporter killings become the norm again?

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Original source: http://tvi.ua

Ukraine WTO Accession Talks Show U.S. Against GM Labeling

The upcoming round in Ukraine’s WTO accession talks, to be held in Geneva on Oct. 25, may result in a tradeoff between membership and proper labeling for genetically modified products.

UP quotes a report in Liga that puts the U.S. as the chief opponent of proper labeling for its plethora of genetically modified exports.

Dear Uncle Sam, is freedom of information the price less powerful nations have to pay for free trade? What about the Golden Rule?