We spoke of why there were caches in abandoned mines, and about guns on general.
I was told during the writing of this essay about breaking news. So far, they have arrested close to 1000 separatists, and in the replacing of the local authorities some were former governors. Some governors escaped. This is an ongoing process to purge and replace the entire Ukraine with only appointed lackeys of the neo-nazi nationalists.
As we chatted, she explained, as a teacher she could be lustrated. Essentially, in order to work there anywhere, you have to pass a political-purity test! You can even lie and swear allegiance to the party, but they will background check you, and see if you have written or spoken against them in the past. You would be fired at least, arrested at worst. This is going to begin with a MASS LUSTRATION starting in 2 weeks.
For the most part, she feels there are far, far too many of them in the Donetsk area for that to happen, but worries about friends back west. She thinks they would not provoke Russia by mass-ejecting so many from the workforce at once in the East. But cannot be sure of that, either.
In another humorous quip, she informed me they went door to door all over the country to raise money for their new military, and only raised enough for 1/2 of a tank... and that the majority of that money came from one psychiatric hospital. Even under all this stress, we laughed at the poetry of psycho neo-nazi supporters.
Mostly we talk of husbands and work, her PhD defense, the weather and our kids. She has a soft spot for animals. She is just like me in so many ways.
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Dmitri: "Yes, there is actually a war between two clans - and one group of oligarchs tries to take over business of others and they use nazi paramilitaries for this purpose. People are certainly frightened and it actually led to the secession of Crimea."
Another friend, Dmitri Kolesnik, is a leftist in a very dangerous time for leftists. His communications with me are far more pointed and political. His blog is here, and the English translator works quite well.
http://liva.com.ua/translate.html
He often cites this website, the heart of the leftist resistance in the Ukraine and a very worthy resource.
http://borotba.org/newsen.html
Note, his spelling of Maydan/Maidan differs from hers, in their translations to English... he is referring not to the park in Kiev where the protests took place, so much as what they are now calling the group that took over illegally there. The Nationalists, the Nazis, Svoboda.
From the 14th:
I have never taken the arm in hands. It's prohibited here only hunters can buy it after a lot of checking. Medical check and other. You are lucky - if we have it [could legally own guns] here they couldn't treat us like that.
I was told during the writing of this essay about breaking news. So far, they have arrested close to 1000 separatists, and in the replacing of the local authorities some were former governors. Some governors escaped. This is an ongoing process to purge and replace the entire Ukraine with only appointed lackeys of the neo-nazi nationalists.
Today the leader of Svoboda Tyagnibok told that they need to start lustration among all who work. Checking if they support Russia and repress them - firing and other.
As we chatted, she explained, as a teacher she could be lustrated. Essentially, in order to work there anywhere, you have to pass a political-purity test! You can even lie and swear allegiance to the party, but they will background check you, and see if you have written or spoken against them in the past. You would be fired at least, arrested at worst. This is going to begin with a MASS LUSTRATION starting in 2 weeks.
In another humorous quip, she informed me they went door to door all over the country to raise money for their new military, and only raised enough for 1/2 of a tank... and that the majority of that money came from one psychiatric hospital. Even under all this stress, we laughed at the poetry of psycho neo-nazi supporters.
Mostly we talk of husbands and work, her PhD defense, the weather and our kids. She has a soft spot for animals. She is just like me in so many ways.
***
Dmitri: "Yes, there is actually a war between two clans - and one group of oligarchs tries to take over business of others and they use nazi paramilitaries for this purpose. People are certainly frightened and it actually led to the secession of Crimea."
Another friend, Dmitri Kolesnik, is a leftist in a very dangerous time for leftists. His communications with me are far more pointed and political. His blog is here, and the English translator works quite well.
http://liva.com.ua/translate.html
He often cites this website, the heart of the leftist resistance in the Ukraine and a very worthy resource.
http://borotba.org/newsen.html
Note, his spelling of Maydan/Maidan differs from hers, in their translations to English... he is referring not to the park in Kiev where the protests took place, so much as what they are now calling the group that took over illegally there. The Nationalists, the Nazis, Svoboda.
From the 14th:
It means that we had a kind of riot of oligarchs too - they left ruling party (after government suspended to sign free-trade agreement) and joined opposition. Almost all the media were under their control and the Maidan protests were inspired by western NGOs and media (TV) as well. As usual our billionaires try to support different parties at once. Now many oligarchs were appointed by new government as regional governors (and that also contributed to the people's anger that inspired new - counter-rebellion against Maidan). Yesterday in the counter-rebellion in Donetsk 3 men were killed (members of Maidan). So, actually it's oligarchic neoliberal coup where nazis were used as paramilitary forces to overthrow government. Although now they in fact went out of control...
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