All information about Ukraine tends to orbit around the three main gravity centres…
By Olga Khzaryan
Position of the State Department:
Free people of Kiev threw down the dictatorship of Yanoukovich and now, nobody dare oppose them of squandering the country in mortgage to the World Bank and turning it into a rampart of NATO. Numerous victims of the military mission to suppress the East’s rebellion are just glitches in the growth of new democracy, essentially killed by Yanoukovich and Putin.
Western democracies and Western mass media make it a point that the people of the South-East of Ukraine, no matter what they say, aren’t humans at all. Most importantly, they’ll never be regarded as humans. Not even if every single one of them is massacred right in front of the cameras. There’s no way to break through this wall.
The events in Odessa (as well as in Mariupol, Krasnoarmeysk and other hot spots) are bound to be interpreted as follows: dictator Putin attacked the liberated Ukraine, his slaves committed there all sorts of horrible crimes which culminated in their getting killed by… themselves. Oh well, if it wasn’t they that killed them, then it was justifiable self-defense or “just happened” and is nobody’s fault.
Period. Case closed. This camp won’t budge.
Position of the Kremlin:
The Maidan insurgents are bums who took too many psychedelic oranges (don’t ask me what psychedelic oranges are), “gayropeans”, phychos and fascists. What kind of good, sensible people will throw down their corrupted leader – or for that matter protest at all? By their mass acts of rebellion, they have committed a symbolic original sin, turning their backs to sunlit mother-Russia. The way to deal with them is to play the “Farewell of the Slavic Wife” march, depict them as brutal animals, and purge their territories (if this fails, at least purge Bolotnaya Square).
These good fellows would have long started a full-blown massacre in Ukraine should the odds have not been against them. But the Russian Federation is no match to joint forces of the US and Europe, and if it becomes too arrogant, it will be economically crushed. Yet it is quite capable of making itself nasty. Russian nationalists get carried away at every turn of the road, even if Putin understands the setup and adjusts his calculations accordingly. This is because unlike them, Putin is not handicapped by believing in his own propaganda.
Position of the communists:
We accept the right of the people to rebellion and to choosing their economic allies. Also, we accept the right of the people to referendum and self-determination. We regret that at the Maidan, socio-democratic agenda with necessity fell prey to demagogy and nationalism, at an early stage. We have warned the working people – and we do so again – that the country is being degraded into a right-wing dictatorship, and that harsh consequences will follow the two-year credit programme accepted by the new government.
Both in Western and Eastern Ukraine, it was people’s yearning for social justice that drove the activism of the masses. Yet it is clear by now that at the Maidan, that yearning has been misused to propel the interests of the elite. The bottom of society failed to unite against the top. Consequently, the Ukrainians in the West of the country have succumbed to the illusion that the USA and the EU are gravely concerned about “freedom in Ukraine”, while people in the East believe that the Russian status-quo is worried about the “fortunes of the Russian-speakers”. In reality, all these two camps haggle about is on what terms to export capital and how to benefit from the civil war in Ukraine.
The deadlock of these two groups of bourgeoisie creates conditions for the emergence and successful development of the working people movement, which is unfolding at the Southeast. Therefore it is our strategy to encourage the local people who stand up for social justice and against fascism, to promote unity of the activists with democratic and social demands and in their fight with reactionary groups of the protest movement. We condemn and oppose the bloodbath military terror of Kiev that is being implemented with full support of the West, and military intervention of Moscow.
No war, except between the classes.
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http://liva.com.ua/tri-poziczii.html
