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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #675 on: February 21, 2014, 02:32:00 pm »

I think the wings are opposite in the US and other parts of the world.
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #676 on: February 21, 2014, 02:33:28 pm »

just how did ukrainians and hungarians manage to get in any sort of negative situation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpatho-Ukraine
Some Hungarian nationalists do want that territory :)
But generally Hungary is one of neighbors we are friendly with, as well as Romania (but Romanian nationalist have claims on Ukrainian territory, too)
Plus Ukrainan troops did participate in suppressing 1956 (In the same time some remains of UPA fought on Hungarian side)
And I am speaking not more about Ukrainians vs Hungarians but Ukrainian far rights vs Hungarian far-rights. Far rights of neighboring countries usually not very friendly and call each other nazi and chauvinists :)

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Now Right Sector is probably the enemy of the government, opposition, and all the foreign ministers.
We shall see. But I am rather sure that popular support is on the Right Sector side. I witnessed a huge rage in Ukrainian Internet over that "let Yanukovitch rule some more time" deal.
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #677 on: February 21, 2014, 02:35:00 pm »

I think the wings are opposite in the US and other parts of the world.
Well, some of the symbols and rhetoric in this video are what Neo-Nazis here are using and saying. I think fascism/nazism is universally accepted as right-wing.
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #678 on: February 21, 2014, 02:38:36 pm »

I think the wings are opposite in the US and other parts of the world.
Well, some of the symbols and rhetoric in this video are what Neo-Nazis here are using and saying. I think fascism/nazism is universally accepted as right-wing.

A bit artificially, by the logic of being against the left, mostly. This is a very messy affair and let's not get into that tangent.
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #679 on: February 21, 2014, 02:43:03 pm »

I think the wings are opposite in the US and other parts of the world.
Well, some of the symbols and rhetoric in this video are what Neo-Nazis here are using and saying. I think fascism/nazism is universally accepted as right-wing.

A bit artificially, by the logic of being against the left, mostly. This is a very messy affair and let's not get into that tangent.
Oh yeah, I really don't want to start another Nazi tangent here. But it's not artificial, it's after the classical definition of left and right after the French Revolution. It's just that in their extremes left and right look pretty much the same.
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #680 on: February 21, 2014, 03:12:12 pm »

I think the wings are opposite in the US and other parts of the world.
Well, some of the symbols and rhetoric in this video are what Neo-Nazis here are using and saying. I think fascism/nazism is universally accepted as right-wing.

A bit artificially, by the logic of being against the left, mostly. This is a very messy affair and let's not get into that tangent.
Oh yeah, I really don't want to start another Nazi tangent here. But it's not artificial, it's after the classical definition of left and right after the French Revolution. It's just that in their extremes left and right look pretty much the same.

I know the classical definition, and monarchists (and aristocracy in general) and Nazis weren't particularly fond of each other. Like I said, it's a messy, complicated thing that arose mostly because of a grossly outdated system of describing political beliefs, so let's end that tangent.
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #681 on: February 21, 2014, 03:21:57 pm »

Sure, let's end that tangent. Just wanted to say that - while messy - there is an internationally accepted classification.

Anyway - protesters on Maidan threaten to storm the parliament if the president doesn't resign until Saturday 10 o'clock.
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« Reply #682 on: February 21, 2014, 03:23:51 pm »

I think the wings are opposite in the US and other parts of the world.
Well, some of the symbols and rhetoric in this video are what Neo-Nazis here are using and saying. I think fascism/nazism is universally accepted as right-wing.

A bit artificially, by the logic of being against the left, mostly. This is a very messy affair and let's not get into that tangent.
Oh yeah, I really don't want to start another Nazi tangent here. But it's not artificial, it's after the classical definition of left and right after the French Revolution. It's just that in their extremes left and right look pretty much the same.

Now I feel offended :) French revolution is best thing ever happened to western world. `Spectrum` and other shenanigans is not
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #683 on: February 21, 2014, 03:37:36 pm »

protesters on Maidan threaten to storm the parliament if the president doesn't resign until Saturday 10 o'clock.
Wonder who/how many protesters are taking this position. Is it just the far right, or more general?
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #684 on: February 21, 2014, 03:40:13 pm »

protesters on Maidan threaten to storm the parliament if the president doesn't resign until Saturday 10 o'clock.
Wonder who/how many protesters are taking this position. Is it just the far right, or more general?
From what correspondents are saying it's pretty general. There are radicals on Maidan too, but the ordinary people also want Yanukovych gone.
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« Reply #685 on: February 21, 2014, 03:42:38 pm »

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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #686 on: February 21, 2014, 04:02:14 pm »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpathian_Ruthenia

Wait, that's rightful Czechoslovak clay! :P
What? You want to share newly annexed territory with pesky Czechs?

Speaking about annexations
True one would demand Poland from the sea to the sea!



PS. Strange that I can joke in times like that... But I can
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #687 on: February 21, 2014, 04:06:50 pm »

True one would demand Poland from sea to sea!
Even radicals can be modest.  ;) He did label central Ukraine as a Polish colony though, so maybe he is not that modest after all.

I have to correct what I said earlier: The ultimatum until Saturday was made by speakers of the Right Sector, who also doesn't want to disarm.
People on Maidan applauded that though and, from what correspondents are saying, agree that Yanukovych should step down.
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« Reply #688 on: February 21, 2014, 04:18:59 pm »

Personally, if I was among the protestors, there would be NO WAY I would disarm until I'd seen actual stuff, actually done.

Giving up all of their trump cards, their momentum, and their fallbacks in exchange for what is, quite honestly, a fairly limited promise, followed by keeping the guy who previously lied to them and tried to suppress them in power, does NOT seem like a wise decision for anyone.
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Re: Uprising in Ukraine
« Reply #689 on: February 21, 2014, 04:23:21 pm »

Hehe. Looks like I'll have my summer holidays in Crimea without border-passing  :)

BTW, I heard something like "Berkut is fed up with all dat shit and leaves the parlament building". Sound like unproven bullshit, however.
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