"The mighty Dnieper River."
Where WWIII will begin according to a famous Jewish prophet.
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And to fulfill prophecy one must look at the past first:
"Crisis stirs old fears for Ukraine’s Jews; Clashes and Crimea tension worry community that struggled to rebuild" by David Filipov | Globe Staff March 16, 2014
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — Behind the glimpses of ordinary life lies a terrible history: The merry-go-round stands on the spot where in 1941, 11,000 Jews were rounded up by Nazi occupiers and taken away to be shot.
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They were even more rabid than the Nazis.
Across the square, the podium of a toppled monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin recalls the decades of oppression that followed the war and the atheist Communist regime that suppressed Jewish religion and culture.
That's a LIE!
See: Secret Facts - Soviet & Jews
What do you mean you have never heard of Kaganovich and Yagoda?
Now, fear of war has returned to Dnepropetrovsk, carried by the tensions surrounding Sunday’s referendum in Crimea....
With Russian forces massing along the frontier, worries run especially deep among the city’s Jewish population of 40,000 to 50,000 — including thousands of Holocaust survivors — which has enjoyed a renaissance in recent decades in large part thanks to efforts by Boston’s Jewish community....
Self-centered s*** full of pride.
The foreboding mood was palpable Friday at the Jewish center of this rambling city of 1 million bisected by the mighty Dnieper River. A gleaming 22-story complex serves as a sprawling beacon of the Jewish revival. It combines a synagogue, a luxury hotel, shops, two convention halls, kosher restaurants, and art exhibits.
Some people at the center said they were considering leaving for good.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has declared that he will use his military to protect people in Ukraine from those whom he refers to as ultranationalists who illegally seized power when they chased the pro-Moscow president from power last month.
And the THIRD ANTICHRIST has thus been IDENTIFIED according to the Jewish narrative!
“I don’t need protection, I don’t want to live in Russia, and I don’t know anyone who wants to live in Russia,” said Tatyana Boicheva, 70, a children’s music teacher whose brother lives in Jerusalem. She was at the center to pick up special food parcels being handed out to pensioners and World War II veterans for the Purim holiday.
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Now we see why they have a hard-on for Putin.
Boicheva experienced Soviet anti-Semitism firsthand. She wanted to study math or medicine out of high school, she said, but was refused because she was Jewish....
Boicheva’s reservations were not limited to Putin. She cited the alliance of the new Ukrainian government with a nationalist party whose members venerate a World-War II-era partisan leader, Stepan Bandera, seen in Russia and eastern Ukraine as a Nazi collaborator.
I was told there were no such characters and they are all good guys.
“All of Europe condemns Fascism. How did these people come to power,” said Solomon Flaks, 87, head of an organization with an office in the center, the Jewish World War II Veterans Council, who has spent the past 20 years documenting the military service of Jews in the war against Nazi Germany.
Historians here said 25,000 Jews from Dnepropetrovsk were drafted into the Red Army, and 10,000 were killed in action. But for 50 years, the Soviet regime refused to acknowledge their service as part of a general policy to diminish the role of Jews in Soviet society (the Soviets also refused to publicly acknowledge Jewish victims of the Holocaust).
The city’s Jewish identity suffered in myriad other ways....
SIGH! Wah, wah, wah, whine, whine, whine.
An example of Americans learning from Ukraine took place in late February, when supporters of the Kiev protest against then-President Viktor Yanukovych tore down the Lenin statue. The next morning, Emilia Diamant of Hebrew College in Newton, who was leading a group of Boston-area high school students on a weeklong winter camp at the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish day school, took her charges into the square.
So it was and has been just what bloggers are saying: this is a Jewish coup.
“There was a lively debate between the two sides, pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian,” Diamant said. She said she told her group, “ ‘someday your kids will study this, and you will tell them – I was there.’ We were there for one of the turning points, for a historic world moment.”
If older Jews worry about which position to take up along the divide between Russians and Ukrainians, some younger Jews see in the crisis an opportunity.
Brez remembers being mocked in his school days in the 1980s, when he was the only Jew in his class. The teachers reinforced it.
“I felt like a monkey in a cage,” he said. “I had to fight. And I cried.”
Now, he said: “That kind of official anti-Semitism is almost never felt. It’s a miracle how much it has changed.’’
That will change with the return on the neo-Nazi fa$ci$ts brought to power by the U.S-engineered coup (remember Nuland and the Estonian communiques?).
Amid the unease, Brez said he dreams that the crisis will usher in a new era in Ukraine.
He noted that the new governor of Dnepropetrovsk, a Jewish media, metals, and banking magnate who is Ukraine’s third-richest man, has Russians and Ukrainians in his administration, and works with members of far-right parties.
Are you f***ing kidding me?
“These parties are moderating their positions,” Brez said. “There’s such a feeling of Ukrainian national pride that wasn’t there.”
“Up until now, I could say I’m a citizen of Ukraine,” he said. “Now, I want to say I’m proud to be a Ukrainian who feels freedom and dignity to be a Jew.”
(Blog editor gags)
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Oh, boo-hoo-jhoo.
Russia just made the first move:
"Russian soldiers seize natural gas terminal; US, EU poised to impose sanctions" by David M. Herszenhorn, Andrew E. Kramer and Peter Baker | New York Times March 16, 2014
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It shows.
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Tensions mounted on the eve of a secession referendum in Crimea as helicopter-borne Russian forces made a provocative incursion just beyond the peninsula’s regional border to seize a natural gas terminal while US and European officials prepared sanctions to impose on Moscow as early as Monday.
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"The paid provocateur thugs are already threatening to blow up the Russian pipelines on Ukrainian territory and the EU is making contingency plans
even if the pipelines stay intact but Ukraine can't pay its bills to
Gazprom. It seems to be a losing proposition for the EU and Ukraine. Who
benefits? (h/t)."
The military operation by at least 80 troops landing on a slender sand bar just across Crimea’s northeast border seemed part of a broader effort to strengthen control over the peninsula before a vote Sunday on whether its majority Russian-speaking population wants to demand greater autonomy from Ukraine or break completely and join Russia. Whatever its goals, it sent a defiant message to the United States and Europe and underscored that a diplomatic resolution to Russia’s recent takeover of Crimea remains elusive.
The raid came as US and European diplomats essentially forced Russia to veto a UN Security Council resolution declaring the Sunday referendum illegal. Western diplomats hoped the result would reinforce Russia’s growing international isolation. Russia cast the only vote against the resolution; even China, its traditional ally on the council, did not vote with Moscow but abstained, an indication of its unease with Russia’s violation of another country’s sovereignty.
They must feel the way the U.S. does when they have to cast a veto for Israel.
US and European officials readied lists of Russians to penalize after the referendum, including possibly vital members of President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. Among the Russians under consideration for Western sanctions, according to officials, are Sergei K. Shoigu, the defense minister; Sergey B. Ivanov and Vladislav Surkov, two of Putin’s closest advisers; Alexei Miller, the chief executive of Gazprom, the state energy giant; and Igor Sechin, head of the oil company Rosneft.
The sanctions would ban the targets from traveling to Europe or the United States and freeze any assets they had in either place. Western officials said they do not plan to sanction Putin himself, at least at this point, because he is a head of state, nor do they intend to target Sergey V. Lavrov, the foreign minister, because he needs to travel if there are any future diplomatic talks.
Moreover, US and European officials said President Obama and his European counterparts may not start with the list of Putin confidants in whatever sanctions are imposed immediately after the referendum, so as to have the means to further escalate their response should Russia continue to press its seizure of Ukrainian territory. Instead, they may start with lower-level officials, military leaders, business tycoons, or parliamentarians.
These alleged sanctions are a joke!
Obama’s Cabinet secretaries and top advisers huddled in the White House on Saturday to discuss their strategy, joined by Secretary of State John Kerry.
The deescalator?
The degree of sanctions and the exact timing may depend on how Moscow reacts immediately after the referendum, which is almost universally expected to approve seceding from Ukraine and becoming part of Russia, officials said. If Putin moves promptly to initiate annexation, that would trigger immediate action, but if he holds back and leaves room for talks, Washington and Brussels may defer.
And not a peep when Israel does it.
Russia left little impression of backing down Saturday. Russian forces made a show of added strength here in Simferopol, the regional capital, stationing armed personnel carriers in at least two locations in the city center and parking two troop carriers outside the headquarters of the election commission.
The more provocative move, however, was the seizure of the gas terminal near a town called Strelkovoye, which drew new threats of a military response from the Ukrainian government. Until now, it has refrained from responding in force to Russian actions, but it sent troops Saturday to surround the gas terminal, though there were no immediate indications of any shots being fired, according to a Ukrainian news service quoting local police.
In Kiev, the Foreign Ministry said Ukraine “reserves the right to use all necessary measures” to stop what it called “the military invasion by Russia.”
The White House suggested the move only increased the likelihood of sanctions.
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Related:
Crimea votes on whether to secede from Ukraine
Tensions erupt in Ukrainian city
Look jwho is the envoy.
Agent provocateurs, anyone?
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Crimea votes yes; push to join Russia spreads
