The Situation in the Ukraine. #3

For those who haven't seen, Watch

This is the shameless beating and humiliation of injured, burnt survivors of the fire in the Odessa trade union building. Watch:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d6e_1399200624

And also this:


Here is the stream from inside the building, where the cameramen make fun of the dead (I think it's this vid anyway), talking about 'Romeo and Juliet' when they find the corpse of a man and a woman together


And this fat fuck is shooting at the windows, while the building is burning. Think people would want to try and get out that way? Later this same murdered was caught talking on his phone about how he and his crew fended off the 'seperatists with their bare hands', while the seperatists were armed:



Here's another pic of some of some of the Maidanist militia firing at the building:


But even these vids don't capture some of the things I seen in the stream, where one of those lying on the ground battered tried to get on his knees and ask for something and in return some of the hooligans shouted a challenge in his face about whether he loves the Ukraine several times, his face was one of pure terror and then when he didn't answer in time he was battered some more.

It's true that some of the people, bystanders, people on the pro-Maidan side, were trying to save lives. Some on the pro-Maidan side covered people with their own bodies, so that they wouldn't be beaten to death, some came to the aid of the people trapped inside and tried to form ropes, etc... for them to climb down (only for these survivors to be mercilessly beaten when they did escape). There were doctor volunteers there, trying to save people, with some people blocking their paths and preventing lives being saved.
But on the whole, the mood was bloodthirsty, among the crowd - there were scant few voices of reason. In their majority - there were calls for 'jump back to Russia!' when people were climbing down, beatings of survivors and gloating over deaths. The same episode repeated even more fiercly in social media networks, many of the participants were boasting of their success, of the people they killed. One of the girls who took part, possibly mixing Molotov cocktails - said that on the one hand she is horrified by the faces of those killed, but that she also feels immense pride at her actions, saving the Ukraine (because the Ukr. government in fact encourages their country to be 'saved' in this way, by killing those who disagree with them).

On youtube, vkontakte, etc... the comments were vile. Photo albums were put up about the 'Russian shashlik/BBQ', 'roasted meat, anyone hungry?', etc... Some of the comment on youtube, hailing the deaths of scum seperatists and praising the perpetrators, have been getting upwards of 100 likes.
Here's a particularly vile example:

I'm not going to translate it. Those who can read Russian will read it, those who can't - probably not worth reading anyway

The first vid in particular, along with the vid of the Maidanist firing at the building, and all the molotov-cocktails being thrown - it all reminds me of an 80s Soviet WW2 movie called - Come and See (Idi i Smotri), about the partisan war in Belarussia; I saw it about 6-7 years ago for the first time.

There was a scene in which the main character, a 13-14 year old boy, ends up in a village just as its being visited by a German Einsetzgrupen, who promptly round up all the women & children younger than 12 in one large wooden building, and burn it to the ground, firing machine-gun fire into the building simultaneously; while laughing and cheering demonically. The kid himself climbs out of the building shortly before the massacre, the Germans drag him around a bit, put him on his knees, pose around him in a big squad and put a pistol to his head and then smile for a group photo. Soon as the photo is done, they let him go and leave him, moving on to other business.

At the time, I thought this whole scene was exaggerated. A typical Soviet-film art style; exaggeration for effect, and dehumanizing the Nazi enemy not necessarily for propaganda purposes (although that was part of it too), but for the artistic effect too. I mean I could understand how some people can be massacred like this, but surely not to the this jeering, and laughter, and celebration?
But now I'm sure that it was real, that this is exactly how these sorts of things happened, and we saw it again a couple days ago in Odessa.
No exaggeration, no hyperbole - just come and see the parallels for yourselves:

- News from the Western front!
Apparently Pravyj Sektor and the local police have acted pre-emptively in the Zakarpatiya region, and seized the 'House of the Carpathian Rusyn's' building there, which was being rented out by one of the active Rusyn organisations.
There is some chatter now, that the Rusyns/Hungarians might not wait until 11th May to start action, which was the deadline that their self-proclaimed leader Petro Getsko set for the Ukrainian government to start some negotiations or be kicked out.


- Italy is stating that it's ready to send peacekeeping forces to the Ukraine if such a decision is taken in the UN
http://ria.ru/world/20140504/1006495411.html

- Avakov is raging about the pro-Russian protestors caught yesterday being set free by the police and local prosecutor, instead of them being transferred to Kiev as ordered, as well as the Odessa police laying down their arms and refusing to carry out any orders whatsoever (no surprise, they've been blamed yet again and this time by both the pro-Russians who lost 40 people 2 days but also the government which is shifting all the blame on them too)
http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2014/05/4/7024348/

- New head of police has just arrived 3 hours ago and gave a speech an hour ago in Odessa, thanked the Pravyj Sektor forces, shouted the fascist slogan 'Slava Ukraine!' 3x times, then gave a speech in Ukrainian about restoring order, catching seperatists, etc... he then repeated some important parts of his speech in Russian too. He is from Ivano-Frankovsk, a far Western region; one of the 3 most Bandera-supporting ones, and was a participant at Maidan. He's been in the forces for over 30 years and has held a number of positions in different regions of the Ukraine, mostly western and central ones (full details here: http://ria.ru/world/20140504/1006523298.html#ixzz30lxUW7dr).
While he was wrapping up his speech some monkey climbed the door frame a few meters up of the building he was making a speech in front of, and switched off one of the light fixtures up there for no apparent reason. Then a bunch of Pravyj Sektor people in motorcycle helmets and knife-proof vests and camo, balaclavas - stepped up into the limelight and made speeches via the megaphone after he was done, well I didn't even pay attention honestly - they were just talking the regular BS.
All this happened on the Odessa vid stream about 1 hour ago (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/new-odessa), hopefully someone will put up a youtube vid in the next couple of hours.

- Ukrainian Pravyj Sektor (or perhaps Maidan hundreds) radicals calling to 'kill them all' earlier today. They are pissed off about the anti-Maidan protestors today:

Seperately, many threats have been made to burn all the anti-Maidan protestors alive a 2nd time if they try to seize the regional administration building.

- Loads of activity in Russia, from reports of Russian veterans of Chechnya and Afghanistan forming volunteer batallions and entering the Ukraine (http://rusvesna.su/news/1399211987), to Russian nationalist organisations forming their own groups and volunteers.
In the past week we've already heard about the Israeli battallion of ex-Soviets that's ready to come and also the Crimean militia with its statement of entering and not taking any prisoners.
Kadyrov has stated that thousands are ready to volunteer from Chechnya and are waiting for the order and Putin's decision.
The Lugansk rebels have already broken the border today; they captured a border guard post or patrol and now have a cordon through which people and material could theoretically pass.
It's another matter though whether the Russian border guards will let anything through, and I doubt they will. Russia will no doubt keep things under control and if it decides to intervene, it will do so either in full with the involvement of its own armed forces - or not at all.
However, militias and volunteers could potentially make it to mainland Ukraine via a sea route from the Crimea

- Donetsk announces the creation of the 1st republican army regiment (I presume of the south-east army). Today the military commission building in Donetsk was captured by the rebels, and yesterday the military commission building in Lugansk was captured, along with a bunch of Ukrainian Nats Guard who at first resisted but after a firefight, agreed to give up their weapons and leave.
http://russian.rt.com/article/30548#ixzz30lIFSXrO
I will also remind that yesterday the DPR announced the issuing of firearms to background-checked people with passports, etc... So far the amount of people that will be issued firearms is limited, but it's a marked step up from the previous situation; until now the employment and equipping of firearms has been monopolized only by a small cadre of rebels with military and police backgrounds. But now it seems that they are getting serious about their army and forming auxiliary forces.

- Donetsk mayor has given up his powers to the anti-Maidan forces in the city, he has symbollically given the key to the building to the federalization supporters
http://ria.ru/world/20140504/1006525604.html#ixzz30m4fOs5d

- Some Lugansk or Donestk mines have shut-down operations yesterday and today. Apparently, miners from no less than 7 mines have risen to take up positions on checkpoints. A lot of these mines are still working so it seems that many of these miners will be doing this in their off-time
http://russian.rt.com/article/30541#ixzz30kq6P1kM

- Ukrainian military has ridden through Kramatorsk yesterday but it didn't capture it or dislodge the rebels, they pretty much just passed through, and the rebels took up their previous positions again. A CNN report even admited as much:

Similar stories in Slavyansk, other towns. There was a shootout in Konstantinovka yesterday but not many details. And the Urkainian military arrived in Mariupol but then it was under the control of Kiev anyway.
Looks like the latest (3rd) CTO operation has become bogged down again. I haven't heard of any Ukrainian progress or action today whatsoever, the initiative was with the rebels.
A report has come in that the Kramatorsk SBU building has been taken under the control of the Ukrainian Nats Guard today. And now apparently - it's on fire: http://russian.rt.com/article/30570#ixzz30mBpgzvl

- Big rally in Berlin yesterday (or perhaps the days prior?), with the Soviet anthem being played

There was a smaller rally in Frankfurt too, protesting the Ukrainian actions and supporting Russia.


- On the plus side it's expected that the Ukraine is expected to enter the top-5 in the Eurovision entries, possibly even win it due to the crisis. Bad news for Ukrainian government though - their Eurovision singer is a known anti-Maidan supporter; Maria Yaremchuk. She's from a central Ukrainian region not an eastern one, which makes it all the more embarassing I guess. Ukrainian government is reportedly trying to think up of a way to remove her.
http://lifenews.ru/news/132594