Pro-Russian Protesters in Ukraine

Pro-Russian Protesters in Ukraine Dream of Soviet Glory Days, after the a takeover of public buildings and a “declaration of independence” in major East Ukraine cities, the streets are quiet, but the mood is ugly.

I have been wondering 

how long it would take for the Russians throughout Ukraine to demand, 

they all be put under Russian control. 

MOST of Ukraine is Russian and 

they long to be part of Russia, NOT the west!

DONETSK, Ukraine—If you stand on Shevchenko Boulevard outside Donetsk City Hall, which was stormed by around a thousand pro-Russian activists on Sunday, you start to question the reality of modern geopolitics. Has the Cold War really ended? The scene is a vista of Soviet flags and iconography; Stalin smirks at me from flags banners; the color red dominates my eye line while the blue and yellow of Ukraine is barely in evidence. Just around the corner a huge bronze statue of Lenin looms over the city’s main square.

Naturally the color is red dominated. 

The Ukraine only has a few pro western people!

I feel like I am in the 1980s as I make my way through the crowds, exploring this latest chapter in the Ukraine crisis that has upset the equanimity of Europe and the United States. “Where are you from?” they demand. “Americanski! Americanski!” A few scream at me. “Nyet, Ya Anglichanin” [No, I am British], I reply with a pre-prepared phrase. This doesn't really improve things. Several of the younger men around me debate whether they should hit me, which is worrisome because there are only about half a dozen police present, and there are rumors that many have joined the protesters.

What does it tell you when 

even the police have become,

 part of the pro Russian movement?

The crowd is not violent but the atmosphere is ugly.  Hundreds of men wearing balaclavas and surgical masks stand around holding bats and sticks, talking amongest themselves, drinking, smoking and glowering. An acrid smell of smoke hangs in the air. In front of the City Hall building hundreds of tires have been piled up to form a barricade that is manned by yet more masked men. Dozens of protesters stand on the building’s balcony just above a banner that stretches the length it with the “People’s Republic of Donbass [the Donetsk area]” written across it.

Even with this, 

 the West wants to 

interfere in this Russian movement. 

WHY? 

Is it that 

we think our democracy is better than theirs?

The protesters have spelled out their demand: they want secession from Ukraine or at the very least a referendum. They want to be Crimea. As soon as the protesters stormed the building on Sunday they declared the region an independent republic; many of them have called for Russia to send a protective military force into the region.

I have said many times before,
 that if there is a referendum,
 the vote will be overwhelmingly for Russia 
like it was in Crimea. 
That is why the protesters are
not afraid to call for the vote!

Here in Donetsk, close to the Russian border, Russia’s influence and ability to influence events is considerable. Session demonstrations have also started in nearby Karkiv and Lugansk. Moscow has urged the Ukrainian government not to intervene militarily for fear of sparking a civil war and it claims it is motivated by concern for Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population. Meanwhile, Kiev accuses Moscow of trying to destabilize the country and claims that many of the protesters are provocateurs in its pay.


Anger mingles with a sense of victimization on Donetsk’s streets, but the overriding emotion is one of mawkish nostalgia. This last accusation is at the heart of pro-Russian grievances here. Several protesters are at pains to say they have not been paid by anyone and are indigenous to Donetsk. They have, they say, not been bused in from anywhere. Their anger is palpable. But many of the protesters seem too organised and too well equipped to be merely the result of a spontaneous eruption of the citizenry. 

"Not been bused in to cause the protest?" 

So what if they were. 

Here in the US 

there have been many cases 

of people being 

bused in to cause an event. 

Example; 

the people wanting to integrate the south!

The people here claim they have been victimized by a hostile media and a gangster neo-Nazi government in Kiev. I see flyers of crudely photocopied images of Ukraine’s President Oleksandr Turchynov with a swastika scrawled across his forehead. They say that the government in Kiev has not been elected and that they will boycott the upcoming presidential elections.

Does "victimized by a hostile media

"sound familiar? 

Obama has the media in total control. 

He would not have been elected twice or 

been able to do his dirty work without them.

Kiev and the Euro Maidan revolution are reviled here. Every five minutes or so a great roar of “Ro-Si-Ya! Ro-Si-Ya!” goes up and old ladies wave their handbags in the air while their masked counterparts wave their bats and sticks in accompaniment. Hatred for international media is intense but not, it seems, universal. Nearby a Russia Today television crew is filming and a cry of “Russia Today Tells The Truth! Russia Today Tells The Truth!” spreads through the crowd.



As the demonstration winds down I make my way through the wide streets of central Donetsk. Masked men gather on corners; a couple of teenage protesters have drunk themselves into a stupor on a bench near a 24-hour pub and the avenues are quiet once more.

WE THE PEOPLE of America 

MUST tell our congressman 

to stay the hell out of Russian business!