Ukraine (closed; covers till August 2014)

[mirhond]

if you're a good girl, I give you this:

Regards

Mike

Aww, Potyomkin's willage, thanks. Provided that you are good at history, I suppose you use the term ironically, because Potyomkin's willages were actual willages, not just empty carcasses with fancy frontfaces, and the term itself was invented to frame Potyomkin.

@OUTLAW 09

So mirhond living like the days of say 1973 with rancid butter sold to you by the EU, using a steel pick to see which loaf of bread was as hard as a rock, cold apartments heated with even poorer brown coal, and waiting in line for hours only to be told that what ever it was is gone and now going back to that is what Progress?

Slippery Slope Fallacy http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html
None of these terrrible things happened, yet.

What will destroy the system as you mentioned is in fact just why Putin made his moves in the Ukraine---namely "the Street".

I prefer marxist term "masses", besides "the Street" is useless against Putin &Co. I participated in 2011 winter protests, so when I came closer to a line of internal security troops, I discovered some dead-eyed guys who will spray the crowd with automatic gunfire without second thought. So, I'am quit. That's why "The Street" has nothing to do with current regime. Old-skool popular revolution has.

So it appears you are basically agreeing below that is better to suffer conditions that might make Russians enjoy living in say Zambia

I can't say for every Russian, but I, personally, would rather be mizerable, opressed but alive than free but dead.

Let's see---a Ukraine taught Communism for say 45 years

I've just made a historical discover! As far as I know, Ukraine was de-facto part of USSR from the wery beginning at 1922.

Ranting, raving and filling paper with words does not make a writer---- is an old Russian saying---the KGB saying is that it makes one a terrorist.

Ad Hominem Fallacy http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adhomine.html
Again, try to attack my argument, not my personality.

Enjoy the waiting in line at your bank for the coming weeks--

Appeal to Consequence of Belief Fallacy http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adconseq.html

Besides, my bank account is empty, I live from paycheck to paycheck, I have it in cash and I always pay cash. Banking may go to hell

I know you know this old Stalin/KGB saying;
"One person is a demonstration, Two people a riot and Three people a revolution"

No, never heard this. Provide a source, please.

By the way you forgot to mention that those that have a red banner on their arms could also be the old Guard Soviet auxiliary police

Who have a red banner? Are you talking about the photo with Sturmabteilung or about the video with Hitlerjugend? If I missed something, please, correct me.

carl, do you even understand what fallacy is? You are the native English-speaker, you must know the term.
Please, read the http://www.fallacyfiles.org/whatarff.html it will discipline your mind, improve your thinking, reasoning and arguing skills. Or start from fighting cognitive biaseshttp://www.overcomingbias.com/about at least you will be aware of it. Learn from Firn - his statements usually probabilistic, it means he is a good rationalist.