Fascists or working class kids that been sent to die by the state?
From what I have read (mainly on here or on rt admittedly) I was under the impression that the march was almost entirely Right Sector with football Ultras who had been bussed in.Were all those people on the ultras march fash then? I'm sure that a lot of them were just football fans or worried locals, same as the other side.
@ Kesher.
I prefaced my post like that because if I had just quoted the RT article some people would have said that it is a pro-Russia/pro-Putin mouthpiece.
Not really much there though.France 24 anyone?
They say that civilians in eastern Ukraine are now readying for civil war:
http://www.france24.com/en/20140505-civilians-lugansk-ready-civil-war/
This piece claims that the people who attacked the pro-march were identifiable by red armbands. After they shot at and killed people on that march they scarpered and didn't go to the building that was attacked. This, allied with the fact that some coppers had the same armband (as if the police and security services are not split down the middle as well - something we've been constantly reminded of on here) leads to the suggestion this was a pro-kiev provocation. So, presumably something like pictures of people in the building wearing those same red armbands and attacking those trying to defend them would rather damage - in fact, probably fatally undermine - the suggestion of a provocation?I know RT news has it's own pro-Russia agenda, but they are making what looks like a credible case that the gunmen who fired on the pro-Kiev march, sparking the subsequent attack on the Trade Union building, were provocateurs acting in conjunction with the Odessa police.
http://rt.com/news/156744-video-footage-odessa-fire/
I can't see where on that page is says "...Several thousand supporters of a united Ukraine..." etcOn the other side look at this bit of propaganda from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27280814
The piece you linked to hinges on that fact that these people - with police help - attacked the other march then disappeared. That they disappeared and didn't turn up at the attacked building seems now to be false. That the police helped them in their original attack is clearly true but is simply not evidence that they were working together for pro-ukranian ends a) it could simply mean that a) the police are split and some support the pro-Russians (as we are told every few days on here) and b) the later appearance of the red bands suggests that these actually were pro-russians, helped by pro-russian police. To suggest otherwise requires every single copper on duty that day to be militantly pro-ukranian and prepared to help launch an armed attack on the people they're supposed to be supporting, that would in all likelihood result in deaths on their side. Does anyone think that's a likely scenario? If so, on what basis? One more likely than the picture of pro-russians working together on the same basis that they have been doing in other cities across the south and east of the region?I wasn't really going by the red armbands, though I would think that the shooters with red armbands could have gone in to the Trade Union building too, even if they were agent provocateurs.
I was more influenced by the footage of what looked like a senior police officer seemingly giving them instructions. I have looked at the videos on the rt piece I have linked, and it isn't included. It is shown on the live news feed on the rt.com site.
I can't see where on that page is says "...Several thousand supporters of a united Ukraine..." etc
Yes I saw that too, and when I went back to quote it, it had gone.It definitely did before cos I read it and had a little chuckle at it. It was updated at 3.11 today so my guess is they got complaints or something and edited it out.
Here's all the changes to that BBC article.
seventh bullet, much respect for this investigation & find. I'll bow to this as irrefutable that extreme right wingers have been involved in the anti maiden at odessa.
I've looked at those posts on VK (seems he's only been a member there since the end of April and only has one freind / follower there (?)...
Further research on him shows he's since left Ukraine (I think it's the same cunt but google spurts out different gramatical names like Raevkogo, Raevskii, etc - certainly resembles hime though:
http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2014/03/russian-citizen-anton-raevskogo-black.html
Check out those tatoos!
According to the article linked above - besides the "Blut & Boden" (Blood & Earthhe also has swastika and hitler portrait tats...
Even more so now, I find it utterly bizzare that this group that he seems to represent are shoulder to shoulder with a group holding a banner that shows a strangled eagle/swastika?
According to that article he was expelled from Ukraine by the SBU but then he goes on to say (in the following VK link you provided) that he left of his own accord.
he also mentioned that the participants of the Anti Maiden actuall asked him to leave!!!!On his VK page:
My suspicion is this piece of shit has tried to gatecrash the Anti Maiden in odessa (maybe even OD).
He dos't seem to like Anton Davidchenko much (one of the main organisers of Odessa Anti Maiden - sitting in Jail since the end of March) who I suspect was instrumental in him being asked to leave the camp.
Talk about 'mix and match'
Red armband
Ukraine colours on one side
Russian colours on the other
Today the Internet has been published video, which shows how the police throw their shields on the Transfiguration street and go to the applause of the protesters
Spot on, froggy. Top post.Come on this is fucking disgusting. Celebrating soldiers deaths is this really where we have ended up?
Other people read this thread you know. Millions of people read this forum from other countries.
Imagine you are from Kiev, you know people who was in the maidan, you have relatives in the Ukrainian army, maybe you even know people who were killed in the protests. 100 people get killed in the maidan, they would have had friends and family, perhaps some of those were sympathetic to right sector and other groups, then they see the brutality of the state, they see how racist their 'comrades' were with the Jews and others at the maidan protests, they start to reject nationalism etc.
How exactly are you gonna react when you see self proclaimed anti fascists cheering on people shooting down soldiers helicopters and calling you and your dead mates scum for protesting against the government.you think all squaddies support the government? You think economic coercion in a country like Ukraine with its poverty and unemployment doesn't play a role like it does here? You think ukrainian soldiers are all right sector fash? Listen to yourselves.this isn't anti fascism. This is something else.
You should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. I am fucking glad you lot aren't ever going to have any real power because I dread to think we would end up.
A war against terrorism - great, everyone's against that, here's a gun go and do it.
Pampered leftists cheering on shot down fascist helicopters with working class ukrainian in it. Yarosh must fucking love you. Makes me fucking sick.
The crew of the aircraft survived, largely because the helicopter crashed into a river, the ministry added.
Pampered leftists cheering on shot down fascist helicopters. Yarosh must fucking love you.