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My grandmother (my mother's mother) cried when Stalin died. It was in 1953. Do you think that only Russians were crying? She was Ukrainian by nationality.
Briefly about Maidan. I watched opposition footage on YouTube. And I started watching television, when on the Odnoklassniki website, one of my friends clicked "like" on a video where a police officer was burning alive. Russian television shows how police officers are burning, but it doesn't show the police's response. Opposition media cut this out and show how Berkut then beats the protesters. Nevertheless, both sides show the opposition with European Union flags. Thanks to the fact that there are enthusiasts in Ukraine, I talked to them. The general meaning: most of them (not all) say that the government and the police are criminal and need to be overthrown (no one answered who to replace them with). By the way, our media says that all the people against Berkut on Maidan are fascists :). I'm glad that there is the internet now, and we can talk. And since Chemist, Javdet, and Captain (I judge by communicating with him), living in Ukraine, are closer to the government, it means that the Ukrainian government is not very bad.
P.S. Dark30, thank you for the clip "Let's say NO to war! NO WAR!". It's very touching!!! I also remember Vysotsky's song: "And before the war, this slope, a German guy took with him, he fell down, but was saved, and now, perhaps, he is preparing his machine gun for battle."
P.S.S. It's not nice to write in other languages on a Russian website (Heroesworld.ru), including in Ukrainian, although it is half understandable in Russian, and I really like listening to the Ukrainian band "Tin' Sontsya".
Alessandro, if your mother is still alive, you can ask her at 36 why your grandmother was crying. Maybe she was crying because she herself was in a difficult situation, or relatives were destroyed or repressed (especially if she was Ukrainian, she may have been exiled to Siberia, to Barnaul), maybe she sincerely believed in the Communist Party and their fight against "enemies of the people," or maybe she was crying because of a purely Russian thought: "How will we be without our glorious Generalissimo Tsar Stalin?"
Of course, it's easier to see what's happening on Maidan in Ukraine from Barnaul. And of course, the opinion of Tvarina, Yurist, and Lim is not as important as that of Chemist and Javdet.
No, Alessandro, there are no opposition channels in Ukraine. There are honest ones, just like in Russia. And what don't you like about the European Union flag on Maidan? You should learn about the reasons for the Maidan.
I won't even list all the atrocities of the Berkut and the authorities. I just want to note that "Molotov cocktails" were thrown not only by the defenders of Maidan.
If you're interested in who supports the government, find my message in this same thread earlier.
There's no point in talking about the fascists on Maidan on Russian television. Yes, yes, they're all fascists, they're doing it for money, America is paying them, and it's all against Russia.
I've been listening to the band "Hitler und Stalin Kaput" lately, it's pretty good. Although for Russians, this is shocking, but for Ukrainians, it's very good.
Весна 2013.
