Previously: "Updates prior to 9 Aug 2014"
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Whilst material has been posted in recent months to the Ukraine section (http://candobetter.net/ukraine) little has been added to this page since May 2014. From now on, we intend to update the section above, as far as we are able, with links to all the most important material about the Ukraine conflict, both anti-imperialist and (pro-fascist) mainstream , as well as our own commentary. We will endeavor, also, to republish appropriate articles on candobetter and write our own. - Ed, 9 Aug 2014
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President Putin has acted to protect Russia's strategic interests on the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. Citizens of the Crimea and the eastern mainland region of Ukraine including the cities of Kharkov and Donetsk have repudiated the new government and are openly protesting against it in the streets. The Crimean regional parliament has refused to accept the legitimacy of the local government appointed by the mainland putschists.
To learn the truth about the Ukraine it is necessary to read genuinely alternative news sources including Russia Today, The Voice of Russia, The Voice of Russia, The Moscow Times, PressTV, Global Research and related video and audio resources.
The broader historical context
However, even the reporting by these alternative newsmedia is not altogether without flaws and shortcomings. Very little on the web#fnSubj1" id="txtSubj1">1 seems to properly account for the deeper historical context from which the current conflict has emerged:
After the devastation of the Russian Civil War, the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) encouraged a national renaissance in literature and the arts. However this was reversed by the dictator Josef Stalin, who succeeded Lenin#fnSubj3" id="txtSubj3">3 in 1924. According to Wikipedia, Stalin murdered 681,692 Ukrainians in the 1920s and 1930s and he deliberately imposed famine upon Ukraine in which up to 10 million died. Consequently, it should hardly be unexpected that in 1941 some Ukrainians erroneously saw the Nazi invaders, who planned to starve 25 million Ukrainians#fnSubj2" id="txtSubj2">2 and other Eastern Europeans untermenschen in order to create lebensraum for Germany, as liberators.
Links to such resources and, where appropriate, additional commentary, will be provided on these pages as events unfold. The first is Interview with Graham Phillips, Ukraine -based British journalist of 18 May 2014
Footnote[s]
#fnSubj1" id="fnSubj1">1. #txtSubj1">⇑ An exception, is John Simkin's historical web-site Spartacus Educational.
#fnSubj2" id="fnSubj2">2. #txtSubj2">⇑ 25 Million is the figure given in Max Hastings' All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 (2011).
#fnSubj3" id="fnSubj3">3. #txtSubj3">⇑ Whilst it has become "accepted wisdom" that Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the former Soviet Union (aka USSR) was a brutal dictator, this is contrary to the historical evidence. Wherever free and open discussion is allowed and evidence to the contrary is #comment-173372">presented, as it was on the forum discussion web-site of Australian academic John Quiggin on 27 April 2012, those who uphold such lies will be either silent when the contrary evidence is presented, or else lose the argument.
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