A Simple Letter From A Girl

[ThePilgrim]

The place described in this letter is the place Ukraine has become with the help of those officials elected by the electorate of America. 

 

A Simple Letter from a Girl

“Unfortunately, I had to close all posts in my VK(VKontakte) about Maidan (they aren’t erased, but now are visible only to me) because after the Maidan “victory” in Kiev the real nightmare began. About that, people prefer not to speak because they are very much afraid. There are militants everywhere.
My co-worker was beat in front of the entrance to her apartment for writing anti-maidan posts in her VK page. How did they find her? No one knows. She is intensive care and at the first mention of that event, you can’t appease her tears.
At school the other day, my neighbor’s boy called his parents on a break by the mOBile phone and spoke with them in Russian. His schoolmates took away his phone and broke it. They broke his bag, tore all his textbooks and note-books, and then beat the child. They demanded he speak only Ukrainian or “for the rest of his life be afraid because they will find and will cripple him”. This is the 7th grade class.
From time to time on the streets it is possible to see this picture; As a person is approaching a group of people, the group asks questions: “Were you on Maidan? Do you support Maidan? ” If both answers are “no” the group cruelly beats them and kicks them.

In Kiev now the majority of Russians and Russian-speaking people, initially and after Maida that did not support Maidan are compelled to remember the Soviet period when “even walls have ears” and to keep mum. Because we, unlike different regions have no chance of detaching from Ukraine.

In Kiev now, as many as speak in whispers at personal meetings are doomed. Here its already a totalitarian mode and prOBably will only get worse.
Everything is getting aggravated with that. For some reason a lot Russians, and Russian-speaking people were at Maidan and in every possible way helped Maidan’s people.

Kiev is completely split. Here associating with Russians is impossible. They are now enemies in addition to Yanukovych. Its awful that this war( the gun battles that ended Maidan) is here. Such cruelty beating on absolutely peaceful people. Their only crime is that they dared to be against vandals and cheap swindlers of people.

Please, don’t mention my nickname in context with this information. If people find and cripple people already for posts in VK, that truth very much frightens us, “especially women and mothers”.

I asked for permission to publish the letter without mention of authorship and received the answer:
“If you publish, state OBjectively that externally Kiev leads a quiet, quiet life”. But it is only a matter of visibility. Those who are joyful and complacent are for Maidan. Now it is their time.

 All others are guarded and careful even with people they think they know. Russian and Russian-speaking people that haven’t faced an atrocity as opponents of the Maidan simply try to be silent in public places. They try to not attract the aggression of madmen.

And those who already suffered from them or at least as much as I know about real cases, try hard to save their families and to be silent, silent, silent.
Therefore the “picture” of Kiev is quite safe, spring comes, and so on. Actually part (and not a small part!) of the city is in silent horror.

 You cannot leave everything: Your work, your house, the proof you had a life- you can’t throw it all away.

People hang on by the skin of their teeth. After all that has happened, they hope for any miracle. Though it is difficult even to assume now that anything can save the Russians in Kiev.
It is impossible to be silent. But the inhabitants of Kiev, which are Antimaidan, and faced atrocity won’t write about it openly. Its the self-preservation instinct.

 Those who aren’t aware yet are in a kind of dark hope that somehow everything will be fine. I try to be very careful. Only here I decided to write this to you for some reason. PrOBably, because of trust and you are after all very far away…”

What is the place in store for us, us Americans?   

Here is the entire post:  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/letter-kiev-one-year-maidan.html

 

[John81]

I've heard similar from those in and near Ukraine. Unfortunately the West has a long history of supporting bad people and rulers for the sake of confronting others of their choosing.

 

Is Ukraine better off today after the Western promoted and supported coup against their democratically elected president? Without the coup, Ukraine would have good relations with Russia and economic cooperation as well as still having good relations with Western Europe. Tensions between the West and Russia wouldn't be strained and especially wouldn't be strained to the point of possible war.

 

Pat Buchanan wrote an excellent article on the situation, even pointing out the lessons we should learn from history on the matter. He's wrote a few others previously as well.

 

Unfortunately, we have Republican war hawks in charge of congress now and many liberal interventionists looking to avenge OBama against Putin for him not kissing OBama's feet.

 

Considering the mess made from the last war one would think someone would have the sense to realize risking war with Russia over a slice of Ukraine is a very, very bad idea.

[Covenanter]

 

 

...... the lessons we should learn from history ..........

The biggest lesson we ever learn from history is that we learn NOTHING from history.

 

It is so sad that we involve our children in war, & prejudice their future AND generate racial hatred that guarantees future wars. 

 

Pete Seeger's question needs an urgent answer - when will they ever learn?

[John81]

As Scripture says, there is nothing new under the sun.

 

The cycle of sin and wickedness continues in individuals lives until they surrender to Christ. Few do so which ensures each nation continues in wickedness to one degree or another. Hatred, greed, jealousy, envy, lust, pride and other sins will continue until the Lord brings it to an end. Until then there will always be strife, crime, terror, rape, murder, rebellions, revolutions, civil wars and every other kind of war.

[Invicta]

At a guess, I would thing that the pro Russians are Orthodox and the majority in the west are Catholics?

 

The Orthodox would want to be close to Russia and the RCs would want to be in the EU, Greater Germany, aka the Fourth Reich.

[John81]

I've recently heard from two different Baptist pastors/missionaries in Russia who say there has been such growth in their churches over the past couple of years the Orthodox are becoming upset and starting to work against them.

 

One of their tactics has been to claim all Russians should be Orthodox and that Baptist is an American religion and since OBama claims to be a Christian from America and has been attacking Russia, the Baptist churches, missionaries and pastors could be dangerous.

 

Now they are also able to point at the Republicans controlling congress and claim most Baptists are Republicans and since the Republican congress has voted to arm Ukraine with American weapons, that makes Baptists part of the war against Russia.

 

One of the churches is someplace north of Moscow but I can't recall the location of the other Baptist church.