Donetsk's pro-Russia rebels celebrate expelling 'fascist Ukrainian junta'
Amid second world war commemoration, regions say they still plan to declare independence despite ceasefire deal
from The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/08/donetsk-pro-russia-rebels-ukrainian-junta
With jaunty pop numbers about "expelling the fascist junta", rousing war poetry and – somewhat incongruously – a parade of performing dogs, the leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic celebrated on Monday what they see as victory over Kiev.
Held in the shadow of an austere second world war monument in central Donetsk, the event was officially a celebration of the 71st anniversary of the liberation of the Donbass region from Nazi occupation. But the parallels with the current Ukrainian conflict, where local leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin have compared the Ukrainian government to the Nazis, were not hard to find.
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n Donetsk, there was anger and resolution among the 1,500-strong crowd who had gathered at the rally.
"We loved Ukraine until they started bombing us, now we can never go back there," said Zinaida, a 58-year-old local. "They are fascists and they have your support. We read that you have Scotland wanting to secede there. Why don't you send your tanks there and destroy them instead of sending them here? We will be part of Russia now and will never go back to those fascists."
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