While world commemorates Holocaust, Russia attacks Ukraine

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A weekend of fierce fighting in Ukraine’s embattled Donbass region continued Monday as pro-Russian insurgents encircled Ukrainian government troops in a new advance. The war of words heated up, too, as Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Kiev of relying on a “foreign legion” to wage war against the separatist militias. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called Putin’s comments “nonsense.”

http://time.com/3684514/ukraine-separatists-fighting/

[Scootaloo]

1. What does the holocaust have to do with it?

I mean, aside from being easy to exploit.

[leveymg]

2. To make a point, a single-issue poster has to exploit any weakness,

even his own. No matter how tasteless and inapt.

[ensemble]

3. I wonder if the neo-fascists...

in the Ukranian Government are commemorating the Holocaust?

http://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-government-far-right

The new Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych is a member of the far-right Svoboda party, which the World Jewish Congress called on the EU to consider banning last year along with Greece's Golden Dawn.

The party, which has long called for a "national revolution" in Ukraine, has endured a long march from relative obscurity in the early 90s. Their declaration that Ukraine is controlled by a "Muscovite-Jewish mafia" has raised fears for the safety of the country's Jewish population.

[DeSwiss]

4. :-|