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MADem

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1. To read some posts here, you'd think Putin's marauders would be greeted as liberators...
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 01:07 PM
Mar 2014



"Us fascists?" asked Valentin. "They're the fascists," he said, likening the "referendum at gunpoint" he expects to annex Crimea to the invasion he was part of as a young conscript, when Soviet leaders claimed to have been invited by Czechoslovakia to lend "fraternal help" against a purported right-wing plot.



Everything old is new again.

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