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8. DetlefK

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 11:24 AM

Jan 2015

DetlefK

Russia is now way out of their way - this is a rather desperate attemt on Russias part to turn back the clock - or at least to make sure some of the damage coming from the fact they occupied parts of Ukraina - not to say Crimea who then sudently was going back to Russia by defult referendum - even if it was reported to many to be at least doubfully everyone was given their full support, as most of the poling stations was guarded by armed soldiers... If the refendum had been that free, I doubt it was any need for armed soldiers on a poling station...

As I rembember 1989 - it was millions of people from GDR who supported the unification of the two german states - in fact it was the pepole of GDR who was tearing down the wall between the two countries - who split Berlin in two for more than 40 years... And outside of the police forces who was armed it was a peacefully demostration - by the east german pepole that they do not wanted to live in GDR anymore - they wanted to be free - and live in a democratic socisity - they wanted anything else than the current government in GDR....

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