TheBigShort
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Especially if those fans are exiled Russian spies.I do fear for soccer supporters attending the WC next month.
They didn't choose to be next door to Russia.You cannot help thinking that most of Ukraine's problems are self inflicted.
You cannot help thinking that most of Ukraine's problems are self inflicted.
Great post.AT the time of the break up of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was according to the Communist Era statistics slightly wealthier than Poland. Today Poland has a per capita GDP almost three times that of Ukraine.
So Ukraines failure over the last 30 years is truly staggering.
Ukraine has enormous agricultural capacity. It has rain, sun and the black earth plains are among the most fertile land in the world. But Ukrainians would rather endlessly debate reform of land holding arrangements that actually farm.
Ukrainians have first world levels of education, but have completely failed to develop their country politically, economically or socially.
While Ukrainian political groupings change their names with bewildering frequency there is a strong Nazi (rather than Fascist) element in Ukranian politics. The Ukranian National Union celebrates the Ukranian forces that fought with the Nazis, and some years ago announced an intention to form a Nazi party. It was among the organisers of the Maidan protests.
The Congress of Ukranian Nationalists who polled over 23% of the vote in elections at their peak in 2002, have a garbled ideology, but suppor for the Nazi war criminal John Dmanjuk, is a big thing for them
Right Sector is an amalgam of football hooligans and the Social-National Assembly (never National Socialist !) who really don't know what they believe, but are willing to fight to the the death for it anyway.
The far right National Corps, was formed as a political party by members of the National Guard. They don't describe themselves as Neo-Nazi, though others do.
Svoboda, celebrate the Galiacia (part of western Ukraine) Division of the Waffen SS. They only won 10% of the vote at their peak.
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