malkung

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by malkung 12y ago
Here is a better translation: http://mikle1.livejournal.com/4119395.html
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by malkung 12y ago
I see. Yes, the translation is off. Still I am curious how this can possibly distract from the main point - mass murder in an European city in 2014. Well, I hope there will be a better translator in the future, maybe that would help.
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by malkung 12y ago
Seems like the HN community wishes to just ignore this info.
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by malkung 13y ago
The fact the photos are from 2013 or someone at Maidan was wearing an old Nazi symbol of Svoboda does not justify the statements "There is no anti-Semitism in Ukraine" and "Svoboda has nothing to do with Nazis". Rather t
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by malkung 13y ago
> What an amazing argument, because there are only two media outlets in the world -- Fox News and Huffington Post. No, I prefer Völkischer Beobachter obviously. To call a news source "leftist idiots" to contradict what they say
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by malkung 13y ago
> And that's again a load of bullshit. Is this true or not, in your opinion: Andriy Parubiy, the new secretary of Ukraine's security council, was a co-founder of the Neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), otherwise
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by malkung 13y ago
> from garbage sources by useful leftist idiots from Huffington Post and like. I appreciate your level-headed unbiased approach. You prefer Fox News, I presume? > That's just so pathetic that is not even funny. You ignore opinion
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by malkung 13y ago
I admit I did not know about the letter from the Ukrainian Jews to Putin. I do not know what motivated them to write such a letter. It could be Bandera followers standing over them, or something else. You can't really deny the neo-Nazi
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by malkung 13y ago
> Eh, neo-Nazis to call to armed struggle against the state? That's just bullshit. Why do you think it's bullshit? Have you seen those images from Kiev of people throwing cobbles and Molotov cocktails at police, and some firing
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by malkung 13y ago
Here you are thinking about Russia in your Western categories. Those who did exit did so not because they want to be able to speak up against Putin, but for economic or professional reasons. Also Anti-Putinites are so many on the Internet y
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by malkung 13y ago
> I really don't see what every media outlet that isn't Russian state-controlled would have to gain from distributing "biased" journalism. That's in theory. In reality, I see a very clear bias in Russian as well
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by malkung 13y ago
My impression from reading Russian blogs on LiveJournal is that there are two kinds of people in Russia right now: those extremely anti-Putin and those extremely pro-Putin, in about 50/50 proportion. No one is "too afraid" or
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by malkung 13y ago
Also this: "publish or perform any benchmark or performance tests or analysis relating to the Service or the use thereof without express authorization from AlchemyAPI;" Suppose I am evaluating their service, before I decide to buy
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by malkung 13y ago
> No matter how core it is to your religion, you may not injure or kill me. Well, you should respect my religion or at least be sensitive about it (if you want to have some dialog). When I come to your country, I won't make a fuss s
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by malkung 13y ago
Ok, so you don't mean it's the God suddenly introduced democracy in new countries, but revolutions; the revolutions started because the population was unhappy - not about the lack of democracy, but about poor economy. I agree wit
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by malkung 13y ago
> genital mutilation. It's all disgraceful behaviour, ... If your culture is a culture of repression then no, I do not have to respect it. Right there, you violated a human right, freedom of religion. Would Orthodox Jews, for exampl
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by malkung 13y ago
> I didn't say personal preference, I said preference. It's not a choice you make, but it is an orientation. Straight sexual orientation is clearly biological. So it's not a question of choice. As far as I can tell, there
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by malkung 13y ago
Homosexuality stopped being illegal in Russia in 1993 ( http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%... ).
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by malkung 13y ago
If it's a personal preference, then this has to do with culture, not biology. If it's a cultural thing, then you should realize there are different cultures out there, and one culture has no right to impose itself on others. As th
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by malkung 13y ago
By democracy I mean principles like a multi-partite political system, free speech, commitment to securing human rights. I am not talking about freedom as such - surely the idea of freedom is "deeply ingrained" in every person, reg
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by malkung 13y ago
I am not sure about that. Yes, they are oriented towards the West, but they too were in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union for a long time, except Western-most regions that were part of Poland until WW2.
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by malkung 13y ago
You seem to think that democracy is some God-given quality, universal to all people, and you can introduce it into any country just by invading it or inducing a regime change in some other way. I think it is a social institution that can ev
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by malkung 13y ago
Ok, it's well-meaning EU vs. corrupt Russia. Culturally, Ukraine seems to be much closer to Russia than to EU. So I think the end result will be similar to what happened with Arabic Spring revolutions, when the West hoped to see Wester
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by malkung 13y ago
> It was heaven for Russians, because a nation that has been historically at the bottom of the ladder, got to play in the big leagues. Who cares if your standard of living sucks? It always sucked. For anyone interested what Ukrainian nat
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by malkung 13y ago
> Ukraine has a culture, a history, a language. That culture, history, and language is UKRAINIAN. Not Russian. > After the fall of the USSR, Ukraine started clawing back its own heritage and of course, there is friction. You're w
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by malkung 13y ago
> Russia has no interest in investing in Ukraine's future. Seems like it does, based on the bailout money it offered. Even then, Russia and (Eastern) Ukraine have strong cultural/historical/etc connections, so these issues
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by malkung 13y ago
30% of Ukrainians are NOT in favour of the EU treaty, and happen to speak Russian as their first language. Not surprising Russians are not keen Ukraine to get separated from Russia either. But why is that unfortunate? Also I hope you are no
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by malkung 13y ago
Do you mean ethnic Russians or Russian citizens or are Russians those who make anti-protestor comments?
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by malkung 13y ago
Constantly burning car tires, large-scale production of Molotov cocktails, great skills at building barricades, lots of people wearing body protection ... This does not look like self-organization at all. Surely, someone has been seriously
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by malkung 13y ago
I am always suspicious about a story where there are goodies and baddies.

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