I am amazed that such articles are actually printed in The Moscow Times.
Looks like there are sane people still living in Russia.
PI
And if you say that the 3 million residents of Crimea live in poverty, that
even by Russian standards the infrastructure there is in a state
of decline, that Ukraine barely manages to keep the region afloat with
government subsidies, and that now that entire economic burden will be
transferred to Russia's budget, they only answer you with vacant stares
and unconcern. They know only one thing: We need to save Crimea --
immediately.
And if you ask them, "From what does Crimea need saving?" they will tell
you, "From the followers of Bandera." They are referring to Stepan Bandera
who fought the Red Army after the Soviet Union annexed western Ukraine.
And when Bandera fought against the invading Germans, the Nazis sent him
to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. But where are these so-called
"Banderas" in Crimea now? Can anybody point to a single one? Not even
Russia's state-controlled television has yet to show a single follower
of Bandera roaming the streets of Crimea in search of Russians to terrorize
or kill. Nonetheless, Putin's propaganda insists that Russia must save
the Crimea from the imminent threat posed by "Banderas" or other
anti-Russian extremists.
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