Lubomyr Luciuk: Russia unleashes demons
Let us consider the dismemberment, the cutting into pieces, or, better put, the mutilation of a country.
Yelping that Crimea's Russian majority was under threat from gangs of rampaging "neo-Nazis, nationalists, and anti-Semites," spewing out of Kyiv's Euromaidan and headed south, Vladimir Putin, the Russian Federation's president-in-perpetuity, dispatched troops to the 'rescue,' so rendering a European state. To date the 'fascists' menacing Russia's colonists in Crimea have proven phantasmagorical. Indeed the only folks (volks?) found giving the Nazi salute there, while warming their backsides with burnt offerings of Ukrainian and Jewish books, were the lumpenproletariat skinheads of the "Russian unity" movement. Their peculiar choice of evening entertainment hasn't been seen in Europe since April 6, 1933, when Hitler's Brownshirts 'cleansed' the Third Reich of 'decadent' literature. Mr. Putin keeps curious company.