The Occupy camps dispersed when the pot and pizza disappeared and nobody in the camps had anything worth stealing. When you think about it this is the fundamental problem with socialism. Eventually you run out of food and other peoples money.
The revolution in the Ukraine transcends more than economics. You cannot reduce a human being to nothing more than an economic unit without destroying individual dignity and in the literal sense, their lives.
Ukrainian protesters showed great courage rescuing their fallen while under fire from police snipers as well as those officers firing at random in the general direction of anyone not wearing a police uniform. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic and the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches turned their churches into aid stations and hospitals to protect wounded protesters from the state when reports of wounded protesters taken to state hospitals were found dead in wooded areas outside of cities. Their priests offered Mass, last rites, heard confessions, offered communion, aid stations for the wounded, prayers for the dead, and at times stood between police lines and protesters.
The American media although providing stunning and sobering video and still photography of the protests succumbed to a subtle disinformation campaign from the Russian Federation by stating that there might be right wing influences that might make a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian revolution impossible. The Russian line is that the protesters are neo-Nazis. Mention the words right wing to some American journalists and they salivate like Pavlov's dog.
Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post has written a good column on Russian disinformation concerning the Ukraine.
There was no reporting on the history of the Ukraine that was the driving force behind the revolt against the Russian attempt to control the Ukraine. The Ukrainians have a living memory of the socialist workers paradise and what happened to them when Russia controlled the Ukraine. There are survivors from the Starvation-Genocide of 1933. There are children and grandchildren of the survivors of the Starvation-Genocide of 1933.
- The 7 August 1932 law drafted by Joseph Stalin on the protection of the socialist property stipulated the death penalty for "theft of socialist property". Ukrainian villagers were executed by firing squads for theft of a sack of wheat and in some cases even for two sheaves of corn or a husk of grain.
- The 6 December 1932 decree stipulated a complete blockade of villages for allegedly sabotaging the grain procurement campaign - de facto sentencing their Ukrainian inhabitants to execution by starvation.
- An unpublished decree signed by Molotov encouraged Russian peasants to settle into the empty or half-empty villages of "the free lands of Ukraine" [and North Caucasus also inhabited by Ukrainians and likewise devastated by the famine].
- At the height of the Famine Ukrainian villagers were dying at the rate of 25,000 per day or 1,000 per hour or 17 per minute.
- By comparison the Allied soldiers died at the rate of 6,000 per day during the Battle of Verdun.
- Among the children one in three perished as a consequence of collectivization and the famine.
- According to dissident Soviet demographer M. Maksudov "no fewer than three million children born between 1932-1933 died of hunger."
- 80% of Ukrainian intellectuals were liquidated because they refused to collaborate in the extermination of their countrymen.
- Out of about 240 Ukrainian authors 200 were liquidated or disappeared. Out of about 84 linguists 62 perished.
- The Ukrainian population may have been reduced by as much as 25%.
- The 1931 harvest was 18.3 million tons of grain.
- The 1932 harvest was 14.6 million tons of grain.
- The 1933 harvest was 22.3 million tons of grain.
- The 1934 harvest was 12.3 million tons of grain.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-ukrainian-smears-and-stereotypes/2014/02/20/450b8d62-9a72-11e3-b88d-f36c07223d88_story.html
