Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: L'incredibile grande rivoluzione democratica Ukraina

Chissa' perche', i
paladini-nella-lotta-contro-l'antisemitismo-definito-come-critica-di-israele
hanno pochissimo da dire su questo episodio (assolutamente non
isolato).
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/02/ukraines_yusche.html
Doug Ireland
February 04, 2006
UKRAINE'S YUSHCHENKO HONORS ANTI-SEMITE IN YET ANOTHER BETRAYAL OF THE
'ORANGE REVOLUTION'
Remember all the frothy praise of Viktor Yuschenko and what a great
democrat he was -- back when he was the leader of the so-called Orange
YushchenkoRevolution that toppled Kuchma the corrupt Ukrainian regime
of President Leonid Kuchma -- from George Bush, the neocons, Freedom
House, and the Western press in general? Well, this week a
little-noticed dispatch from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (the
worldwide Jewish news service founded in 1917) related how
now-President Yushchenko has just awarded Ukraine's highest honor --
the "Hero of Ukraine" medal -- to a notorious anti-Semite, Ivan
Spodarenko. But not a word of this outrage has appeared in the major
U.S. dailies.
"Spodarenko, a Socialist lawmaker, is the head of the editorial board
and former longtime editor of Silski Visti. In 2004, the newspaper
published an article asserting  that 400,000 Jews served in Nazi SS
forces during the German invasion of Ukraine in World War II," the JTA
reported. "With its circulation of 500,000, Silski Visti is one of the
most widely read Ukrainian newspapers, catering mainly to rural
readers. In 2002 and 2004, the newspaper published a series of
anti-Semitic articles that outraged the Jewish community. The paper was
sued over anti-Semitic articles in 2004 but the case was closed in 2005
without a verdict. Last April, Spodarenko was among the signatories of
an anti-Semitic letter calling 'to stop the criminal activities' of the
organized Jewish community in Ukraine.'"
The leader of the Social Democratic Party of the Ukraine (SDPU), Victor
Medvedchuk, has also denounced the awarding of the country's most
important decoration to Spodarenko. . "I am ashamed of Yushchenko who
conferred the title to this person who is known for his xenophobic
ideas just a few days before the International Day of Commemoration in
memory of the victims of the Holocaust.Today the whole world is
mourning over the Holocaust victims. And our 'moral' authorities confer
the country's highest title on the person who is widely known for his
chauvinism and anti-Semitism, the leader of the scandalous newspaper
known for its libels," said the SDPU chief in a release on his
website. The SPDU is the Ukrainian affiliate of the Socialist
International, the world-wide federation of democratic socialist
parties.
During the presidential election runoff that resulted in his victory,
Yushchenko -- in December 2004 -- tried to calm Jewish fears about his
accepting support from anti- Semites by visiting the central synagogue
in Kiev, donning a yarmulke, and lighting a menorah. But the award to
Spodarenko turns that campaign appearance into a masterpiece of
hypocrisy. Indeed, the British Helsinki Human Rights group reported at
the time that "Western media and governments...edited out the
manifestations of extreme nationalism and anti-Semitism which disfigure
the Ukrainian opposition's rabble-rousing, but history will record
that, in the run up to the disputed presidential elections, key
opposition leaders, including Viktor Yushchenko, Julia Timoshenko and
Alexander Moroz, defended anti-Semitic publications [including
Spodarenko's Silski Visti] and accepted the backing of neo-Nazi groups
...Nor were the anti-Semitic apologetics of the Ukrainian opposition
unknown to key OSCE observers and European Union parliamentarians who
nonetheless ignored the dark shadow across Yushchenko's campaign,
preferring instead to abuse his rival."
Is it Back to the Future time in Ukraine? Elections are scheduled for
the end of  March, and yesterday's Times of London reported, under the
headline "Ukraine turns back to Moscow as Orange Revolution is
betrayed," that the man Yushchenko defeated for president -- Kuchma's
hand-picked successor and the pro-Russian pawn of Vladimir Putin,
Victor Yanukovych -- is making a comeback, so great is the
disillusionment with the corrupt and bumbling Yushchenko regime.
Yanukovych "is on the verge of snatching back power from under the
noses of the Western governments that so enthusiastically embraced the
Orange Revolution," the Times  of London reports. Corruption is so
rampant that Yushchenko fired his hand-picked Prime Minister, Julia
Timoshenko, an oil business millionaire, " when civil servants in Ms
Tymoshenko's inner circle blew the whistle on corruption among key
figures in President Yushchenko's clique, including steel baron Viktor
Pinchuk [Kuchma's son-in-law -- D.I.]," the E.U. Observer noted in an
interview published Friday with the ex-P.M., who has now founded her
own party and joined the opposition. Yushchenko's failings also
extended to his choice of a Justice Minister who never apologized for
being very economical with the truth when he claimed he had an MA and
PhD from Columbia University -- he didn't -- and who had zero legal
experience. And Yushchenko's giving away the store to the corporate
oligarchs and the multinationals hasn't helped Ukraine's sagging
economy.
"The latest polls give Yanukovych's Party of the Regions 25 per cent of
the vote, Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party only 15 per cent and Mrs
Tymoshenko's bloc 12 per cent," the Times of London reported.

 
Ennesima riprova che il comunismo e' peggio degli unni. Dove passa 
distrugge il tessuto civile al punto tale che l'introduizone della 
dmeocrazia puo' persino diventare un fatto negativo e pericoloso.
andrea

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Si, perche' l'antisemitismo in Ukraina lo hanno portato i comunisti.
Ma va a...
GT

luno...@hotmail.com
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Tra poco diranno che i pogrom li ha inventati Lenin <g>

 Ma va a...
Non so chi ce lo abbia portato; in ogni caso non puoi negare la pessima 
situazione in cui versa da sempre la democrazia in ucraina.
andrea

@ndre@ wrote:
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Ma in Ucraina c'è mai stata democrazia? In Russia c'è mai stata? Se non la
vogliono perché forzare? Te lo spiego io l'occidente non riesce a convivere
con altre culture e per questo morirà.

@ndre@ ha scritto:
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da "sempre" ?
l' ucraina è indipendente dal  dicembre 1991......

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E chi lo nega.  Era il punto del mio posto originale.   E la
"rivoluzione arancione", non ha cambiato un fico secco, a parte (un
pochino) i membri della cricca dominante.

 
Massimo, non sto parlando di "democrazia" ma di quella vera. Col tuo 
metro dovrei arguire che c'e' piena democrazia anche in Russia i o in 
Egitto.
andrea

luno...@hotmail.com
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quoto
andrea