Yeah, and what could possibly go wrong?

Post #387,265 by a6l6e6x 3/6/14 10:44:46 AM Reply	Yeah, and what could possibly go wrong? And, the ballots will be in Ukrainian, Russian, and Tatar? And, there will be armed "True the Vote" characters in Balaklavas to guard the ballot boxes? Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov
Post #387,266 by mmoffitt 3/6/14 11:24:23 AM Reply	And visits to ensure everyone exercises his voting rights.
Post #387,341 by Andrew Grygus 3/7/14 2:08:04 PM Reply	Russian yes, Tatar no. Most Ukranians can read Russian well enough - but - according to Box, Tatars have no standing - Crimea rightly belongs to Russia. I'm not willing to accept his argument as coherent until he admits that Native Americans have no legitimate claim to any part of North America. Six of one, half dozen of the other. Russia has a history of evicting native populations without compensation of any kind and replaced them with Russians. Most notably the Circasians, shipped to Turkey (with about 40% mortality in transit) under the Tzars, and Tatars and others under the Communists.
Post #387,343 by mmoffitt 3/7/14 2:14:20 PM Reply	Re: Most Ukranians can read Russian well enough There's a very good reason for that, especially among those at least in their late 40's or 50's. I went to school in Kiev for 4th class. We had a course in Russian as our mother tongue and we had a course in Ukranian as a foreign language. Not too dissimilar from having young Hispanic kids take English as their primary language course and Spanish as their foreign language course in your neck of the woods. ;0)
Post #387,344 by boxley 3/7/14 2:19:14 PM Reply	Tartars have standing to the extent that their protected status us recognized. They didn't like siberia and want to go home. I'm not sure of whether their wish to be part of a stand alone country Crimea, Part of a Ukraine who wants to expel all russian speakers (does that include tatars?) and at the very least will keep all of the eastern folks subjugated to the whims of Kiev or a russian vassal state? Im sure the last is not what any of the folks there really want, russian or not. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep

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