Hi, Gil,
Igor wrote:Today in many countries people came to Ukraine embassy to express sorrow for the 48 killed people, officially recognized, which were doused with napalm and burned alive by punishers of new Ukrainian power.
Firstly, a little history. Many people in the world do not know some facts about my country. You could read this in wikipedia and in serious sources.
Ukraine earlier was a part of Russia before 1917. Ukrainians and Russians are very near (close) and almost identical peoples. Some scientists think Russian and Ukrainian languages are one the same language with some close dialects, other scientists think they are two very close but different Slavonic languages. Anyway these two languages are closer then different dialects of German. In Russia before 1917 Ukrainians, Belarussian and (modern) Russians was considered as one the same nation, Russians.
After Russian revolution of 1917, There was 5 respublics on territory of modern Ukraine: Crimean Respublic, Odessa Soviet Respublic, Donetsk Respublic (with my city Kharkov as a capital), Ukrainian Respublic (Kiev as a capital) and West-Ukrainian Respublic (Lviv as a capital), also Carpathian Russia was a part of Hungary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa_Soviet_Republichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk%E2 ... t_Republichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Ukrai ... s_Republichttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _y_RSO.pngStalin united 3 of them as Soviet Ukraine in 1921.
In 1939 Stalin took from Poland West Ukraine.
After the World War 2 Stalin joined also Carpathian Russia to Soviet Ukraine.
And Nikita Khrushchev gave Crimea to Soviet Ukraine in 1954 as a present for Russian-Ukrainian unity celebration.
Inside of USSR there was no real borders between Russia and Ukraine, only administrative borders.
When the Cold War was finished and USSR surrendered, winners divided USSR for 15 parts. And after 1991 Ukraine beginned independed inside borders made by Stalin and Khrushchev. Ukraine is not mono-nation state.
There are here Ukrainians, Russians, Belarussians, Bulgarians, Poles, Hungarians, Jews, Tatars and other with different religions. Most of Ukrainians and Russians are Orthodox, West Ukrainians (Halychane) are Catholics. there are also Muslims, Jews and others.
After 1991 Kiev government became politics of one nation, one religion, one fuhrer.
Step by step our country moved to nazi regime as in Germany in 1934-1945.
After nazi revolution in begin of 2014, part of people wanted to do not live in one the same country with fascists. Firstly Crimea rased. It is multi-nation region with Russians, Tatars, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Jews and other nations who wanted to be part of Russia as it was before 1954. Then people of NovoRussia demanded freedom from Kiev.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NovorossiyaNazi government of Kiev trampled with blood peaceful insurrection of NewRussia people in Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhie and Kharkov regions. But people of Donetsk and Lugansk regions took weapon in arms and became protect our land from nazis. We want to be not part of Ukraine. We want to have an independent country Novorossia (New Russia) with multi-nation, multi-religion democratic people modern state without that mediaeval horror of nazism.
And yes, it is a civil war...
Now nazi army of Kiev destruct our land they use artillery agains towns and villages then come in and shoot down non-combatants if they think they sympathize with rebels. Many thousands of East Ukrainians was killed. More many ran to Russia to save their life.
Also I heared one of reason is shale gas that was found in my land. Kiev government gave this gas to Royal Dutch oil company (I forgot the name) and the company had to buy land from local men before gas work.
After the war when all people will be killed or moved from the land there will not reason to pay mone to someone...
Anyway now my people is in danger. Each day some civils are killed with Kiev nazi army. People of the world must know this truth. We need to be saved from this terrible war. United Nation must force current Kiev government to stop murder.