(How Ukraine came to this)
archived from February 24, 2014
by Scott Creighton
Among the reasons Mr. Yanukovych turned away from signing political and trade accords with Europe in November was his unwillingness to carry out austerity measures and other reforms that the International Monetary Fund had demanded in exchange for a large assistance package.
On Sunday, the fund’s managing director, Christine Lagarde, said that there was concern about the political instability in Ukraine and that the fund could provide assistance only in response to a formal request. But she added that an economic program to help Ukraine had to be “owned by the authorities, by the people, because at the end of the day it will be the future of the Ukrainian economy.” New York Times
For all intents and purposes, all it took was a bunch of snipers shooting at police and protesters, some raging yuppies viciously attacking unarmed police and a complicit military who chose a side by not choosing a side and the West has achieved what they wanted in Russia’s backyard: a pro-EU regime change in the Ukraine.
Outside the Cabinet of Ministers building, parents had their small children pose for photographs with victorious antigovernment fighters who are still armed with clubs and wearing helmets, but now stand guard over the government headquarters. New York Times
Democracy is served once again, right? Thug democracy that is. Thug democracy on behalf of the IMF that is.
To be sure, Kiev has quite a long way to go before it will feel normal again. Instead of trained police, irregular bands of antigovernment fighters now control and provide security at main government buildings, including the presidential residence, and enormous barriers of tires, scrap wood and other debris still close off the main protest zone. New York Times
But our official Ministry of Truth version of the story?
“The United States is on the side of the Ukrainian people,” Rice said. The people expressed themselves peacefully, she said, and Yanukovych “turned on” the people by using violence against them. CNN
The concessions that the legitimate government had made in the end (early elections including a new president) wasn’t enough for the rabid neoliberal thugs raging through the streets of Kiev. Why should they be? Everyone knew that when it came to the will of the people, those Ukrainian traitors who find themselves clamoring for control today wouldn’t win an open election. Democracy therefore had to be subjugated to the will of the oligarchs and their Western allies.
Today the legitimate president of the Ukraine finds himself a wanted man for having the gall to stand up to the International Monetary Fund. As is standard operating procedure in events like this one (take Egypt as an example) the ousted president will be charged with the murders committed by our assets in his country.
He is hiding but will soon be found and put to the same end that Saddam and Gaddafi found. This is being celebrated as a victory for “democracy” on Fox News and MSNBC alike.
The new acting president has been granted new powers by the remaining parliamentary officials (those who support the neoliberalizing of their country at the expense of the people). He is a pure neoliberal economist who owned a business with the last Prime Minster of the Ukraine and who also just happened to be a corrupt neoliberal shill who traded her influence for tons of cash.
Turchynov is an old ally of Yulia Tymoshenko, another prominent Ukrainian political figure from Dnipropetrovsk. They used to have a common business in Dnipropetrovsk. In December 1993, Turchynov co-founded and became Vice President of Ukrainian Union of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs. In 1994 he created the political party Hromada together with Pavlo Lazarenko, a business ally of Tymoshenko.[9] Turchynov was also director of the Economic Reforms Institute from January 1994 to March 1998 and was head of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences’ Laboratory of Shadow Economy Research Wikipedia
Yulia was released from prison Saturday.
All those who stood opposed to the illegal coup are being forced from office. It’s a house cleaning of sorts where they remove and or arrest or kill all those official voices of resistance to the new government. Ironically, the legitimate government had offered to bring more opposition into power right before the end and here we have the new regime literally wiping out all of the legitimate government as fast as they can if they don’t share their neoliberal ideology. Of course, this ideological cleansing will be portrayed as democracy in action by our complicit soulless media back here in the states.
Mr. Turchynov, a veteran lawmaker who served previously as acting prime minister and as head of the security service, noted that Parliament had appointed an acting interior minister, who is in charge of the police, and had designated lawmakers to oversee the general prosecutor’s office, the Defense Ministry and the security service…. In a series of votes on Sunday, the Parliament dismissed the foreign minister, Leonid Kozhara; the education minister, Dmytro Tabachnyk; and the health minister, Raisa Bohatyriova. New York Times
A “unity government” will be fully in place by Tuesday, or so they say.
So far there is no mention of any of this from the “liberal” MSM:
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