Everyone is aware of the turmoil in Ukraine. The over simplified version is that Ukraine was moving toward Europe and away from Russia. Putin rattled the saber and offered aid (carrot and stick). Ukraine leadership fell in line with Russia and the populous rebelled. Many have already died.
Recall Steve Taylor’s song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEzi2M2u7eQ
http://www.sockheaven.net/discography/taylor/meltdown/05.html
After the Nazis we were baited by the Russian bear
Our “liberators” wanted Poland for a thoroughfare
I was a victim of December 1981
I took a final beating from the blunt end of a Russian gun
You plant your missiles while our people wait in line for bread
You hang an army tank above us by a bloody thread
You bought our government they crawl like bleating sheep to you
We know from history that human life is cheap to you
Over my dead body
Redemption draweth nigh
Over my dead body
I hear a battle cry
Try and blow out the fire
You’re fanning the flames
We’re gonna rise up from the ashes
‘Til we’re ashes again
You make a mockery of all that we hold sacred here
You drive us underground in hopes that we will disappear
We seek our sanctuary where the altar candle burns
Our dignity’s a legacy the cross of Jesus reaffirms
Over my dead body
Redemption draweth nigh
Over my dead body
I hear a battle cry
Try and blow out the fire
You’re fanning the flames
We’re gonna rise up from the ashes
‘Til we’re ashes again
After the Nazis we were baited by the Russian bear
Our “liberators” wanted Poland for a thoroughfare
Rise up my brothers don’t despair the Iron Curtain’s rod
Someday we’ll draw the string assisted by the hand of God
I was a victim of December 1981
I took a final beating from the blunt end of a Russian gun
You made a memory–the memory will multiply
You may kill the body but the spirit–it will never die
Over my dead body
Redemption draweth nigh
Over my dead body
I hear a battle cry
Try and blow out the fire
You’re fanning the flames
We’re gonna rise up from the ashes
‘Til we’re ashes again
http://www.sockheaven.net/discography/taylor/meltdown/05.html#about
The parallels in history to both the lead-up to WWI as well as the lead-up to WWII are astonishing. History does repeat. Let us prepare and let us fight for what is right. Resistance is not futile.
No one forgets the six millions Jews killed by the Nazis, though many seem to be preparing to let it happen again, but no one much remembers that the Soviets were responsible for 20 million deaths, many of the Ukrainian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q21Mz9LGivQ
The warnings are there. We have no excuse.
[…] wrote a little here: https://gottadobetterthanthis.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/ukraine-reminds-me-of-poland-of-1981/ and it is so hard to keep up with something so far away when we have such important things to talk […]