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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 25-Nov-04
Ukraine: Police in Kiev holding fire as opposition candidate tells hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to hold nationwide strike

Web Log - November, 2004

Ukraine: Police in Kiev holding fire as opposition candidate tells hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to hold nationwide strike

The 1919 civil war could be repeated today, according to outgoing President Leonid Kuchma.

"The civil war at the beginning of the last century which we know about, thank goodness only from films, could well become a reality at the present time," he said.

Kuchma is referring to the atrocities and mass executions that Russia used to force Ukraine into the Soviet Union in 1921. Tens of millions died at the time.

These are the atrocities that I described a few days ago. Generational Dynamics predicts that they will indeed become a reality again, if not right away then at some time in the near future.

The supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko were enraged yesterday, when Ukraine's election commission declared the establishment candidate Viktor Yanukovich as the winner of Sunday's election.

Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately congratulated Yanukovich, but he's about the only one who did.

Secretary of State Colin Powell bluntly called the election a "fraud" at a State Department briefing yesterday. "We cannot accept this result as legitimate because it does not meet international standards and because there has not been an investigation of the numerous and credible reports of fraud and abuse," he said. "We have been following developments very closely and are deeply disturbed by the extensive and credible reports of fraud in the election."

Powell indicated that some unnamed action will be taken if the election fraud isn't investigated and corrected. (He's an interesting aside: It turns out that it's American taxpayers who are paying for dismantling old Soviet nuclear weapons located in Ukraine. Isn't that special?) It's unlikely that America will reduce aid to Ukraine, so the exact nature of the threatened consequences is unknown.

Speaking to a crowd of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko is calling for an "all-Ukrainian political strike" to protest the election.

Kiev's riot police are wary, but are holding fire against the massive crowd of demonstrators. If violence spirals out of control, then it may well spread into southern Russia dn the Caucausus region, which I've previously described as one of the six most dangerous regions of the world. (25-Nov-04) Permanent Link
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