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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*
You're quite right. The western media is as much of a joke as we're told the Russian media is. It's all propaganda. The HORRENDOUS coverage of the pandemic by the BBC has made me lose all faith with it too. Especially their complicitness to Government corruption and illegality. As soon as Government took charge of it's funding, it's now no better than state news.
I find your Crimean referendum results difficult to swallow. 96% ? I don't trust any vote that comes out of Russia. Putin is a dictator. Opposition is routinely crushed or disappeared. But one can't argue the history of the Crimea or it's inhabitants.
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Without seeking to pull the topic even further off topic (!), the history behind all of this goes back way further than the last 75 or 100 years that Ted and TomKat mention.
A very good read that I highly recommend is The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy. A very thorough history, that certainly left me thinking that the current problems are just the latest iteration of problems that have existed for nearly a millenia.
Ta,
Ed
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