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Houses filled with the dead were commonplace in Ukraine in 1932 and '33. Those who collected the corpses knew where to stop if they saw ravens nearby. And sometimes the emaciated living were carted away with the deceased.
<p>Liberal Russians reflect on Stalin's death 69 years later and observe parallels with Putin's approach to internal dissent. </p>
Politics: Central to the appeal of populism is the idea of the effective strongman. Recent events are showing us the fumbling strongman
Vladimir Putin and others insist on our understanding the rape of Ukraine in a certain context. The context consists of components including the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe, and Putin's high anxiety. If anyone has supplied the context from Ukraine's perspective, I missed it. I doubt that it's ancient history in Ukraine. Ukraine's subjugation by the the Soviet Union was an unhappy experience.
Despite the belligerent idiocy of the US talking head class, nothing justifies Putin's armed assault on Ukraine