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2014-03-11 Europe

Russia's oligarchs throw their weight behind Kiev's revolutionary rulers

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Posted by Fred 2014-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Just shows you whose revolution it is.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-11 06:31|| 2014-03-11 06:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Kinda like the US oligarchs throwing their weight behind the Obama revolution....hope and change.

Posted by AlanC 2014-03-11 07:52|| 2014-03-11 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 The Revolution belongs to the people who protested in Kiev. And they can oust this bunch as they did those Russian bandits Vanukovych and Azarov, who were Putin's. This is important because the people involved were considered Russian leaning, and have accepted the appointments with a time limit on them, and have been tasked with attacking the corruption in the regional governments.

Better to have their businessmen in charge than Russian goons behind a rifle.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-11 12:31|| 2014-03-11 12:31|| Front Page Top

#4 So, now we have the "Evil Businessmen" bogeyman being waved by commenters here -- Have you become leftist tools? You act as if this is a betrayal, but where does the article state that - or are you posting your own anti-businessman prejudices onto this situation, as suggested by the word "Oligarch" AlanC?

Right now, Russia is looking like Hitler and the Sudeten. Nationalist. Yes. Socialist. Yes. Authoritarian. Yes. Led by a charismatic thug. Yes. Invading another nation despite a treaty with them to respect their border and national integrity? Yes.

But I guess you prefer military invading and then laying mines at the border, to "oligarchs"? Better than those eeeeeeevile businessmen accepting appointments to decriminalize the government /sarcasm. It seems you're gullible to accept anything as long as it fits the leftist propaganda you have uncritically consumed. At least until the pogroms start... Be carful who you idealize, Grom.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-11 12:34|| 2014-03-11 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Dear OldSpook, two points:

1)Despite living in Massachusets I am constitutionally incapable of leaning left.

2)SOME businessmen are evil.
Does the name Soros ring any bells? The foundations of Fascism include the rent-seeking, crony capitalists that have a synergistic relationship with the corrupt and tyrranical in government. The government doesn't have to "own" the means of production to control the means of production.

Greed for money and power are not the monopoly of socialists though it is a defining characteristic of them. The trick is to maintain individual freedom and the rule of law without succumbing to those vices.

Oligarchy - government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes.

Given that from the time of Aristotle power has gone along with money the corruption of government to the benefit of SOME of the rich (aka evil businessmen) has been a fact of life.

My comment was directed more at the oligarchy that is forming in this country than the Ukraine. Only time will tell there as to whether they are oligarchs, aristocrats, technocrats or something else.

Posted by AlanC 2014-03-11 16:06|| 2014-03-11 16:06|| Front Page Top

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