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Fate of American Indians awaits the Ukraine
Cyril Vyshinsky
22.08.2007 20:39
A museum has been opened in the Crimea dedicated to the victims of American Wars. Only American Wars. Ukrainian Communists have set out to prove, in one collapsable tent, that NATO is not the place for the Ukraine. Neither in political nor in military alliance. The tent will be moved from one Crimean city to the next to make sure everyone gets the message.
"The United States of America has conducted more than 350 wars, aggressions, attacks, and other forms of interference in the affairs of other states. The methods of genocide varied - systematic killings, poisoning water in reservoirs, destruction of food supplies, mass migrations, mass destruction etc. ..." says the museum guide.
So now, among the many tourist sights and museums in the Crimea we have one more- a museum dedictated to the memory of the victims of American imperialism. It is situated in downtown Simferopol, in the best traditions of Ukrainian protest architecture - in a protest tent. The walls of tent are hung with anti-NATO posters, and stalls there tell of the genocide of the indigenous population of America - Indians, about the slave trade and the racial oppression of the 19th century, the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about Vietnam, burnt and razed to the ground by American napalm.
The creators of this unique museum? - Ukrainian Communists. "This is totally unique, as you know, a political response to American critiques of Communism: when Bush in Washington created a museum of Soviet occupation, and Yushchenko chimed in approvingly, I said that we would respond with exactly the same kind of museum. Today, we have given our response ", say Leonid Grach, chairman of the Crimean branch of the Communist Party of the Ukraine.
Yushchenko's idea for the creation in the Ukraine of a museum of Soviet occupation, which he got from a visit to a museum on the same theme in Tbilisi, is called by Communists "blasphemy" and a systematic distortion of history. However, the main threat to the future of the Ukraine is American aggression. His country survived their "Orange Revolution" - in which Crimean Communists played a role. Now they fight attempts to draw the Ukraine into NATO. The museum tent is packed with exhibits, and there are plenty of visitors there. Among the visitors - the leader of Russia's Communists Gennadi Zyuganov, who was on a vacation to the Crimea. "One must always remember that attempts by the Americans to build a 'military hegemony of peace' in the world is, in reality, a direct threat to world peace: to Russia and to the Ukraine, to a United Europe, and to China. Practically all countries on the planet came out against the Iraq war. We are obliged to pursue a policy so to ensure that American and NATO troops are neither in Russia nor in the Ukraine nor in Belorussia ", he stated.
The Museum is open around the clock - twenty-four hours a day - and can be moved easily to other locations: they will be seeing it in cities all over Crimea. Soon it will transfer its anti-imperialist crusade to the city of heroes -- Kerch, Ukraine.
translated by Jerome Raymond Kraus (2007)
Fate of American Indians awaits the Ukraine
Cyril Vyshinsky
22.08.2007 20:39
A museum has been opened in the Crimea dedicated to the victims of American Wars. Only American Wars. Ukrainian Communists have set out to prove, in one collapsable tent, that NATO is not the place for the Ukraine. Neither in political nor in military alliance. The tent will be moved from one Crimean city to the next to make sure everyone gets the message.
"The United States of America has conducted more than 350 wars, aggressions, attacks, and other forms of interference in the affairs of other states. The methods of genocide varied - systematic killings, poisoning water in reservoirs, destruction of food supplies, mass migrations, mass destruction etc. ..." says the museum guide.
So now, among the many tourist sights and museums in the Crimea we have one more- a museum dedictated to the memory of the victims of American imperialism. It is situated in downtown Simferopol, in the best traditions of Ukrainian protest architecture - in a protest tent. The walls of tent are hung with anti-NATO posters, and stalls there tell of the genocide of the indigenous population of America - Indians, about the slave trade and the racial oppression of the 19th century, the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about Vietnam, burnt and razed to the ground by American napalm.
The creators of this unique museum? - Ukrainian Communists. "This is totally unique, as you know, a political response to American critiques of Communism: when Bush in Washington created a museum of Soviet occupation, and Yushchenko chimed in approvingly, I said that we would respond with exactly the same kind of museum. Today, we have given our response ", say Leonid Grach, chairman of the Crimean branch of the Communist Party of the Ukraine.
Yushchenko's idea for the creation in the Ukraine of a museum of Soviet occupation, which he got from a visit to a museum on the same theme in Tbilisi, is called by Communists "blasphemy" and a systematic distortion of history. However, the main threat to the future of the Ukraine is American aggression. His country survived their "Orange Revolution" - in which Crimean Communists played a role. Now they fight attempts to draw the Ukraine into NATO. The museum tent is packed with exhibits, and there are plenty of visitors there. Among the visitors - the leader of Russia's Communists Gennadi Zyuganov, who was on a vacation to the Crimea. "One must always remember that attempts by the Americans to build a 'military hegemony of peace' in the world is, in reality, a direct threat to world peace: to Russia and to the Ukraine, to a United Europe, and to China. Practically all countries on the planet came out against the Iraq war. We are obliged to pursue a policy so to ensure that American and NATO troops are neither in Russia nor in the Ukraine nor in Belorussia ", he stated.
The Museum is open around the clock - twenty-four hours a day - and can be moved easily to other locations: they will be seeing it in cities all over Crimea. Soon it will transfer its anti-imperialist crusade to the city of heroes -- Kerch, Ukraine.
translated by Jerome Raymond Kraus (2007)
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