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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)
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