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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussia sent in busloads of “protest tourists”
This is absurd. Have they not heard of this thing called the internet. This sort of stuff gets out nowadays.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/world/europe/russias-hand-can-be-seen-in-the-protests.html
It is clear that in this part of Ukraine, many ethnic Russians distrust the fledgling government, and some would indeed welcome Russian troops. But the events unfolding in major Ukrainian cities in recent days appear to match a pattern played by the Kremlin in Crimea, where pro-Moscow forces paving the way for Russia to seize control were neither altogether spontaneous, nor entirely local.
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Russia sent in busloads of “protest tourists” (Original Post)
BrentWil
Mar 2014
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cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)1. Cosmo-turf!
('cause astro-turf was named to sound like astronaut, and Russian space flyers were called cosmonauts)
independentpiney
(1,510 posts)2. good one! nt
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)5. In Russia, Astro-Turf play on you!
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)3. Ahhh....straight from Bush-Cheney Iraq liberators play book
Same as Brooks Brothers protests 2000 in Florida.
Same propaganda shit different day.
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RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)6. I've ridden busses to protests right here in the US
Am I a Putinist, too?