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Ukrainian Riots Participant Answers Questions on Reddit

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:00PM   
from the not-going-to-make-light-of-this dept.

romanr writes:

"The situation in Ukraine was pretty wild yesterday. Over twenty dead protesters have been reported, and many more have been injured. One student, a supporter of peaceful demonstrations and a participant in the riots, answers questions about the current situation in Ukraine."

[ED Note: Background on the Ukraine situation from the BBC.]

• Re:Violence begets violence (Score: 5, Interesting) by SpallsHurgenson on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:11AM

  by SpallsHurgenson (656) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:11AM (#3192)

  Not that I entirely hold to this particular thesis, but it seems an appropriate quote for the topic at hand and this particular audience:

  "Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that `violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." - Robert Heinlein

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