Ukraine Furious After Italy's Salvini Calls 2014 Revolution "Fake" And "Foreign-Funded"
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by Tyler Durden
Sat, 07/21/2018 - 20:00

Ukraine has summoned the Italian Ambassador to Ukraine Davide La Cecilia over a statement made by the Interior Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini (whose League political party is now the most popular in Italy) on his recognition of the annexation of Crimea by Russia and his slamming the 2014 Euromaidan protests and coup in Kiev as “pseudo-revolution” sponsored from abroad.

"We are responding. On Monday, we will meet with the Italian ambassador. He is a very nice person. I understand that he cannot be responsible for the words of their politicians, especially given that that one politician went to Crimea and just returned from Moscow, where, according to our information, he met with Putin," Olena Zerkal, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister, told the local Channel 5 on Friday."

Ukraine was infuriated by Salvini's comments made during his interview with the Washington Post, published earlier this week. WaPo senior associate editor Lally Weymouth tried to grill the minister over his support for Crimea’s return to Russia, calling the referendum that took place in Crimea in 2014 "fake."

Q. You said that Russia had a right to annex Crimea?
A. There was a referendum.
Q. It was a fake referendum.
A. [That is your] point of view. . . . There was a referendum, and 90 percent of the people voted for the return of Crimea to the Russian Federation.

Salvini shot back, saying "compare it to the fake revolution in Ukraine, which was a pseudo-revolution funded by foreign powers – similar to the Arab Spring revolutions" adding that "There are some historically Russian zones with Russian culture and traditions which legitimately belong to the Russian Federation."

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry angrily responded that Salvini words were "not grounded in real facts and in contradiction of recognized principles and norms of international law."

Zerkal also downplayed Salvini’s words on Friday by saying that "it was hard to expect any different rhetoric from him," following the "pro-Russian" Salvini’s recent visit to Crimea as an Italian lawmaker.

The tension goes back to the February 2014 "Maidan" revolution, when then-president Viktor Yanuvkoich was overthrown in a violent, US-assisted coup d'etat. Obama's Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, made numerous trips to Kiev to telegraph US support for the anti-Yanukovich protesters, and was even spotted handing treats to the demonstrators, boasted that Washington had invested $5 billion into the promotion of democracy in Ukraine. In the now infamous leaked recording in which the Asst. State Secretary said "Fuck the EU" over the Union's lack of support for the US strategy, Nuland was revealed as the mastermind behind the Ukraine unrest.


Victoria Nuland hands out bread to protesters at Independence square in Kiev December 11, 2013.

The new pro-Western government sent tanks to eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 where the population refused to recognize the coup, at which point Russian soldiers were dispatched to Crimea - a critical chokepoint for the US navy - which held a referendum that saw the local population vote overwhelmingly to join Russia.

In response, the US and the EU accused Russia of annexing Crimea and stoking the conflict in Donbass, as they slapped Moscow with several waves of sanctions targeting individuals, companies and whole sectors of economy. The animosity between the US State Department, if not so much the US president, and Ukraine continues to this day.

And while most of Europe had strictly adhered to the conventionally-accepted western narrative, the statement by Salvini indicates that as Europe is washed over by a populist wave, recent history is also being reassessed.
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Comments

Lost in translation Sat, 07/21/2018 - 20:00 Permalink
Hard not to appreciate this man.

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J S Bach Lost in translation Sat, 07/21/2018 - 20:06 Permalink
He's right. Most of the "revolutionary" actions in Ukraine were funded by Western sources. Just ask Victoria Nuland, wife of the kike, Robert Kagan. Her influence caused the ouster of duly-elected, President Viktor Yanukovych. More meddling in Eastern politics by the hubristic and "virtuous" West.

What Ukraine needs is a spiritual revival of its historic Cossack heroes. These "White Russians" were the thorn in Lenin/Stalin's side which impelled the latter to impose draconian starvation tactics against those humble peasants and kulak farmers which became known as the "Holodomor". This was a REAL Holocaust of innocents which has never been properly avenged - neither through historical recognition nor actual physical violence. After so many millions of distant relatives were so callously murdered, I marvel that there isn't an innate lust by the Ukrainian descendants to inflict a just retribution upon those treasonous elements in their midst. Instead, those same outside tribal entities continue to push for the dissolution of Ukraine. It's a never-ending infection. Until the white blood cells of the nation rise up to repel that bacillus... inflammation, pain and death will only increase.

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Yellow_Snow J S Bach Sat, 07/21/2018 - 20:12 Permalink
Victoria Nuland was born in 1961 to a Jewish family... wiki

What else do you need to know about the 'revolution' ???

Keyser powow Sat, 07/21/2018 - 20:36 Permalink
Funny how the truth comes back to bite you in the ass... In the infamous words of Victoria Nuland, "fuck the EU"...

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Handful of Dust Keyser Sat, 07/21/2018 - 20:46 Permalink
I'm adding Spaghetti to my dinner menu in honor of Salvani. Maybe a Papa Johns and some Chianti (from Italy, not the cheap imitation Cali stuff) also to top off the dinner celebration!

Dickweed Wang Handful of Dust Sat, 07/21/2018 - 20:53 Permalink
When I see stories like this it makes me think the Ukrainian government and the Democrat party in the US have a lot in common, and none of it's good.

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johngaltfla Dickweed Wang Sat, 07/21/2018 - 21:29 Permalink
Truth hurts. This was a Soros operation funded by Soros and laundered by the Clinton/Obama axis of globalist evil.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...foreign-funded