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| Pro-Russian thugs attacking pro-Ukrainian protesters in Donetsk on Monday |
The Russian State, whatever its
ideological cloak, was always capable historically at least (or so we thought)
of unleashing so pretty grim strains of thought and actions in its name. The
inhabitants of the Kremlin have been historic advocates of state sponsored
terror for want of a better phrase. Whether it was the Black Hundreds pre 1914
or the NKVD / KGB in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950’s or the extreme ‘Russian
nationalists’ of the 1990s, 2000’s and 2010’s – the end results have often been
pretty grim from pogroms, deportations, state terror and even in recent years
illegal killings of its opponents.
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