The End of Donetsk Airport

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Clarissa

January 21, 2015

For 242 days, Russians tried to wrestle the Donetsk Airport away from a handful of Ukrainian fighters. Many of the best Russian special ops soldiers were killed in the effort. Many Chechens were killed.

The Donetsk Airport became a symbol of Ukraine ‘ s heroic resistance in the face of a much more powerful and numerous enemy force.

Finally, the Russians realized that they weren’t going to achieve the feat they’d been promising the avid TV viewers back in Russia and capture the airport. So in a fit of blind fury, they destroyed it.

Here is what the Donetsk Airport looks like now:

This is what it looked like before:

And this:

So much senseless destruction, so much death.

But at least the Russian TV viewers are happy because tonight’s shows will be especially fun to watch. The destruction of the airport is being massively celebrated right now in Russia. Now they have really shown the evil Americans who’s boss!

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14 responses to “The End of Donetsk Airport”

musteryou

January 21, 2015

Too bad. These are touching pictures.

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Evelina Anville

January 21, 2015

This is heartbreaking. And the pictures really drove it home. So tragic.

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1. Stringer Bell
  
  January 22, 2015
  
  Those pictures are haunting.
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    January 22, 2015
    
    And for what, you know? What did they achieve with all of this? Corpses on both sides, rubble, destruction. For what purpose?
    
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Jones

January 22, 2015

So now it looks only slightly worse than Heathrow T2 did before the rebuild …

Eventually this too shall pass.

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n8chz

January 22, 2015

You hear anything about a Russian spy ship parked outside site of USA-Cuba negotiations? Nothing stealth about it. Yet another limits-testing provocation, it seems.

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 22, 2015
  
  No, I haven’t heard. But I’m not surprised.
  
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Tim

January 22, 2015

Came here to link some pictures of the Donetsk Airport, but you have already found them.

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el

January 22, 2015

I heard that German PEGIDA was pro-Russian, but couldn’t understand why. Today read this on the “Germany’s news in English” site (don’t know if the article describes their views correctly, but “fewer refugees” idea was … unexpected by me):

The movement is also deeply pro-Russian. Patzelt points out that, to former East Germans, the current Russian regime has nothing in common with the Soviet Union.

“The people in the East hated the Soviets but for historical reasons, there is no anger against Russians among Germans,” he says.

Many of those who participate in the walk carry Russian flags. The idea is that if Russia has power again, it can create a balance of power with the United States of America, thus causing fewer bombing campaigns by the global military power.

With fewer military actions, there would be fewer wars, less demand for arms, and fewer refugees fleeing their homelands and coming to Germany, explains Patzelt.

“There is still a deeply-rooted anti-Americanism in East Germany and Dresden,” Patzelt explains.
http://www.thelocal.de/20150116/what-exactly-is-pegida-islam-germany-europe

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 22, 2015
  
  They love Putin ‘ s neo-fascism, that’s all. Of course, they can’t say it openly, so they come up with these convoluted justifications. All that Putin has been doing is waging war and creating refugees.
  
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2. Tim
  
  January 22, 2015
  
  They may hate the Russians, but loved the soviet system.
  
  When the wall fell, everyone who hated the soviet system ran for their lives. Consequently those who lived a comfortable live under the SED stayed behind and have developed a really weird nostalgia.
  
  Anecdote time: I have two relatives. They were married and separated when she moved to the West and he wanted to stay in a suburb or Dresden. If you ask her, you will hear a horror tale. work was endless, pay was irrelevant, medical treatment was nonexisting and working women were seen as a huge problem (Stay at home and have babies, goddamn it).
  
  If you talk to him, he will tell you that there was nothing better than the DDR. You got paid for doing nothing all day and you just have to sit at home and let the party take care of you. See, he was made a roofer when he registered as unemployed with the govt. Sure he had never learned the trade, but that was of no concern to him because most of the time, he wasn’t working at all! You know why? No roof tiles. There were no roof tiles so they couldn’t work, so all he did for years was stay at home and get paid.
  
  A grandios system, is it not?! But then he was reunified with the rest of Germany and was suddenly required to actually do work to provide for himself. And he hold HUGE grievances towards society for this. And, you know, we could just see how awesome this system was, we could move back to it.
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    January 22, 2015
    
    “A grandios system, is it not?! But then he was reunified with the rest of Germany and was suddenly required to actually do work to provide for himself. And he hold HUGE grievances towards society for this.”
    
    Great story. That’s exactly how it was in the USSR, as well. And this is almost verbatim what people who are nostalgic for the USSR are saying. There was security, there was comfort. People discovered what choice and responsibility are and they don’t like either. As a result, we have those who are nostalgic for the USSR start endless wars, like the current one in Ukraine. They don’t know what else to do with themselves so they start killing people around them. Thank you for the great comment, Tim!
    
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Jaka

March 17, 2015

Pro ukrainian propaganda

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 17, 2015
  
  What? The photo of the destroyed airport? Well, I guess you are right. The ruins scream to the skies about the atrocity of the invaders and the heroism of the Ukrainian defenders of the airport.
  
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