There is a country called Ukraine.  It was a beautiful, peaceful country.  Then the Soviets came and murdered and starved millions of men, women, and children.  The Soviets pretended to leave, but never really left.  The Ukrainians made the best of it and tried to make Ukraine a beautiful, peaceful country again.  Now, the same Soviets are back again marking territory under the same guise as Hitler used when he annexed the Sudetenland.  As the Crimean people are severed from their friends and neighbors, and they fall into the hands of the corrupt, let us have a moment of silence for the empty stillborn rhetoric of the west.