World Affairs Journal: Party of Regions vs. truth, decency and competence
Still think that Regionnaire rule in Ukraine might be compatible with truth, decency, and competence? Here are four more pieces of evidence that’ll lay to rest whatever residual hopes you may still possess.
The first consists of two photographs depicting the crowds that attended the May 9th Mass celebrated by Kirill, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Regionnaire-ruled eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The organizers chose the city’s huge Liberty Square as the site of the ceremony, in the expectation that attendees would number 100,000. As you can see from the top photograph, the altar is to the right, the towering statue of Lenin (sic!) is in the background, and the crowd is clearly far less than 100,000—even if you count Vladimir Ilich. Journalists estimated some 5,000, which looks about right. Now look at the photograph just below it. That’s the one the Ukrainian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church published on its website. Thanks to the miracle of Photoshop, the crowds look at least twice as large. More important, they trail off the bottom of the shot, suggesting that countless thousands might have been beyond the reach of the photographer. Now here’s a question for the good Kirill. Ready? Which commandment says, “Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”? You have ten guesses. Read the story here.
The first consists of two photographs depicting the crowds that attended the May 9th Mass celebrated by Kirill, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Regionnaire-ruled eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The organizers chose the city’s huge Liberty Square as the site of the ceremony, in the expectation that attendees would number 100,000. As you can see from the top photograph, the altar is to the right, the towering statue of Lenin (sic!) is in the background, and the crowd is clearly far less than 100,000—even if you count Vladimir Ilich. Journalists estimated some 5,000, which looks about right. Now look at the photograph just below it. That’s the one the Ukrainian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church published on its website. Thanks to the miracle of Photoshop, the crowds look at least twice as large. More important, they trail off the bottom of the shot, suggesting that countless thousands might have been beyond the reach of the photographer. Now here’s a question for the good Kirill. Ready? Which commandment says, “Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”? You have ten guesses. Read the story here.