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History of Novorossiya

Understanding the word patriot

Economical system of Novorossiya

Pavel Gubarev about Novorossiya

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History of Novorossiya ............................................................................................. 3How it began ........................................................................................................... 5 First wave of Euromaidan ................................................................................. 7 Donbass and Crimeas answer to Kiev junta .......................................... 11 Armed people against civilians European standard of democracy? ............................................................. 15South-East has found their position steer to Novorossiya ......................................................................................... 17We need to mention about the word patriot ............................................ 27Economical system of Novorossiya .................................................................. 29A new step in future with Pavel Gubarev the leader of Novorossiya ..................................................................................... 30

NNovorossiya was a historical term ofthe Russian Empire in 17641873denoting an area north of theBlack Sea, presently part of Ukraine.

The region was conquered by the RussianEmpire at the end of the 18th century fromthe Ottoman Empire and remained underits control until the October Revolutionand the collapse of the empire in 1917. Inmodern terms this historic territory over-laid what is now Donetsk Region , smallportions of Lugansk, Dnepropetrovsk Re-gion, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev Region, Kher-son Region , Odessa Region and Crimea inUkraine; Krasnodar Area, Stavropol Area,Rostov Region, and the Republic ofAdyghea in Russia.

When the Russian Empire annexed thenorthern coast of Black Sea from the Ot-tomans in the 18th century after the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774, Russian official-dom established the Novorossiysk Gover-norate there, administered from Kremen-chug.Historically, it was known as the WildFields or Devastated Fields, as several cen-turies ofwarshad driven off agriculture andurban settlement. The Wild Fields had cov-ered roughly the southern territories of mo-dernUkraine; they extended into Russia.

After the fall of the Golden Horde, the east-ern portion was claimed by the CrimeanKhanate (one of its multiple successors),while its western regions were divided be-tween Moldavia and Lithuania.

With the expansion of the Ottoman Em-pire, the whole Black Sea northern littoral

region came under the control of CrimeanKhanate that in its turn became vassal ofthe Turks. Sometime in the 16th century,Crimean Khanate allowed to settle in theBlack Sea steppes the Nogai Horde, whichwas displaced from its native Volga regionby Muscovites and Kalmyk.

The Russian Empire gradually gained con-trol over the area, signing peace treatieswith the Cossack Hetmanate and with theOttoman Empire at the conclusion of theRusso-Turkish Wars of 173539, 176874,178792 and 180612. Saint Petersburgforcefully liquidated the free lands of theZaporozhian Sech in the 18th century, thuseliminating the independent rule of thearea by ethnic Ukrainian Cossacks, as theybecame inconvenient for Russian coloniza-tion. Prince Grigoriy Potemkin (17391791) directed the Russian colonization ofthe land at the end of 18th century theRussian Empress Catherine the Greatgranted him the powers of an absoluteruler over the area from 1774. Administra-tively the newly incorporated area becameknown as the Novorossiysk Governoratewith Novorossiysk (present-day Ukrainiancity of Dnepropetrovsk, not to be confusedwith present-day Novorossiysk, RussianFederation) as its capital.

In the 19th century, Novorossiya was thename of the General Government centeredin Odessa, a major port on the north-westcoast of the Black Sea. When it was takenfrom the Ottomans, the region was sparselypopulated and home to several ethnicgroups, of which the most numerous wereRomanians and Ruthenians (Ukrainians).

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According to the first Tsarist census of theYedisan region conducted in 1793, after theexpulsion of the Nogai Tatars, 49 villagesout of 67 between the Dniester and theSouthern Bug were Romanian. East of theSouthern Bug, in the so-called New Serbiaregion, in 1757 the largest ethnic groupwereRomanians at 75%, followed by Serbs at12% and 13% others. The Russian authori-ties commenced a program of colonizationof the region when they acquired it, en-couraging large migrations into the region,including Romanians from Moldavia, Wal-lachia and Transylvania, as well as Ukraini-ans, Russians and Germans; in 1792 theRussian government declared that the re-gion between the Dniester and the Bug wasto become a new principality named NewMoldavia, under Russian suzerainty.

Catherine the Great also invited Europeansettlers to these newly conquered lands:Romanians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks,Macedonians, Albanians, Germans, Poles,Italians, and others. Inhabitants of the for-mer New Russia commonly speak theRussian language in cities and some areasoutside, while Ukrainian generally pre-dominates in rural areas, smaller towns,and villages. With its history, the ethniccomposition varies.

Apart from ethnic Russians and Ukraini-ans, the population includes communitiesof Greeks, Armenians, Tatars, and manyothers. Novorossiya changed during thebeginning of the 19th century due to the in-tensive movement of colonists of variousnationalities, who rapidly created towns,villages and agricultural colonies in thearea. During the Russo-Turkish Wars, themajor Turkish fortresses of Ozu-Cale.

Akkerman, Khadzhibei, Kinburn and manyothers were conquered and destroyed. Newcities and settlements were established intheir places.

Multiple ethnicities participated in thefounding of the cities of Novorossiya. Forexample:

Zaporozhye started as a Cossack fort;Odessa, founded in 1794 on the site ofa Romanian or Tatar village by a Span-ish general in Russian service, Jose deRibas, had a French mayor, Richelieu(in office 18031814);Donetsk, founded in 1869, was origi-nally named Yuzovka in honor of JohnHughes, the Welsh industrialist whodeveloped the coal region of the Don-bass.


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The Rus s i an Emp i reMALOROSSIYA

Kiev

LuganskDnepropetrovsk(Ekaterinoslav)

Donetsk(Yuzovka)

Rostov-upon-the Don

NikolaevOdessa

BessarabiyaKishinyov

Pobuzhye

Budzhak

The Northern Black Sea cost

Crimea Kuban

Sevastopol Novorossiysk

Donbass

Romania

N OV O R O S S I YA

The river Dniepr

The Black Sea

The Sea of Azov

BBanal as it sounds history tends to re-peat itself.The tragedy of former Ukraine is that it wasformed, like a patchwork, of very differentparts which lying at a crossroad of tradeand war used to belong to different neigh-boring countries that could be enemies atone time and allies at another. Ukrainenever had its own statehood, at least for along time, but there have always lived ad-vocates for an idea of kinship and brother-hood with this or that neighboring peoplea part of which their ancestors had been.

The Western Ukraine used to be a part ofdifferent European countries whereas thelargest part of it the East, the Southand thecentral part were, land by land, conqueredby the Russian Empire. The South-Eastbeing very rich in natural resources wasthen developed by it, both industrially andintellectually, called Novorossiya and even-tually reached such a level of prosperitythat it was called The heart of the Empire.

When after the Bolsheviks revolution in1917 the Russian Empire collapsed its out-skirts saw a chance of becoming independ-ent and creating their own states, of whichMalorossiya as nowadays Ukraine wascalled at that time wasnt an exception. Buteven then different parts of it saw their fu-ture differently. The industrial East createdthe Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic that fol-lowed ideas of the proletarian revolutionwhereas the rural center formed the bour-geois Ukrainian Peoples Republic. It did not exist long in the heat of the civil war

and was defeated by the Bolsheviks in 1918 after which, to make it economicallystronger, it was united with the richer andmore developed East.

Thus in 1919 the Ukrainian Soviet Socialis-tic Republic was created as one of the fu-ture Soviet Unions founders and the nameUkraine appeared on the worlds maps forthe first time.

The western Ukraine was still a part of theAustria-Hungary Empire at that time whilethe Crimea still belonged to the RussianRepublic of the Soviet Union. The formerjoined the Ukrainian Republic after theWorld War II and the latter was pre-sented to it by the then leader of the USSRNikita Khrushchev in 1956. In these bor-ders, the Ukrainian Republic existed untilthe crash of the Soviet Union in 1991.

At that moment Ukraine reached anotherfork in its historical development and so-called Ukrainian patriots jumped, repeat-ing history, at another chance of creatingtheir own statehood. There was a referen-dum in which the population already usedto being citizens of the Ukrainian Republicsaw nothing wrong in living in a separatedcountry but still in friendship and cooper-ation with the Russian Republic and votedfor its independence.

However, Ukrainian nationalists consid-ered the word separation at the most pos-sibly profound levels and the propagandaof Ukrainism started twisting history, tear-ing all bonds with the past and squeezingRussian language, culture and mentality

How it beganHow it began



out of all spheres of life. At first it was aslow and cautious process but the secondPresident of Ukraine had already a bookcalled Ukraine is not Russia published.Step by step this idea was imprinted in thepeoples mind and an image of Russia as anenemy was created.

It was very difficult to tear ordinaryUkrainians apart from their Russian broth-ers and sisters with whom they had beenconnected so strongly, so long and in somany ways but Ukrainian nationalists hada lot of foreign help mostly from Ameri-can experts in creating social and nationaltension and the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada for the majority of whom the en-

mity to Russia had always been a priority.Their united efforts almost succeeded in2004, in the time of the so-called OrangeRevolution (a series of protests and politi-cal events that took place in Ukraine fromlate November 2004 to January 2005, inthe immediate aftermath of the run-offvote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidentialelection which was claimed to have beenmarred by massive corruption, voter intim-idation and direct electoral fraud), anti-corruption in its form and anti-Russian inits core, when for the first time slogansabout Russia having always been suppress-ing and robbing Ukraine sounded at thestate level.



AApure nationalistic idea has no fu-ture, though, and the Orange revo-lution quite predictably failed butanti-Russian crusaders kept planting theirpoisonous seeds in peoples, especiallyyouths, minds wherever and wheneverpossible and waiting for another opportu-nity to ride and skillfully direct a wave ofthe populations indignation, which pre-sented itself at Euromaidan in November2013 (a wave of demonstrations and civilunrest in Ukraine, which began on thenight of 21 November 2013 with publicprotests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (The In-dependence Square) in Kiev, demandingcloser European integration. The scope ofthe protests expanded, with many calls forthe resignation of President ViktorYanukovych and his government).

One day Euromaidan and its consequenceswill enter books as an example of a quickand highly effective manipulation of large masses of people by a series of provoca-tions, compared to Dr. Goebbelss propa-ganda. It started as a peaceful protestagainst a delay in signing the Agreementabout the Association of Ukraine with theEuropean Union. The driving force of itwere, as it often happens with all protests,students for whom it was rather an act ofcivil consciousness and who refused to addany other meanings to it proposed to themby the then opposition.

Quite naturally, in less than a week they gottired of being paid no attention to and con-sidered their mission completed. Preciselyat that moment when their number haddramatically dwindled they were dispersed

by the police attacked by some unknown people, supposedly members of theprotest. By some strange coincidence, therehappened to be a lot of reporters at the mo-ment and the whole world saw videos ofthe polices cruel and bloody abuse ofpower. After which events started to de-velop faster and faster.

The next day there were already thousandsof people on the main square of the capitalof Ukraine. Their main demand hadchanged, too they didnt want the Agree-ment about the Association to be immedi-ately signed anymore; they wanted theauthorities to be called to justice for beat-ing poor children whose average ageturned out to be about 30, though.

On Maidan there was erected a stage onwhich the opposition politicians took turnsmaking speeches, condemning the author-ities and winding up the crowd for moredecisive actions. The crowd was listeningto them, shouting its agreement at well-arranged moments, encouraging more andmore violent calls but staying passive par-ticipants of the show while the authoritiesdid not seem to hear speakers at all. So, tobrighten things up, among the protestantsappeared well-built young men wearingmasks and equipped with baseball clubs and the first official buildings were seized,the first barricades were erected and thefirst mass attacks at the motionless ranksof the police guarding endless meetingstook place.

Every day the atmosphere on Maidan wasgetting darker and darker. The number of

First wave of EuromaidanFirst wave of Euromaidan



well-built and well-prepared young men was growing, masks and clubs were becom-ing more and more popular, together withother means of "self-defense" like metalsticks, pepper sprays and even axes, barri-cades formed of all possible kinds of litterwere getting higher and higher, and tentswere spreading in the city center by dozens.Everywhere appeared graffiti of Nazi sym-bols, calls like "Ukraine is above all" and"Russians must hang" sounded more andmore often and there were more and morepeople who were, judging by the dialectthey spoke, from the Western Ukraine andlooked very unfriendly and suspicious.

Since its very first day Maidan was verywell supplied with food, clothes, tents andmedicines, even wood for open fires to cookupon and get warm at. On the other hand,in the Western Ukraine there had longbeen a problem of unemployment as peo-ple there had been rather willing to destroy

all the industry in their region as a trace ofthe hateful Soviet time. Therefore, it wasinevitable for them to get attracted toMaidan, both politically and economically.

Then in January, on the day of OrthodoxEpiphany, the first hips of hundreds of tireswere set on fire and the first Molotov cock-tails were thrown at the police officersguarding the entrance to the GovernmentalQuarter. Again, by the order of the author-ities, the police did not do their job and re-store order they were just standing thereand burning alive like human shields be-ween the toothless power and radicals get-ting bolder and bolder.

That was the end of any semblance ofpeaceful protests. But ordinary peoplefrom both Kiev and the Western Ukrainewere still reluctant to join in with politicallyand financially motivated radicals in theirviolence. To warm their indignation up, to



turn it into real hatred to the authoritiestwo of the most active protestants wereshot by snipers, of which the then Presi-dent was immediately, before any investi-gation, accused. This murder started ausual for the then opposition and nowa-days Government practice of accusing anopponent of their own deeds.

People got angry but not enough and not insufficient quantities to overthrow the legit-imate President who, on his part, finally re-alized the seriousness of the conflict andunder the pressure of the Western leadersdecided to make concessions to the oppo-sition. But neither the opposition nor theirWestern patrons needed any concessions;they wanted theabsolute, undivided power.

To get it they violated an agreement withthe President signed by representatives ofthree European countries and Russia as

witnesses, burnt the center of the capital ofthe country one of the most beautifulcities of Europe and sacrificed about ahundred more of their own supporters to asniper's bullets to get the others motivatedenough to commit a coup that took placeon the night from 21 to 22 February 2014when infuriated protestants broke into theGovernmental building already abandonedby the President.

As for the residents of the East and Southof Ukraine, during all the protests onMaidan they simply worked without payingmuch attention to the turmoil in the capi-tal. As the recent events have proved, theycannot be said to be indifferent to the po-litical life of the country but, firstly, afterthe Orange Revolution and its spectacularfailure, a new Maidan seemed just ridicu-lous. Secondly, the then PresidentYanukovich (2010214) having come out



of the East had managed to go back on al-most all of his campaign promises aboutthe rights of ethnic Russians constitutingthe majority of the regions' population, inparticular and had consequently lost agreat deal of his support there.

Thirdly, during the meetings on Maidanthere were some attempts of the power toorganize an anti-Maidan that people fromthe East and South were forced to attendwhich didn't add any more sympathy totheir feelings toward the then authorities.The forth and perhaps the most importantreason for seeming indifference of the peo-ple of the South-East was their mentality.

For so-called patriots the ideal Ukrainiansociety is a rural one and by the time of

Maidan the economic situation in theSouth-East was far from being much betterthan in the west of the country as for 23years of its independence the industry hadbeen steadily neglected everywhere. Butunlike their fellow countrymen from theWestern Ukraine most of whom gladly ac-cepted the destruction of industry on theirlands, the people of the South-East realizedthe importance of its industrial centers forthe welfare of the country and preferred toimprove or, at least, maintain it by work,not by meetings and protests. They simplydidn't have time for them every day theywent down into mines, made steel and castiron, developed engineering and shipbuild-ing and produced energy and chemicals forthe whole country.



HHaving come to power after threemonths of ceaseless protestsagainst corruption and incompe-tency in the management of the economicsthe former opposition made their first offi-cial step in the sphere of languages as ifthere werent more pressing matters athand. Russian was deprived of even a sta-tus of a regional language and it was an-nounced that the most urgent task of thenew government was derussification of thecountry the country where the secondlargest group of the population are ethnicRussians. Should it be surprising that theydecided not to keep silence anymore?

Tens of thousands came to meetings andrallies in the South-East protesting againstviolation of their right to speak their ownlanguage and to bring up their childrenupon their own cultural heritage. It is veryimportant to bear in mind two main differ-ences between these manifestations andMaidan and its copies in the WesternUkraine.

Firstly, unlike the latter where the maintopic was Were being robbed by the Pres-ident, the Government, oligarchs and, ofcourse, Russia the former were not aboutmaterial things, neither were they aboutjust a language people of the South-Eaststood up for dignity, respect and tolerance.

And secondly, their meetings were ab-solutely peaceful people were just listen-ing to their speakers, ordinary citizens likethem, singing songs and marching in townsand cities again unlike the late versionsof Maidan in the Western Ukraine whereeven before the coup protestants had beenseizing official buildings, destroying thestate property, burning the police docu-ments, capturing local officials (in somecases even torturing them) and proclaim-ing their own local authorities completelyunanswerable to the then President.

But it wasn't people from the WesternUkraine who were accused of a rebellion,separatism and terrorism; it was the people

Donbass and Crimeas answer to Kiev juntaDonbass and Crimeas answer to Kiev junta



of the South-East of the country eventhough at their first meetings there wasn'ta word about separating from Ukraine.They only wanted to be heard, for the firsttime for more than twenty years, and to en-sure their ethnic and cultural rights. Butthey raised Russian flags at their meetingsand for the new authorities it was enoughto call them enemies of the state.

seemed to be able to remember how manyEuropean, American, Canadian, Polishflags there were on Maidan either. 23 yearsof poisoning people's minds with anti-Russian ideas had not passed in vain andmany Ukrainians saw a symbol of enemy in the Russian flag and considered everyonewho raised it a traitor not worthy of toler-ance, compassion or respect.

All civil wars came out of such notions andthe civil war in Ukraine started, in fact, inthe Crimea even though there weren't anylegal grounds for Ukrainians to keep agrudge against its people. With their landhaving been the last to become a part ofUkraine the Crimeans were especially sen-sitive to any attacks at their Russian origin.

The propaganda machine already well-de-veloped on Maidan and supported by allavailable to the state means was broughtinto play and soon no one in the centraland western parts of Ukraine was able tosee that for the people of the South-Eastthose flags were just a symbol of their rootsand their discontent at the idea of tearingthem away from the Russian world. No one

Besides, the Crimea had always been auto-nomy within Ukraine and its people had allthe rights to decide their future by them-selves.

So, remembering the infamous slogan ofUkrainian nationalists about their land'The Crimea will be Ukrainian or inhabit-ed', right after the coup they decided not towait for an opportunity to check whetherthat slogan was still actual but to hold a ref-erendum where the people, the mainsource of power in all democratic coun-tries, would choose whether to remain apart of Ukraine or to return to their formerMotherland, Russia. About 97% of theCrimeans chose the second option at thereferendum.



Not many countries long known as devel-oped and democratic can boast such unityof their people in the face of such an impor-tant matter and yet, none of them has rec-ognized the results of the Crimeanreferendum.

As for Ukrainians, they felt betrayed andhumiliated. They just couldn't admit thatso many of their so recently fellow country-men didn't want their idea of GreatUkraine and its shining future in Europethey had been so long fighting for and thatthe Crimean had preferred their enemy tothem and abandoned them in their crusadewith a happy smile, cries of joy and withouteven a passing look back. It belittled theirdream; it invalidated their struggle withoutmentioning a loss of famous resorts, well-known vineyards and an access to the BlackSea. It was intolerable.

Precisely at that time the first ideas of amilitary resolution of all the troubles ap-peared. The problem was that the Crimeabeing a peninsula was connected to themainland Ukraine by a very narrow isth-mus and was consequently much easier todefend than to attack. Besides, at the mo-ment Ukrainians werent yet ready to wagea real war. The propaganda had not yetturned into military hysteria and peoplehad not been subjected to it for a very longtime. So they didnt go beyond ultra-patri-otic statements that they would definitelyhave gone to war for the unity of theirMotherland if only

There was a great deal of if only theUkrainians did and still do use explainingswiftness and apparent effortlessness ofthe Crimeas separation from Ukraine, andno wonder that their most favorite one



With Russia there is peace in the Crimea

turned out to be the presence of the Russ-ian Army on the peninsula which theycalled an occupation. But the RussianBlack Sea fleet had stayed there since ever,the treaty between Ukraine and Russiaabout it had been prolonged by the previ-ous President and hadnt been denouncedby the new authorities.

Its presence gave the militia great sup-port but moral, not military whateverthe whole world believes in, and it wasthem, the Crimean militia, ready to defendtheir right of self-determination until theirlast breath who occupied official buildings,disarmed the Ukrainian units, built blockposts and ensured the peoples safety. So,it was not the Russian Army but theUkrainians fear of it that prevented theUkrainian troops from starting a civil warat that time, in the Crimea, and made itsseparation from Ukraine relatively easyand definitely bloodless.

Having been the last to join Ukraine theCrimea became the first to leave it afterwhich history of the country started to un-fold backwards. Inspired by the Crimeansexample, still unheard by Kiev and seeingthat the latter was doing its best to destroyall possible bonds with Russia, includingthose in economics where this country hadalways been the greatest partner of Ukraineand especially of its South-East, the peoplethere realized that the best way to ensuretheir ethnic and cultural rights was to de-mand the federalization of the country.And again it wasnt about a separationfrom it; the people just saw that the newgovernments politics was leading to theirregions further devastation, so they passedfrom cultural demands to economic ones.

The Kiev authorities learnt their lesson,too. Having lost the Crimea and all advan-tages of being good neighbors with Russia,both exclusively due to their anti-Russianhysteria, having received no long-promisedfinancial aid from the West, they had no in-tention of losing the South-East with itscoal and ores, mines and metallurgicalplants, fertile soils and ports. Even beforeMaidan the official Ukrainian mass mediahad been jumping out of its skin picturingthe people of the South-East as lazy, de-pressed, always drunk and naturally proneto all sorts of crimes in a word, unworthyof such a rich land. Besides, there are nonatural barriers like seas or mountains todefend the South-East from an invasionand Russia, after meeting the Crimeaswish to join it, had come under severe crit-icism and even threats of sanctions fromthe West and was unlikely to interveneagain. So, the South-East seemed to theKiev authorities to be an easy prey and achance to fight Russians back without arisk of retaliation. They have always likedit this way.



TThe peaceful protestants were calledrebels against the unity of the state.The troops were sent, first to Don-bass, to suppress the rebellion. The civilwar was set in motion.

The people of Donbass met uninvitedguests with rightful indignation but defi-nitely without any fear or arms. In almostevery village or town its residents, includ-ing the elderly, women and children, cameup to the Ukrainian soldiers asking themwhy they were there and what they weregoing to do to the local people. And, incred-ible as it sounds, they managed to stopunits of the regular army and columns ofheavy armor barehanded. Neither they norordinary soldiers wanted to spill eachothers blood. Yet.

The Kiev authorities inspired by real ex-perts in creating centers of instability allover the world had already stepped on awarpath, though. They could not afford tolose anything else their face or rather amask of strong leaders, the most profitableregions, support from the rest of the coun-try, and a hope of help from the West. Be-sides, a war and especially war hysteriacould cover all their economic failures, sothe propaganda was getting heavier andmore belligerent. As the Army turned outto be unreliable the new government cre-ated special military battalions of volun-teers with rather ambiguous but wideauthority in which any citizen alreadyproperly motivated by propaganda couldrealize his wish to punish any internalenemy of his country. In fact, by this act theKiev authorities started a hunt of one partof the population for the other.

Armed people against civilians -Armed people against civilians -Eupopean standard of democracy?Eupopean standard of democracy?


Armed people against civilians - Armed people against civilians - European standard of democracy?European standard of democracy?

"Patriots" from newly formed battalionsand old striking forces of the so-called rev-olution like Maidan's centuries and theRight Sector's units, both uncontrolled byany official power and reinforced by foot-ball fans ready to fight whoever, whereverand whenever for the sake of fighting,raided the main centers of the "rebellion".Civilians started to die and leaders of theemerging Resistance started to disappearthere. Two persons were shot in Kharkovafter discovering a den of the Right Sector.

In Nikolaev a tent camp of anti-Maidanwas smashed which resulted in tens of gun-shot wounded. In Donetsk, Lugansk,Odessa, Kharkov, Zaporozhye leaders of

anti-Maidan movement were kidnappedand taken to prisons in Kiev; some of themwere later exchanged or bought out, theothers are still there. Everywhere therewere skirmishes and bloody fights betweennationalistic "guests" and local advocatesof federalism.

In Zaporozhye a group of about a hundredpeople wearing St. George ribbons wasonce kept standing under a hail of stones,eggs, insults and a threat of brutal beatingfor about ten hours because they wouldn'ttake off this symbol of the Russian world,get on their knees and ask for forgivenessfor their betrayal of the idea of GreatUkraine.

Armed people against civilians -Armed people against civilians -Eupopean standard of democracy?Eupopean standard of democracy?


TThere were already no doubts that thenew Ukrainian authorities had cho-sen a way of terrorizing all thosewho even thought differently. But if theyhad hoped to intimidate the people of theSouth-East, to make them go down quietlywith their tail between their legs, they gotbitterly disappointed. For the first time formany decades, the people of the South-East realized that their life depended onthem, that their fate was in their ownhands, and they werent going to let go ofthis once-in-a lifetime chance for self-de-termination. So, a referendum was an-nounced to be held in Donbass on 11 Maywhen the people like the people of theCrimea and the people of all democraticcountries in their time were to choosewhat country and what society they weregoing to live in.

Meanwhile Ukraine, or rather what was leftof it, was preparing for its own presidentialelections. There was the ridiculous numberof candidates up to 30 among whomthere were new faces from Nazi parties andgroups, such as Svoboda (Freedom) andthe Right Sector, and old ones from oli-garchic circles and oligarchs themselves,and even some who were considered rep-resentatives of the South-East despite thefact that the people there decidedly refusedto take part in what they thought of as in-ternal affairs of another country. After all,if the Ukrainian government had sent reg-ular troops to deal with its own people as ifthey were the resisting population of a con-

quered country, it wasnt that surprisingthat those people wanted to stay as far fromsuch authorities as possible, preferably be-hind a border.

With the referendum, approaching the ten-sion between Kiev and the South-East keptgrowing. Having realized that they wereunable to get the rebels back under theircontrol and getting more and more de-pressed because of economic problems pil-ing up the Kiev authorities were moving step by step further and further awayfrom any semblance of civility and human-ity. If they hadnt hesitated to have theirown supporters shot on Maidan whyshould they have decided against killingthose they had officially declared terror-ists? So they cant be said to start provoca-tions against the South-East at that time,they simply continued with them losingmore and more natural restraints at everynew step and each time shamelessly put-ting blame for bloody results on their op-ponents.

To belittle the people of Donbass and theirstruggle for their rights the Kiev govern-ment had the propaganda start a campaignabout Russias intervention. It was mucheasier and safer to explain to the rest ofUkrainian citizens that it wasnt their fel-low countrymen who wanted a separationfrom them but Russian special services,Russian mercenaries and Russian moneyto pay a few local traitors to tear Ukraineapart. The Ukrainian Army, volunteers in

South-East has found their position -South-East has found their position -steer to Novorossiyasteer to Novorossiya


South-East has found their position -steer to Novorossiya

the punitive battalions, just ordinary citi-zens got more motivated in their supportfor the government that was pictured aswaging a sacred war against a crafty ag-gressor that had already proved its ambi-tions to devour Ukraine in the time of theCrimeas trouble.

People kept disappearing but on a largerscale; especially ordinary residents whohelped organize the referendum. Publicleaders, even of the most moderate views,kept getting arrested, often on the mostridiculous grounds if any. The presidentialcandidates who supposedly representedthe South-East got assaulted several timesduring their campaign and one of themwho had been refused official securityguards due to his campaigning for the fed-eralizations of Ukraine barely escaped anattempted murder by an infuriated crowdof "patriots" when he was giving a TV in-terview in the capital. The Ukrainian Army step by little step took under control townsand villages unprotected by the newly

formed Donbass militia, whose forces weretoo scarce at that time to ensure an effec-tive defense, and blocked roads to preventthe referendum activists and bulletins fromreaching Donbass localities. And in eachevent there happened to "appear" sometraces of Moscow's long arm, especiallywhen the militia that was called in theUkrainian mass media exclusively "gangsof Russian mercenaries" was concerned.Repeated many times a lie can easily betaken for the truth, and Russophobe wasgrowing in Ukraine beyond any reasoning.

Unlike the rest of Ukraine, the people ofDonbass did not need the mass media torealize what was going on around them.Each insult from the Kiev authorities, eachattack from the punitives, and each case ofpolitical persecution just made them lookforward to the referendum even more ea-gerly.When it was finally held on 11 May itsresults exceeded the wildest expectations,even those of the referendum organizers.



People started to arrive at the polling sta-tions long before those were opened. Theywere queuing for hours to vote and no onewas getting angry at long waiting. In thosequeues, many people were standing withtheir little children and there were evenvery old men and women who had nottaken part in any elections for many years.In places, where local, still pro-Ukrainian,authorities blocked access to buildingswhere polling stations had been or-ganized people just set tables in front ofthem and voted right in the street.

Everywhere there was an atmosphere of agreat holiday which nothing could destroy,even in Krasnoarmeysk where a unit ofpunitives arrived right in the middle of thevoting process, occupied the buildingwhere it was taking place and, when thelocal residents started to protest, shot twoof them just firing at random in thecrowd standing in front of them.

The turnout at the referendum was about75%, an average 90% of whom voted fortheir land to become an independent re-public. A couple of days later the DonetskPeople's Republic and the Lugansk Peo-ple's Republic were proclaimed.

The people from other South-Eastern re-gions of Ukraine didn't join Donbass withtheir own referendums at that time. Per-haps, their leaders were weaker; perhaps,there were too many of them arrested; per-haps, people there did not pay enough at-tention to practical organization of theirprotest but, first and most of all, from thevery beginning their protests were milderand their demands were more moderate.They believed in a dialog with the authori-ties; they believed in democratic ways; theybelieved that the self-determination of thepeople was a priority for everyone, thatwhen the people spoke the power had tolisten. So, they didnt bother with self-de-



fense and arming themselves and theypaid the highest price for it.

The Kiev authorities saw perfectly well thethreat of Donbass liberation movementspreading to the rest of the South-East and,perhaps, even further. So, always beingvery good at dealing with the defenselessthey decided to make an exponential victimout of them. Patriotic raids were organ-ized again, out of the same aggressive andeasily directed football fans and membersof the much swollen Right Sector. Therewere literally thousands of them marchingthrough the cities of the South-East, bully-ing their residents, shouting insults to Rus-sia and Russians and smashing everythingon their way.

Odessa has always been well known for itstolerance and sense of humor, cheerfulnessand good spirits. The protests there alwayswere the most peaceful and joyful. Peoplegathered at the famous in the city tentcamp called Kulikovo Pole and simplymarched through the streets, making jokes,singing songs and chanting verses. Eventheir skirmishes with Maidan supporterswere practically always oral, good-natured

They started with Kharkov in the end ofApril where they severely beat local sup-porters of the federalization and evenkicked to death one of them right in thestreet. Flushed with their success they ar-rived in Donetsk two days later to facedown a more obstinate prey. But Donetskalready much more determined on its wayto independence met them with such vigorthat they scattered in all possible directionsand left the city in small groups and tryinghard not to draw attention to themselves.Having proved again that they were scaryand victorious only dealing with peacefulcivilians and extremely infuriated by that,on 2 May five thousand of patriots cameto Odessa to have their revenge.

and witty. And precisely in this city Nazisdecided not to limit themselves with a mereintimidation. Not only did they smash al-most everything in the center, not only didthey destroy Kulikovo Pole; they roundedup people who were there, including casualpassers-by, drove them to the nearby TradeUnion Building where they shot, hacked todeath, burnt alive and suffocated in fumesabout 200 persons, including children.



The second name of the tragedy is OdessasKhatyn. Khatyn was a village of 26 housesand 156 inhabitants in Belarus, in LahoyskArea, Minsk Region, 50 km away fromMinsk. On March 22, 1943, the entire pop-ulation of the village was massacred by the118th Schutzmannschaft Nazi battalion.The battalion was formed in July 1942 inKiev and was made up mostly of Ukrainiannationalists from Western Ukraine and col-laborators, Soviet army prisoners-of-war/deserters and the Dirlewanger Waffen-SSspecial battalion.

But after the tragedy in Odessa somethingmuch more terrible happened. Some of thepatriots were boasting their part in themassacre, others envied them andsolemnly swore to contribute personally inthe next one, in some restaurants there

This reaction, however, showed Kiev juntathat the Ukrainian society had already beenproperly brainwashed for virtually all kindsof atrocities when the rebels were con-cerned and gave it a free hand in escalatingthe military operation in Donbass. Therewas a town of Slavyansk that had long beena pain in the back for the new government.One of the first localities taken by the mili-tia, by the time of the referendum it

even appeared new dishes called Baked Colorados and Odessa Barbeque. And allthis was followed by the already infamousMaidan slogan Glory to Ukraine! Is itthat surprising that for a great deal of thecitizens of this former country the name ofit has become cursed?

This day, 2 May, became a point of no re-turn for Ukraine. The majority of its citi-zens still capable of thinking say that it wason that day when Ukraine truly died. It wasnot even the monstrosity of the massacrethat makes them speak so; it was a reactionto it of their patriotic fellow countrymen.They were bursting with joy, and pride, andsatisfaction at the horrible death of Col-orados as they called advocates of the fed-eralization because of the colors of St.George ribbon.

had held out against the regular army forabout a month and a half. Its small garri-son armed only with guns in the beginningturned out to be undefeatable in directskirmishes with the Ukrainian militaryeach attack of whom resulted in hugelosses in manpower and armor, the latterbeing promptly collected by the Slaviyanskgarrison and put to use.



So, this town with a symbolic Slavic namebecame an outpost of Russian spring in theSouth-East of Ukraine and, at the sametime, a place where junta discarded eventhe slightest conventions regarding crimesagainst its people. It had gotten away witha murder of 200 civilians in Odessa; whynot deal in the same way with thousands ofthem in the East?

casualties. The residents of the town, thosewho could afford it, tried to leave it trans-port coming out of it was fired at.

Besides, the majority of objects destroyedby shellings were those of the towns infra-structure, and quite soon, its residentswere left without electricity, water, sewage

There was driven an incredible amount ofarmor to Slavyansk. There were tanks,APCs and ICVs, howitzers and mortars,planes and helicopters. The direct attackshaving proved to be unsuccessful juntasmilitary took up a practice of shelling thetown and its vicinity from a safe distanceand bombing it from the air, without any aiming at all which resulted in a lot of civil

system and gas. Then the governmentstopped paying salaries and pensions to theresidents of Slavyansk on the pretext of in-security of bringing money to the zone ofthe military operation and the UkrainianArmy totally surrounded the town prevent-ing even food and medicines from beingdelivered to it.



On the other hand, despite all the lies of theUkrainian government putting, as usual,blame for all the destruction and deaths onthe militia, Slavyansk had already becomea symbol of Resistance to Nazism and therestarted to arrive volunteers from all overthe world. There weren't a lot of them 90% of the militia were local men who,every day and with their own eyes, sawwhat exactly "the Great Ukrainian Army ofLiberation" was bringing to them, their

families and their children but their sup-port meant no less for the militia than theirbrilliant military commandment.

So, despite the huge advantage of theUkrainian Army in manpower, armoredvehicles, cannons and aircrafts, despite thefact that none of the militia had beenpreparing to a war and all of them had tolearn on the move, the garrison ofSlavyansk kept holding out.



At that moment, though, it was alreadycrystal clear that Kiev junta, in spite of thereferendum with its undeniable result, ter-rifying losses of the Ukrainian Army thatthey were thoroughly hiding from the pop-ulation of the country and a mere impossi-bility of winning a war against the people,was not going to leave Donbass be. It sim-ply couldn't afford it out of fear a fear ofimpeding economic collapse created bytheir own incompetence, a fear of theirWestern patrons who needed the wholecountry with all its riches, and a fear oftheir own supporters who, without a deci-sive victory", would never forgive them foranother humiliation and pointless deathsof their "brothers" on the Eastern front. So,remaining treacherous as it had alwaysbeen junta needed that war not only as acover for their crimes and faults, but as ameans to get rid of the most zealousMaidan activists as well.

Donbass, on its part, also realized that itwould not solve the problem of its safety byjust chasing the Ukrainian Army away fromthe borders of the People's republics, thatthe enemy would keep coming to enslavethem. So, for the people and the land thiswar became a simple matter of survival.Besides, in its struggle for freedom Don-bass was getting a lot of help from theCrimea in volunteers, finances, humani-tarianaid and accommodation for thepoor,and now the Donetsk and Lugansk People'sRepublics, having already united and pass-ing the baton, so to speak, to other regions,felt responsible for them in their aspirationfor freedom, independence and justice.

Thus came 22 May 2014 a truly historicdate for the people of the whole South-East of Ukraine. On that day at the Founding

Congress the union of the Donetsk and Lu-gansk People's Republics was transformedinto a new state with a beautiful nameNovorossiya that emerged from the depthof history like Aphrodite from the sea andit was declared to representatives of all theregionsof theSouth-East of former Ukraineand the whole world that this state wasopen for all those who wanted to join

It was obvious that Novorossiya wouldhave to both defend itself from junta andhelp its other future parts still occupied bythe Ukrainian military get liberated. So, allunits of the militia were united into theArmy of Novorossiya with the Headquar-ters in Donetsk even though the militia hadto leave Slavyansk and smaller towns andvillages for that. But the ranks of the Armyof Novorossiya started to swell with volun-teers who got something bigger to defendthan just their home and were eager toserve a greater cause, and after a propertraining it started to look like a real regulararmy while a unity of its command let itmove from defensive tactics to offensivestrategy.



Junta, of course, realized the significanceof Novorossiyas creation none the lessthan the people of it. Almost at the sametime, on 25 May, in Ukraine there wereheld the presidential elections and, eventhough the Crimea, the Donetsk People'sRepublic and the Lugansk People's Repub-lic didn't take part in them, the winneramong 21 candidates appeared after thefirst round with a dubious support of about55% at the turnout of about 60% and itturned out to be an oligarch PeterPoroshenko who had taken an active partin all Maidan events but hadn't yet made apart of the new authorities. Having beenelected the President he could havestopped the war, he could have called a ref-erendum on federalizations, he could havestarted negotiations with Novorossiya to,at least, keep good, mutually profitable re-lations with the escaped regions.

But being flesh and blood of junta he could-n't help following three main traditions oftheirs groveling before their Western pa-trons, lying about everything and sinkingtheir teeth in an opponent's throat at themoment of his weakest. BelievingNovorossiya to be completely helpless asall newborns are he did not stop the puni-tive operation in Donbass; he ordered tointensify it with all available militarymeans. When the Russian spring was fol-lowed by the Russian summer, that sum-mer turned out to be really hot.

In addition to tanks, mortars, howitzersand armored vehicles the Ukrainian Armystarted to use heavy artillery, rocket batterysystems like MRLS Grad and Uragan, airstrikes and even weapons forbidden by in-ternational conventions like phosphorusshells, cluster bombs and chemical

weapons. Again without aiming. Againfrom a safe distance. Again lying withoutbatting an eye that it was the rebels-sepa-ratists-terrorists who shelled their ownhouses and killed their own families,friends and neighbors. More and moretowns and villages were totally ruined,even Lugansk, the second largest city ofDonbass and the capital of the LuganskPeople's Republic, did not escape this fate.More and more objects of infrastructurewere destroyed so that Donbass be eco-nomically thrown decades back if it couldnot be tamed or erased from the face of theearth. More and more civilians were killed,or mutilated, or made to flee for their life.

But the Army of Novorossiya was growingin numbers and learning the art of war, andit was doing both things really fast. Gettingmore and more experienced its soldiersmanaged step by step solve the prob-lem of their disadvantage in armor. Therewere and still are a lot of talks of Russiasupplying the "rebels" with all possiblyimaginable sorts ofweapons and it is quitenatural that all of them were started, spreadand kept running by Kiev junta. Could theypossibly admit that a bunch of untrainedand unsupported by anyone bandits were



scaring their brave regular troops into scat-tering in all the directions and abandoningtheir armor of all kinds on the run?

And facing the Army of NovorossiyaUkrainian soldiers did run away because ifbefore they hadn't wanted to fight, nowthey didn't want to die. Besides, after sev-eral months of war they had come to un-derstand that their government did not carea bit about them. If they wanted good uni-forms or bulletproof vests they had to buythem themselves; they slept in tents and onmattresses of the times of the World WarII; more often than not they spent weekswithout food or water supply and it waslocal residents who fed them from theirown tables at the beginning, of course, be-fore the army started killing civilians.

So, now looking back at all that time afterMaidan started it becomes absolutely obvi-ous why Novorossiya is bound to surviveand prosper while junta is inevitably goingto fall. The latter hungered for power, gotit as a result of the illegitimate coup, builtits reign on lie and blood, didn't hesitate tosacrifice human lives for it, even those oftheir comrades, and, finally, has managedfor less than a year to ruin a relatively sta-ble and rather rich country, have thousandsof people killed and lose all the support theinitial ideas of Maidan brought them.

Having been surrounded they did not getany reinforcement and if they managed tobreak out of a pocket they were called de-serters. Their injured found out in hospitalthat they had consumer traumas and hadnot taken part in actions at all. Their deadwere not even sent home to be properlyburied but were thrown carelessly in acommon hole made by an excavator andcovered with soil by the same excavator.

There were even cases at the border of Rus-sia when being caught in a pocket betweena perspective of facing soldiers of Novo-rossiya and that of returning to their ownthey preferred to cross the border and sur-render to Russians. Some of them startedto speak about marching on Kiev and call-ing the authorities to justice.

Novorossiya, on the other hand, was bornout of the people's free will, defended itselfwith its own hands and blood, started fromthe scraps and counted on nothing but it-self, earned respect all over the world bythat and now is building itself on principlesof freedom, dignity, justice and decency all those principles that Maidan startedwith and has so bitterly failed, which itssupporters had better never forget



WWhat is a Patriot? True patriot-ism springs from a belief in thedignity of the individual, free-dom and equality not only for Americans,but for ALL PEOPLE OF THE EARTH Roosevelt.

The Declaration of Independence begins:When in the course of human events, itbecomes necessary for one people to dis-solve the political bonds which have con-nected them to another, and to assume,among the powers of the earth, the sepa-rate and equal station to which the laws ofnature and of natures God entitle them

It continues: We hold these truths to beself-evident:That allmenare created equal;that they are endowed by their Creator withcertain unalienable rights; that amongthese are life, liberty, and the pursuit ofhappiness; that, to secure these rights, gov-ernments are instituted among men, deriv-ing their just powers from the consent ofthe governed; that whenever any form ofgovernment becomes destructive of these

ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new govern-ment, laying on its foundation on suchprinciples, and organizing its powers insuch form, as to them shall seem mostlikely to effect their safety and happiness.

It goes on to state: The history of the pres-ent King of Great Britain (Novorossiyacould insert here so-called President ofUkraine who usurped such so-called titlevia usurpation of a coup) is a history of re-peated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an ab-solute tyranny

Truly patriotic Americans, as a result of theDeclaration, understand then the wordUsurpation. Truly patriotic Americans seethat there was a coup dtat, a French termmeaning that there was an overthrow of theexisting government of Ukraine which hasnot been as yet successful by the USUR-PERS in establishing total political controlover all regions previously governed by theprevious government that was usurped.

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The usurpers, by first taking control of Kievby force, now seek in vain to expand thatcontrol and attempt to establish a so-calledlegitimacy if they can establish tyrannyover areas such as Crimea, Donetsk, andLugansk. Truly patriotic Americans see thisas a self-evident truth.

But the colonies eventually recognized byGreat Britain in the 1783 Treaty of Paris asthirteen SOVEREIGN, FREE and INDE-PENDENT States did not obtain suchrecognition without outside help. In 1778they received recognition by France andthen Holland. Great Britain declared warupon both. Up to this point, things had notgone well for the colonies in what waseventually a seven-year effort, as GreatBritain utilized rented German mercenar-ies to help them suppress American inde-pendence. History, it often seems to repeatitself, does it not?

Interestingly, even the tyrant AbrahamLincoln which the States Rights support-ers of the American South so despise statedback in 1848 in American Congress, Anypeople ANYWHERE, being inclined andhaving the power, have the right to rise up,and shake off the existing government, andform a new one that suits them better. Thisis a most valuable most sacred right aright, which we hope and believe, is to lib-erate the world. Lincoln represented theState of Illinois, whose State Motto, even tothis day remains, State Sovereignty first,National Union second. In other words,Liberty and States Rights is supposed to beheld dearer than being held in bondageinto an unwanted union. Yet even Lincoln,unlike Poreshenko, never called his oppo-sition terrorists. Even the War betweenthe United States and the now occupiedConfederate States was never called ananti-terrorist operation.

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LLand, its mineral resources, water,flora and fauna, large-scale indus-trial and monetary active asserts,built by labor of people, will be property ofthe people of Novorossiya and cannot be inprivate ownership. Use and disposal of nat-ural resource cannot be exercised contraryto the interest of people.

The hardpan of economical wealth will behi-tech production with high-value added.Advances in fundamental branches of sci-ence and development of high and second-ary education are necessary to realize thesetechnologies.

Economic structure of Novorossiya will befounded on social justice and multistruc-turality principles.

Political-economy system of Novorossiyawill establish conditions in which unjustenrichment through the larceny and cor-ruption will be impossible.

The State will take upon itself the functionsof supporting indigent, at-risk group, dis-abled people and people in need, which willbe provided from carrying out business ac-tivities of the state and using its assets.

Large property, industrial and financial re-sources will belong to the state, middlelevel production and household objects canbelong to groups, while small productionsand economic objects created by privatemanufacturers can be owned privately.

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IIstrongly believe in our States principlewhich is that it's not a person who'scalled to serve a State but a State iscalled to serve each person.

This principle should be taken as a basis ofa national policy in any sphere, a true pol-icy for the sake of a real and free society.What is a REAL FUTURE? Future is not aremote prospect. Future means here andnow and it is our choice. It is us whochoose a rapidly growing, modern Statewhere every person bears responsibility forhis actions, studies, works, develops him-self and aims for the better.

We choose a State where arbitrary rules areinadmissible, where everyone is equal be-fore the law whatever his social positionmight be, and where an independent judi-ciary really works.

We choose a real future as we want to liveand be happy in our own country; we wantto work, to build, to make discoveries andbreakthroughs in science and art for thebenefit of Novorossia.

I am deeply convinced that the mainwealth of Novorossia is its people's humanpotential.

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We must set ourselves the task of creating a new politicalsystem that will have nothing in common with the formerUkrainian oligarchic policy. The new power must be thatof people and answer to none but them

Pavel Gubarevat the Founding Congress ofthe SPM Party Novorossiya22 May 2014

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