Comments by "turquoisestones" (@turquisestones) on "How Russia Indoctrinates Children: New History Textbooks" video.
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"The only sensible thing for Europeans to do is to dismantle the Russian Federation"
- :) :) :) Guys, you won't be able to dismantle my country Russia. It is just impossible. Especially now. Don't just take my word for it. Just learn some history and see that whoever tried to do that, eventually failed, and failed badly. However, if you don't want to have further problems with Russia, then start with yourselves:
Firstly, admit that the bombardment of Yugoslavia in 1999 without the approval of the UN Security Council, which all of you in the West were so much supportive of, was a blatant act of violation of international law, as well as the UN charter. That was when you lost Russia's credibility. And yet you have continued to expand NATO, the violator of international law, eastwards - even despite Russia's concerns that were voiced by Russia so many times!
Secondly, admit that the current war in Ukraine is nothing less than the war between Russia and the criminal NATO. Admit that this war started not one year ago, but already nine years ago when the "Revolution of Dignity" took place in Kyiv while the Constitution of Ukraine forbids any revolutions. It was because of this unconstitutional change of state power that Donbas (East of Russia) refused to submit to Kyiv, after which the acting President of Ukraine Turchinov then deployed troops in Donbas starting shelling the region killing thousands of civilians.
And if you continue your hypocrisy in the way indoctrinating your peoples in the West through mass media about the "unprovoked invasion by Russia" then don't expect things to become any better - it will all be becoming only worse and worse.
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 @paulgudedeberitz2335 "I understand that this is what you have been told in Russia, but it is not historically correct"
- :) :) :) For you information, I've already been living for 20 years outside of Russia. And all I have been doing through all these years is comparing western propoganda to the Russian one. In fact, most of what was happening in Ukraine within the last ten years I have been observing more through the Western media as where I live (in Asia) I have more access to the Western media then to the Russin ones.
"this video seems to be a truthful account of the Donbas situation"
- You really made me "admire" you! :) You give me a link to a talking head that most likely has never even been in Donbas showing some book that was urgently written by Ukrainian authors and only in Ukrainian language and you already say "seems to be truthful account about Donbass". Are you really that gulliable? Well, I have friends and relatives living in Donbass. Some of them came to Russia back in 2014, and some came just recently. Besides I had visited them in Donbas many times before the "Revolution of Dignity" and once, shortly, right after it. No one needs to tell me the "right situation of Donbas" because I saw everything with my own eyes. However, don't take my word for it. You can simply consider one small undeniable fact - there has never been any local uprising in Donbas against the Russian forces in it, and, on the contrary, there was a huge local resistance to those who had been sent by Turchinov from Kyev to "re-submit" Donbas. If there were any such local uprising against Russian forces or even some kind of Russian influence, rest assured that BBC or CNN right away would have reported that. However, they failed to find any despite desperately looking for such ones then in Donbas. All I remember is CNN report, in which one woman in Donbass was saying that she felt calm and protected thanks to the quickly formed local army in Donbas ready to protect them from possible attack from Kyiv.
Now back to that talking head in the link you gave me. He simply lied saying that people in Donbas were then very poor. People there were neither poorer than other Ukrainians in other regions, nor richer. He also lied about "passports issued in Donbas not being treated in the same way as in Russia proper". Many of my friends and relatives from Donbas have no problems using their passports in Russia proper. I've already left my comment there and I asked the author of that video to provide proof to this claim of his.
And, of course, he didn't say the most important thing: whatever happened in Donbas, legal or illegal, was a direct consequence of the illegal change of state power that had taken place in Kiev in February 2014 as a result of the "Revolution of Dignity," while the Ukrainian Constitution forbids any kind of revolution. Those who came to power were, in fact, criminals because they had usurped state power through unconstitutional means. After that, the new authorities in Kyiv, specifically the acting president Turchinov, had no legal right over Donbas. However, it was Turchinov who ordered tanks to go to Donbas, and the shelling of Donbas was ordered by Turchinov, too.
And yes, there were no Russian troops in Donbas before the "Revolution of Dignity", not even Girkin and his people; it all became possible only after the unconstitutional change of state power in Kiev in February
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