Stalin might get a belly-laugh. Today's Russia, however, has improved considerably since Stalin, and even more after it ended communism and became just Russia without the Soviet Union and their economically crippling Marxist ideology. By contrast, the U.S. has recently been heading into fascism, and outdid itself by having installed in Ukraine a regime that's outright nazi. The U.S. now calls that 'democratic', as it spreads 'democracy' elsewhere too, such as in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and Syria.
Then, on September 25th, the world's great newspaper, the German Economic News, (or Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachtrichten) headlined "On the way into the authoritarian State: Ukraine introduces forced labor," and reported:
"The new rules announced by the Minister for social policy of labor service would mean the introduction of forced labor, which violates the European Convention on human rights" as[serted] Andrej Hunko, Member of the Bundestag and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. ... "Yatsenyuk's attempt to set forced labour now legally, is a further step towards an authoritarian society and must be stopped. This is the exact opposite of the supposed democratic development of Ukraine, as it is written by the Maidan movement."
The German newspaper said that this is being done "to absorb the consequences of the civil war." (Here's that war.)
Another news bulletin, this one undated, came from the Latvian site http://newstwenty4seven.com/en/news/ukraintsev-zastavjat-ryt-okopy. It's headlined "Ukrainians Forced to Dig Trenches"; and it opens, actually, with a photo of workers digging a ditch, perhaps for more war, or else for mass-burial (or maybe some other use). This report says:
The Ukrainian government has introduced the citizens' obligation to work, obliging them to perform tasks of a defensive nature in wartime conditions. This is reported by the press service of the Ministry of social policy of Ukraine, with reference to the head of Department Lyudmyla Denysova.
The government, according to Denisova, made changes in the recruitment of able-bodied persons to "socially useful work in conditions of martial law". In particular, they defined the term "labor service", which involves citizens in forced execution of jobs of a defensive nature, and emergencies in time of war, without their required consent.
"Socially useful work" refers to work at the state border, airfields and military fortifications, as well as [clearing] rubble, "the performance of work-related needs of the armed forces and other military formations".
To forced labor, it is planned to bring, in particular, the unemployed, students, farmers and individual entrepreneurs.
That news-source linked to the official Ukrainian announcement.
The background of this Ukrainian Government decision is that Ukraine is now bankrupt. It was so, even before the civil war, but the additional $17 billion that was recently lent to that Government by the IMF, in order to enable them to pay their soldiers and buy weapons and bullets to slaughter the people in the regions that didn't accept the legitimacy of the coup-imposed government, has only placed the Government even deeper into hock. The cost to Ukraine in order to achieve 'democratic' electoral stability by mass-murdering the population in the regions of the country that oppose the Obama-installed group and that had voted overwhelmingly for the man Obama overthrew, has turned out to be too high for it to be continued. Perhaps that's part of the reason why slavery is now being resorted to -- to cut costs, so that the Ukrainian Government can repay at least a portion of the money they were loaned by the IMF, U.S. and EU.
So, that's why the civil war that was started by Obama's February 2014 overthrow of Ukraine's President, toppling a man who was democratically elected in Ukraine's final nationwide vote, produced a new Government that is now collapsing. Since the West won't continue lending it money, the Government there will, it seems, now be enslaving some of its own citizens, in order to get done what the appointed rulers want to be done, such as to continue killing people who won't vote for them. If the enslavement of their own civilian population becomes too big and widespread to ignore, then perhaps The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc., will report about it, because they'll then be forced to. What's particularly interesting at the present early stage is that the people whom the Obama team placed in charge of Ukraine, want to do this, and that they think that by using such tortured vague language, very few people in the U.S. and EU will get to know that they're doing this. But already it's news on a German site, and also on a Latvian site. Perhaps the American public will be the last to find out, except for the few individuals that read about it here. At this news site, it's part of the "News That's Fit To Print," regardless of whether Big Brother feels that way about it, or maybe even because Big Brother doesn't feel that way about it.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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