Reply #67: My husband is from Kyiv and all my in-laws are there

[chatnoir]

And we watch the news from there nightly. Everything you just said comes straight out of the mouths of Russia-centric politicians there like Vitrenko. Certain parties there make the US into a kind of bogeyman, similar to what is now happening with the artificial brewing of panic over Iran.

Such 'tales' (as my husband calls them) about US interference began back in 2004, when it was said from the Yanukovich party and his supporters, "Yusch makes a revolution with US money, he has US advisers, he even has an American wife! It is all US maneuvers to buy Ukraine, the same way they already bought Georgia', etc. An artificial anti-American hysteria managed from Russia by political strategists (Gleb Pavlovsky, the most prominent, was also linked to the dioxin poisoning of Yuschenko).

The Region's Party (Yanukovich's party), had an American adviser themselves for awhile (at that point the anti-American hysteria calmed), but several months back they fired him and hired Russian advisers - and the hysteria began again.

Sorry if this is a bit scattered - I've been a member for years but never felt compelled to post before now. :)