‘Yes’, Sveta agreed. ‘Lviv declared independence for Ukraine whilst 15,000 rallied under the Russian flag in Simferopol. I think Svoboda and Pravy Sektor are being funded by Judaic interests. Poroshenko, the chocolate magnate, is one of the Chosen. So is Yulia Tymoshenko. She urged the “wiping out of all the katsaps.”’ Tom looked unsure. ‘It is a bad name the Ukrainians have for Russians’, she explained. ‘There is talk once again of child ritual murders in Kiev, like the Youshchinsky case back in 1911.’
‘Look, we still have people like Igor Strelkov supporting Alexander Bordai and Igor Plotnitsky in Lugansk’, Alexander insisted. Then for Tom’s benefit, he added, ‘Strelkov’s the centurion who took the executive building in Sloviansk with the tacit support of the Defence Minister, Sergei Shoygu.’
‘Isn’t Strelkov former SBU?’ asked Tom. No one seemed sure.
‘Some say he goes by the alias Girkin, too.’ Sveta shrugged.
‘But his open call for support from the Kremlin didn’t get universal support, certainly not from Sergey Kurginyan of the All Russian Patriotic Movement, or even that GRU crony Vladislav Surkov’, Tom said, nonplussed.
‘That was a mistake we will live to regret’, acknowledged Grigori. ‘But the grey cardinal doesn’t play all his cards at once. And anyway, the Duginites are concerned that the architect of managed democracy, as we call him, is really an Israeli agent.’
‘Our people in Donetsk are the vanguard for Novorossiya!’ Alexander blurted. ‘I liked what Zakharenchenko said about the Jew pencilnecks. “I can’t remember a time when Cossacks were led by people who had never held a sword in their hands.”’
‘They’ve even got women’s fighting units in the people’s militia’, Sveta added.
‘That bastard Kolomoisky gave the order for the shootings in Odessa, but all we hear is whining from that Chief Rabbi Azman!’ Dimitry was less than impressed. ‘And that Zionist front-man, Petro Poroshenko, is still calling for total war with Russia!’
‘There was a time when Putin claimed Russia could take Kiev in two weeks’, Tom contributed.
‘With what result, more Slav deaths? More mourning mothers crying over sealed coffins in Ussurikysk? Hundreds of thousands of our people fleeing to camps in border areas like Sumy?’ said Alexander.
‘The EU has special forces in western Ukraine operating under cover of a no-fly zone, and we have civil strife in the East. It is just like the partition of Cyprus’, Dimitry postulated. Grigori looked on.
‘And the Jews are working to control the oil and gas deposits in the Mediterranean Sea, also!’
• Following the installation of NATO’s Missile Defence Shield, President Babel signs a new strategic arms agreement with the UN, NATO, and the EU confirming Russia’s compliance with the non-use of strategic weapons to resolve current geopolitical disputes. Teams of UN inspectors arrive at various missile launch sites to monitor the situation;
• Pro-Putin deputies in the Duma speak to a large crowd gathered in Manege Square calling for the former President’s return to office;
• State media show Prime Minister Viktor Akulov lighting candles at the funeral for those killed in Ufa;
• The Russian 31st Separate Airborne Assault Brigade are flown in to Leonidovka from their home base in Ulyanovsk to secure chemical weapon stores;
• UN peacekeeping forces cross the Polish-Ukrainian border at Eava-Ruska and Ustrzyki-Dolne;
• The Muslim Federation’s offer to provide troops as part of the peacekeeping arrangements in Ukraine is warmly welcomed by the EU;
• Joint EU and Muslim forces operating west of the Dnieper stop their advance 50 kilometres from Kiev;
• EU leaders interrupt emergency meetings with the Russian delegation in Strasbourg about the best way to respond to the ‘Great Migration’ humanitarian crisis in order to face Jerusalem during their prayers;
• UN armoured columns comprising personnel carriers, and Leclerc and Polish PT-91 tanks supported by F-4E aircraft operating out of the Holzdorf Airbase enter Lutsk, Rivne, and Lviv;
• The encirclement of Ivano-Frankovsk results in mass arrests of extremists and allegations of mistreatment of deportees in the hastily established containment centres near Lublin and Zamosc;
• Rumours of mass drownings in Lake Hancza are steadfastly denied by sources in Brussels and Warsaw;
• The Royal Navy enters the Black Sea in a deliberate act of provocation against the Russian fleet based in Sevastopol.
‘What do you think the wars in Syria and the threats to Iran are all about?’ Grigori barked. ‘Americans scream about human rights but still support anti-Assad rebels who eat the hearts of their enemies. They fund groups like ISIS and see the world through a distorted lens. Some of our own worst gangsters have been welcomed to Western countries with open arms, and we have created scapegoats at home who our enemies champion as martyrs. Think of the journalists who have died mysteriously, the frauds like Khordokovsky and Berezovsky. They robbed Russia once and their type will try again.’
‘Things were different before, the old President got control over the oligarchs’, Dimitry asserted.
‘Or was their partner?’ Sveta echoed. ‘Putin was a functionary of the sistema. Who passed the law criminalising anyone challenging the findings of the Nuremberg trials? Who talked about the threat of militant nationalism? Both Fradkov and Chubais wear the Star of David. Lavrov went around Europe making speeches about the rise of anti-Semitism. I think he was a Fifth Columnist.’
‘We need someone like Alexander Lukashenko or Islam Karimov’, Dimitry demanded.
‘Head boilers!’ Sveta interjected. ‘Better, our old friend from Zavtra, Alexander Prokhanov, Zakhar Prilepin, and Konstantin Malofeev at the Valaam monastery.’
‘Yes, and also people like Baron Ungern-Sternberg, Captain Semenov, and Mikhail Drozdovsky, who liberated Rostov from the Red Army’, Tom chimed in wistfully.
‘I want a Zil-4112P to drive me around’, Alexander toasted drunkenly.
‘And an Ilyushin jet with a solid gold toilet to shit in!’ screeched Grigori.