DONETSK, UKRAINE ¨C It is part Soviet theme park, part wacky anti-Western wonderland. Stuck to the barricades outside the ¡°Donetsk People¡¯s Republic¡± are several caricatures of U.S. President Barack Obama.
There is Obama as Hitler, complete with mustache. There is Obama, Bonaparte and the Fuhrer, and the words: ¡°They all thought their nations were superior.¡± And there is Obama as a monkey. (The monkey-Obama, visible on Friday, had disappeared by Saturday.)
Further inside, past a wall of tires, activist Vitaly Akulov stood beneath a flag of Stalin. The Soviet leader had a Kalashnikov. Wasn¡¯t he responsible for the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens? ¡°Without a tough czar who uses harsh methods you can¡¯t build an imperium,¡± Akulov observed. Other banners read: ¡°F-ck EU and USA,¡± ¡°Donbass with Russia¡± and ¡°Russians should be together!¡±
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