Ukrainians Are Having a Delightful Day at the Abandoned Presidential Palace

[chaya]

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[clevermanka]

This is the best thing I'm going to see all day. I'm telling myself that those are some sort of hateful documents floating in the water, and not books.

[evilnel]

Oh, they were. He had lists of people he took bribes from and plans about military action against the protestors, among other things. He dumped them all before he ran. Personally, I'd have burned them, but that's me.

[clevermanka]

AWESOME.

[evilnel]

Unfortunately, it seems like he's still causing trouble. Reports aren't clear about whether he made it to Russia or is being held somewhere (or just hiding), and Putin may try to use finding him as a reason to move into Crimea. It's be super nice of Putin would stop it with the taking over the world thing now, and just let Ukrainians set up a democratic government in peace. :/

[mareen]

But don't you know, he's only doing it for the sake of democracy. /sarcasm

[mareen]

Eastern German Stasi shredded them before they fled in 1989. That's why there are still people in Germany working on putting them back together again today.

[evilnel]

Oh God, imagine being assigned that task.

[mareen]

It is actually the reason the world leading computer programme for putting shredded paper back together was invented in Germany a few years back.

But in the beginning (1989 and early 1990s), they actually had many, many people sitting in offices, going through every single stripe of paper and sticking them back together. As far as I remember from the documentary I saw, they were mostly volunteers. And I had no idea about that computer programme until I that documentary. Fascinating stuff!

And what it tells me about the Ukraine is that the will also not give up until they have brought to light whatever can be brought to light.