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by xi 4343 days ago
Which means that there is an "excess of 1.5 millions of people" in Donetsk Region, that "[people of] Donetsk Region mustn't be undestood [by the people from the rest of Ukraine], and Donetsk Region [and it's people] must be used as a resource instead" and "I don't know how to solve that problem [to remove excessive civilians], but the main thing is that some people must be physically eliminated".

Wow, this is truly creative editing. None of your insertions are implied from the context and the quotes you picked up are several minutes apart. In particular, he talks about 1.5 millions of people lacking meaningful job prospects as one of the causes of the unrest (which is true). A few minutes later, when he talks about about killing people, nowhere he implies millions of civilians, in fact, it's obvious he means armed militants.

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I've probably been too emotional about this interview, sorry about that. You are right, he can be interpreted differently.

I have people that I know on both sides of Ukraine and everything that is going on creeps me out completely.

Good to see that you can take facts pipy -- and thanks xi for doing better than I did in discussing.

I -- and probably most people -- have been in the situation where we lost contact with reality, because we have read too much spin, even if the subjects are serious problems.

It is not easy. Good luck pipy. (And good luck to Russia and Ukraine -- they both deserve a break after the last century.)

> Good luck pipy. (And good luck to Russia and Ukraine [...])

Thank you. And you and your compatriots too.

Compatriots?

If you mean the Swedes, they should be OK (except for the grief they create themselves). Sweden is probably not on Putin's top 10 list... :-) :-(

Or do you mean Emacs/Perl/JavaScript guys? :-)