If ever there was a piece of Kremlin generated dis-information, co-directed by Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian lackey, Victor Medvechuk- this is it! Oh, supporting star and Kremlin conspiracy apostle Oliver Stone deserves even greater condemnation as someone who should know better. The premise of this show is that Russia is the victim and Ukraine the bad guys. Ask yourself these questions: 1. Why no mention of the Russia-Ukraine Treaty of 2003 agreeing that both Ukraine and Russia have equal access to the Sea of Azov, which Treaty Russia has violated. Did I mention, the Treaty was signed by Vladimir Putin? 2. Why was there no mention of MH17, the singapore Airlines plane shot down, which every non-partial investigation has pointed to a Russian fired missile. 3. The show says Ukraine seceded from the USSR with a majority vote! Really, the vote was 91.3% in favor and was approved in every area of Ukraine including Donbas and Crimea. 4. Ukraine's defense industry is in shambles? Then explain why during the last year it has won contracts from India, Thailand and other countries for state of the art Ukraine manufactured tanks and armaments. Ukraine is also now in the commercial rocket space launch business. 5. Putin grew up in Leningrad and know very little if nothing about Ukraine so when he talks about one nation or people it is like someone saying Mercury and Mars are the same planet. The one point that the show is correct about is that Ukraine is a democracy and Russia is not AND Putin cannot stand the idea of a democracy and a tolerant society on his border- that is true. However, the danger is not Ukraine but Russia and the United States knows that.

If you want to see an excellent example of Russian disinformation, this is the show to watch. Putin doesn't think UKRAINE was ever a country? Then what was 1918 when Ukraine was recognized by two dozen countries had diplomatic relations, passports, currency, international sovereign debt and was a democracy? And, what about the year 988 when Ukraine became Christian. Moscow didn't even exist. It was a fur trading post. The coins issued by Volodymyr the Great show the Ukrainian Trident on the reverse (tails side). If Kyiv was Russian and Prince Volodymyr was Russian-- why doesn't Russia use the Trident as it's symbol anywhere? Instead it is the National Emblem of Ukraine and nowhere to be found in Russia. In fact, Russian Czars and the Communists persecuted Ukrainians for wearing or showing the Trident. Don't believe me research it. And, BTW, Mr. Stone knows as much about the history of Ukraine as he does about the assainstion of John F. Kennedy.

Let's talk with facts. The movie from Oliver Stone is completely one sided. We have no presentation of both positions in the conflict and no neutral commentary on them. We get only the pro-Russian views. It is unprofessional and manipulative to show only the one view and one opinion in a conflict. Thus the movie does not cover any journalistic standards for quality and it is ridiculous to rate it with ratings like 8, 9, or 10 stars. The movie deals with two topics - was the Maidan revolution bottom-up or top-down organised. And the American interference in Ukrainian politics. On both topics I could agree with the positions shown in the movie. This does not however change two important topics that are conveniently not covered in the movie. 1. No matter if the Maidan was bottom-up or top-down organised, the former president Yanukovich was an extremely corrupt politician and he deserved to be impeached and trialed. His house is now a museum where one can go and see for himself the luxury he was living in despite the low per capita GDP of Ukraine. 2. Much more important however is the topic of the war. And this topic is much more important than who shot 100 people at the Maidan and the American elections. The absolute fact is the following: Without Russian military interference in Donbas, the war would have ended in 2014. Ukraine is a huge country with 40 Million population, with a large army, large military spendings, and military industrial complex with own tank production. It is actually in top 10 in the world in weapons production. The separatist region is approximately 5% of the Ukrainian territory. It is ridiculous to even consider that Ukraine can't enforce their control over the territory of Donbas if they were fighting separatists with limited supplies. The war lasts for years because they fight against Russian supplies. So Mr. Putin is the one that could stop the war. But he doesn't because the war is directly in the interests of Russia. Why? Reason 1: Because Donbas can be used as a bargaining chip for the recognition of the Crimean annexation. Ukraine recognises that Crimea is now part of Russia and Russia returns Donbas. Simple as that. Reason 2: Russia invests a lot in spreading the idea that Ukraine has no economic future without Russia and that the fall of the Soviet Union and the orientation towards the west bring only economic misery to Ukraine. The message is - with the EU and the US you are going to be poor, come back to your Russian brothers. What better way to keep a country poor than maintaining a military conflict to suck the taxpayers money and to scare away potential EU investors.

These are the facts, Gentleman. I agree with the opinions in the movie regarding the Maidan events, but they are not the major issue. And with this one sided representation, Mr. Stone contributed too little to the pursuit of justice and truth.