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Ukrainian riot police officer burned alive

The picture caption is incorrect. According to officially available information no police officer was actually burnt to death, although some suffered burns of various degrees in a course of clashes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.3.50.254 (talk) 09:31, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seems fine, I will replace the image with other. Bladesmulti (talk) 13:53, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion of a recent revert

Regarding this recent revert with the edit summary "And you are lynching Negroes." I'm not a fan of the Soviet Union (I agree to a large extent with Noam Chomsky that the USSR can be described to some degree as "a dungeon with a floor on human suffering"). But the WP article "And you are lynching Negroes" strikes me as an awful article. It appears to be nothing more than a hit-piece, nothing more than a vacuous piece of Orwellian-style propaganda. Some parts of the article are not supported by reliable sources, and the sources cited appear to be designed to block and preempt legitimate allegations of US cynicism and US hypocricy by broadly and mendaciously painting any and all such allegations as ridiculous and thus illegitimate.

Take "And you are lynching Negroes", and invert it (i.e., perform a process similar to some extent to that described in WP: Boomerang), that is, replace every occurrence of 'soviet union' (or the other so-called 'communist' or 'socialist' countries appearing in "And you are lynching Negroes") with the U.S., and replace every occurrence of the U.S. (or the 'West') with the Soviet Union, and replace every source ridiculing the Soviet Union with a mirror source ridiculing the U.S. (or the 'West). The resulting article is the mirror image of the original article, that is, another article that is just as "legitimate" as the current article. Or in other words, just another piece of vacuous propaganda and intellectually empty garbage, not fundamentally different than the vacuous propaganda of "[And you are lynching Negroes]]".

In other words, using "And you are lynching Negroes" is not valid reasoning to support the recent revert. I'd like to respectfully ask the reverting editor to please articulate a legitimate, convincing reason for the revert, not using nonsense such as "And you are lynching Negroes." Otherwise the content should be restored. Thanks, IjonTichy (talk) 01:26, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]