EDIT: These images were released by the US yesterday as a catalog of US Defense attache Col. Stewart's activities in Ukraine. This is fresh slop.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    What? No. The people of Crimea and Donetsk consider themselves socialists. They still sing the soviet version of the national anthem, not the edited newer russian one. The separatists are extremely leftist.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        A little in Column A and Column B. The people certainly are, whether all of the factions involved are or are not is less important, it is what the people care about. It wouldn't be a popular image otherwise.

    • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      My problem is with Russia to be fair. They are basically using this for their own gain, so the separatists are going to get shafted anyway, regardless of how this goes.

    • Starlet [she/her, it/its]
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      4 years ago

      https://adcmemorial.org/wp-content/uploads/lgbtENG_fullwww.pdf

      Even more bigoted is this statement by the deputy minister for political affairs of the so-called DNR: “A culture of homosexuality is spreading... This is why we must kill anyone who is involved in this.”

      If this is inaccurate I apologize, I can't read Russian to verify this myself.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Yes this is a problem, but it's absolutely liberal propaganda. The entire bit they're doing is to claim Ukraine is somehow liberal while these territories are lgbt-phobic because they're out of Ukraine's control, this is absolutely fucking false. The fascists that control Ukraine are much, much worse.

        Generally speaking eastern europe all has an lgbt problem. This is not really related to the separatism and the fascists as well as Europe are trying to abuse people's mistaken belief that Ukraine is politically similar to Europe to mislead people on these issues.