the Donbas, in Eastern Ukraine, has always been a very largely Russian area for centuries. post 1991 it ended up in Ukraine, now independent from the Soviet Union. in 2013/14 there was a colour revolution, likely CIA involvement, against a more pro Russian sceptical of working with the EU guy, and a lot of the nationalists in Ukraine who are very anti Russia and pro NATO ended up coming to power. and so in the Donbas, Russian speakers started to organise and fight against this now very anti Russian Ukraine. neo nazi groups, such as Azov battalion, took up arms against these Russians and fought alongside the Ukrainian army in quite a bloody civil war that saw a lot of civilians killed in Ukrainian army attacks. it's very much undoubtable Ukraine is full of nazis that straight up do the Roman salute and use swastikas and all that; though the 2 Donbas republics are not exactly the most left wing guys of all time either themselves to say the least
they are pretty prevalent in Ukrainian politics, especially after 2014. even the centrist party in power openly have wanted to push 'Ukranianisation'. Azov Battalion, open neo nazis, straight up have their own wing of the Ukrainian military and openly push their views . it's like a lot of post Soviet countries, after the collapse of the Soviet Union nationalism massively surged in most of these places, because of the extremely poor economic conditions of people, similar things can be seen in East Germany, Russia, Poland, the Baltics, ect
John Mearsheimer's given talks on the subject from a realist perspective (he's not even our type of lib). Important to note is the post-coup parliament immediately began passing laws to restrict minority language rights (= Russophones in the east), which is what spurred organization in the Donbas.
the Donbas, in Eastern Ukraine, has always been a very largely Russian area for centuries. post 1991 it ended up in Ukraine, now independent from the Soviet Union. in 2013/14 there was a colour revolution, likely CIA involvement, against a more pro Russian sceptical of working with the EU guy, and a lot of the nationalists in Ukraine who are very anti Russia and pro NATO ended up coming to power. and so in the Donbas, Russian speakers started to organise and fight against this now very anti Russian Ukraine. neo nazi groups, such as Azov battalion, took up arms against these Russians and fought alongside the Ukrainian army in quite a bloody civil war that saw a lot of civilians killed in Ukrainian army attacks. it's very much undoubtable Ukraine is full of nazis that straight up do the Roman salute and use swastikas and all that; though the 2 Donbas republics are not exactly the most left wing guys of all time either themselves to say the least
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they are pretty prevalent in Ukrainian politics, especially after 2014. even the centrist party in power openly have wanted to push 'Ukranianisation'. Azov Battalion, open neo nazis, straight up have their own wing of the Ukrainian military and openly push their views . it's like a lot of post Soviet countries, after the collapse of the Soviet Union nationalism massively surged in most of these places, because of the extremely poor economic conditions of people, similar things can be seen in East Germany, Russia, Poland, the Baltics, ect
John Mearsheimer's given talks on the subject from a realist perspective (he's not even our type of lib). Important to note is the post-coup parliament immediately began passing laws to restrict minority language rights (= Russophones in the east), which is what spurred organization in the Donbas.
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