i’m sorry if this makes some users here feel old lol but i was a preteen and apolitical obviously when this happened so i genuinely know nothing about this situation. does it have anything to do with nato? i’m just curious to get a marxist analysis of this situation

  • meth_dragon [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    2004 orange revolution -> 2014 coup

    both times ousting the same 'both sides' guy in favor of a pro-western candidate

    shit got progressively worse for ethnic russians in ukraine during this period, and got exponentially worse after. lots of places tried to secede from ukraine afterwards, only crimea succeeded because it was the only place russia decided to directly intervene in. places like donetsk and lugansk where the referendums passed were not recognized by russia, referendums failed in places like odessa and kharkov for various reasons, one of the most prominent being because the nazis killed everyone.