I feel like these takes are getting more unhinged with each passing month.

  • vertexarray [any]
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    1 year ago

    Is it the case that Ukrainians are returning to find their homes occupied by strangers? or is this user just imagining that Russia is 100% indistinguishable from Nazi Germany?

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Seems like it's liberal Ukraine Flag Emoji delusion.

      I work with refugee charities, follow this stuff reasonably closesly, and have never seen anything on this except vague unattributed accusations of this from UK/US twitter libs. I'm sure there might be individual cases of people made homeless by the war squatting etc, but the UNHCR published the results of a study and survey on this month on the intentions of and challenges facing Ukrainian refugees to return home. There's no mention of people's homes being occupied or given to other people. In fact, more than 50% of refugees have returned to their homes for short periods to either see family who didn't leave, get or update important documents, retrieve sentimental items etc.

      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I think this is unconsciously misplacing how Israeli settlers will literally kick out palestinians and then squat their houses, and identifying that as Ukraine/Russia