• JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    they surely are not hiding it, yikes.

    Comrade during the uprising lots of Communists were just straight up executed in the streets by police. Not a word of it in Western MSM. Nazis also set fire to a trade union building with communists, socialists and trade unionists inside it where 39 people died (either burned to death or jumped from the windows)

    https://www.rt.com/news/156480-odessa-fire-protesters-dead/

    Where was the outrage in the western press about Ukrainian minorities not receiving education in their native languages anymore?

    They do not care. They wanted this exact scenario for Belarus also. The Belarus opposition basically ran on the same platform: de-communisation, making Belarus only language of Belarussia, and de"russification" ie. persecute Russian speakers and communists and those whose first language is Russian

    Hear Lukashenko railing against the racist oppositionists that want to remove the other languages of Belarus and the creeping destruction of the Russian language

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZ6Rbr_npE

    In the following to the recent conflict in Donetsk and Luhansk the last I heard was that the Communists had largely been sidelined despite their heroism against Kiev nazis however they have basically de-coupled from Ukraine though have yet the ability to produce their own passports so have turned to Russia to get Russian passports.

    There is still shelling of villages in Donetsk by Ukrainian nazis and Ukrainian Nazis recently broke the minsk protocol so Russia (I think) will have to step in to defend them shortly. I am not sure about recent news of Lugansk but seeing as they signed Minsk I think they are in the same situation as Donetsk

    Peoples Republic of Donetsk news agency https://dan-news.info/en/

    https://theduran.com/the-peoples-republics-of-lugansk-and-donetsk/

    • CoralMarks [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It is pretty crazy how completely different the Maidan was painted in the West, I have to admit I was at that time also still a lib and believed that this was a good thing so they could get out from under Putins boot, that was in hindsight obviously pretty stupid of me. That I until today didn't know that those snipers in Kiev were a false flag puts the cherry on top.

      I remember reporting about that tragedy in Odessa as well, and I'm pretty sure it was painted as Russian aligned people or something like that being fought back by Ukrainian freedom fighters. Of course they didn't care to mention that these freedom fighters were Nazis and other such good folks.

      Ukraine seems really fucked in any way you look at it. And then they get this Comedian Zelenskiy bankrolled by this billionaire Kolomoisky:

      Kolomoisky is known for a number of seizures of state assets, including operations where he was able to sue the Ukrainian government for millions. One of his calling cards in the past 20 years has been using his own army of thugs in supporting various hostile takeovers, from factories to state energy companies. His alliance with the Euromaidan coalition led to him being appointed governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Among the numerous armed groups of men who formed the backbone of Euromaidan, Kolomoiski saw an opportunity to bolster the ranks of his private security forces.
      He is the principal funder of the far-right organisations who came out of the events, including Right Sector - who torched the KPU offices in Kiev - and the openly neo-Nazi Azov battalion, now organised as the Nats Korpus political party. In 2015, his thugs seized the HQ of the partially state-owned oil company UkrTransNafta, which led to his falling out with Poroshenko and dismissal as governor, as well as the state nationalisation of PrivatBank.
      source

      Let's hope that the people, after being disillusioned again - now by this president, will realize that it would be best to return to tradition. :cat-com:
      But I guess that is more wishful thinking than anything else.

      Big thanks for those links on Donetsk and Luhansk, I will give that a look later. :fidel-salute:

      • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Lukashenko is responding to the oppositions platform which was released on the oppositions website before they took it down

        Someone managed to archive the site though and can be read in full here

        https://old.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/idu3nu/privatization_and_decommunization_what_the/

        • return the status of the only state language to the Belarusian language;

        To your

        ; it seems weird to me that the opposition would alienate such a large portion of the population during a time they need as much support as they can get.

        Comrade the opposition only got 10 percent of the vote then claimed victory. Fascists have never been very clever. I guess we can um and ar whether the election was rigged but I think its clear Lukashenko had a majority despite how many CIA paid protestors the opposition are able to get out waving the nazi collaboratoring white-red-white flag

        Ukraine fascists split the country in 2, ruined their own countrymen and now pay premium price for US gas instead of cheap Russian gas.

        Hitler made Germany the 5th largest power in Berlin... etc. etc.

        Fascists want power and they'd consider being king of the ashes worth it. They aren't very clever

        Read through this article to understand the nazi origins of a lot of the symbols in the Belarus protests

        https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=tr&u=https://www.a3haber.com/2020/08/17/belarus-muhalefetinin-neo-nazi-kokenleri-mesele-abd-rusya-kapismasi-mi/&prev=search&pto=aue