Our frenzied Western media would have us believe that the Ukrainian population are four square behind their comedian ultra nationalist president. Of course that is untrue, but the West have to get you to believe this so that you will throw your support behind this ultra-nationalist regime. That's how this economic system works, power-blocks fight for control of markets and resources, In 1939 it was disguised as Western so called democracy fighting fascist Germany, 2022, its Western so called democracy supporting Fascist Ukraine in an attempt to weaken an economic rival, Russia. This in no way means I support the Russian intrusion into Ukraine, War is always the enemy of the ordinary people, who gain nothing from the slaughter and bloodshed.
This comedian ultra nationalist president has banned most left thinking parties, banned all 18 to 60 year old males from leaving the country, he needs them as cannon fodder. He has supported and integrated into its security forces, the neo-Nazi Azov Brigade. A group over 1,000 strong whose aim is to "purify" Ukraine of Russian blood. Still our media play the part of the Western imperialist's mouthpiece and sing the praise of this fascist regime, calling it defending democracy, in a country where the established power has strangled democracy in favour of ultra nationalism.
The following is an extract from Struggle la lucha:
This reporter spoke with someone who would only go by the name, “Pavel.” He belongs to a now-banned Kyiv-based Ukrainian Marxist group. Pavel recently moved from Ukraine to Bucharest, Romania, and declined to give his real name or the name of his group. In 2015, the Communist Party was outlawed in Ukraine, on grounds it promoted “separatism.” More recently, on March 22, a month into the Russian incursion, Zelensky banned 11 mostly left-wing opposition parties. Pavel cited these bans, and the well-being of his family remaining in Ukraine, as reasons for his anonymity.
“Anyone who says anything against the military, protests against NATO, or really, opposes the government from any direction, is immediately labeled ‘pro-Russian,’” the 26-year-old told Toward Freedom. “Anyone is bound to rat you out as a Russian spy if they disagree with you: Nationalists or even other ‘leftists,’ like anarchists or progressives. Most of the country has joined forces with the nationalists. SBU [Ukrainian Secret Service] will catch wind of a protest, a meeting, or an article, and they’ll speak to their friends in the ‘civil society,’ who will send armed nationalists to ‘handle’ you.”
He spoke of a close comrade from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, who had made statements on Facebook before February 24 against NATO interference in Ukraine and in support of the Minsk Agreements, the 7-year-old brokered cease-fire accords between the Ukrainian government and Donbass separatists, who had declared independence for two Ukrainian oblasts (states), Donetsk and Lugansk. Pavel said this person had gone into hiding in early March because nationalist groups had threatened their life. The person believed nationalists were still searching for them. Pavel and the person in hiding know of others who had disappeared in years prior.
Beyond this exchange, and a handful of correspondences on WhatsApp and Telegram, it has been next to impossible to find Ukrainian war resisters who had left the country to speak on the record. This is unsurprising given that one month ago, Zelensky issued a decree of martial law, banning most men ages 18 to 60 from leaving the country.
