Re: Footnotes from the Ukrainian "Crisis"; New High-Points in Cynicism Part IV
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The fight for Peski
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Original Article: Alexander Kots / Komsomolskaya Pravda
“We are on the road, always on the road, we do not move away, there are petals [antipersonnel mines]. If there is a buzz, we throw ourselves to the right of the road”. It's the last briefingbefore advancing on the town of Peski from the former DPR army forward positions. They have been here for eight years, holding the front line against the Ukrainian Army. The distance between the positions here was sometimes no more than a hundred or a hundred and fifty meters. Provocations, night clashes, positional warfare… for all these years, the Ukrainian Army's artillerymen, also from Peski, have been a nightmare for the residents of Donetsk and nearby cities. Many in Donbass have retaliated, they have stormed Peski with special passion. All of Donetsk has been able to hear it.
I hadn't been here for five months, and in this time, the capital of the DPR has changed so much that it is unrecognizable. The happy and kind city is now deserted, weeds grow between the tiles of Pushkin Boulevard, and, like in a post-apocalyptic movie, two refilled bottles of water are delivered to the hotel reception instead of mineral water. For almost six years, Donetsk has not been a front city, now it is the front. There are interruptions in the supply of water and electricity, daily shelling and the idea of a “safe zone” no longer exists here. The constant sound of cannon fire acts on the nerves like a restless child banging on the back of your seat from the back row on an airplane.
In the last five months, here they have had to learn to understand when the sound of artillery can be celebrated. Volleys hit the city, but in their intervals Peski sounded like a hope to end the terror that Donetsk has been subjected to in recent weeks. Reports from the front confirmed these hopes.
From the former forward positions of the Donetsk army, we advance in single file. Who would have imagined that instruction on how to act during a bombing raid would come in handy so quickly. A buzz in the air, a hole somewhere in the woods and I was already seeing two ants under my nose lying on the ground.
"All together, follow me," ordered the commander.
“A strange image for a liberated people”, a skeptic would think. I would reply that it is typical. Every abandoned town, without exception, has been crushed by Ukrainian troops, put to sleep by artillery. It is revenge. Peski is no exception. Before leaving, I observed the work of the drone operations of the 11th regiment of the DPR. It can be seen from the sky that the battle for the city continues. The opponent clings to a small area in the northwest of the city and puts up a focal resistance. They are already isolated from the main forces, but they continue to resist. At best, the remains of the Peski garrison - and this was one of the strongest fortifications in the first line of defense - are doomed to be captured. If it turns out, suddenly, that they did not want to fight, but they were forced.
The day before, he had spoken with prisoners who had surrendered at Peski. All of them are ordinary men from towns like Nikolaev who were recruited.
“What tasks have you been assigned?” I asked Oleg Shinkaev.
“Sit and wait for reinforcements. Endure. He wondered over the radio: will there be reinforcements? They told us yes, that we had to wait.”
“We didn't even know where they had taken us. When we were captured, we realized that we were in Peski”, explained another of the prisoners, Denis Davidov. “We didn't see anything because they brought us at night. We didn't even know how to get back, which way. So, except for the shelter and the nearest trenches, we didn't see anything."
“They told us that we would be in the third line of defense, somewhere in the rear. They dumped us there, they transferred us to the same front, I didn't even know we were in Peski until we met there,” complained Alexander Dmitrik. “You had to help the twenty-third battalion, that's all. How to help, what to do, that was not explained to us. There were no orders, nothing. There were common soldiers as if they were officers”. And so you get up again after the last impact of a shell, you shake your hands and wonder who is really there, if they are all abandoned without commanders.
“There was an enemy fortified area here,” explains the commander of the 11th regiment, after which I run to a battered but still standing shed. “It was their front line where we broke through. Now Peski is difficult to sweep, but he is going to finish, the end is already in sight”.
Somewhere out there numerous explosions are heard: the opponent has launched a cluster projectile. A minute later, the report sounds over the radio: the ammunition was supplemented with petals , which have been scattered all over our path. The soldiers lament, destiny prevents us from advancing further today. But they promise that we will meet again in the center of Peski. Meanwhile, the radio reports another house that has been searched in the northwest part of town.
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Monument to the defenders of Donbass in Nadym
August 13, 10:50
The monument to the defenders of Donbass was installed https://ura.news/news/1052577984 in Nadym.
The monument itself is well done. Installation video https://vk.com/wall-32205256_1645531
Thanks for the tip, comrade amarok_man In Crimea, we are planning to open a memorial plaque and a temple in memory of the dead. There is also talk about the monument, but so far without specifics. I am sure that we will also have a monument.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7798322.html
Ukraine's limited default
August 13, 11:51
Ukraine's limited default
Western rating agencies announced Ukraine's default on its obligations.
The international rating agencies S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings have called default the postponement of payments on Ukraine's debt, downgrading the country's foreign currency ratings. Fitch has downgraded Ukraine's foreign currency issuer rating from C (default imminent) to RD (limited default).
S&P said they view Ukraine's debt restructuring as problematic and tantamount to a default. Ukraine's rating was downgraded by the agency to SD ("selective default").
Expected, but nonetheless. Zelensky brought Ukraine not only to war, but also to default. Although back in the spring they were chanting about Russia's default. In fact, Russia, which already lives in the paradigm of a multipolar world order, simply ignores the "technical defaults that the representatives of the old world order announce to it by blocking the ability to pay off debts in their own currency. Therefore, Russia reasonably considers these statements null and void and offers those who want to get their money, take them in rubles.
Ukraine, on the other hand, continues to live as a country-colony in the old paradigm, and it was she who fell into a full-fledged state of default. But as practice shows, as long as Ukraine is useful as a weapon against Russia, the owners of the old world order will continue to pump money into it to maintain the economy and continue the war. In this connection, the term "limited default" also does not make much sense for Ukraine, since it is already completely dependent on its creditors, and they can ensure debt payments not only financially, but also by other means.
From a factual point of view, the difference between the defaults of Ukraine and Russia is obvious.
Russia has all the resources to service its obligations. Ukraine does not have such resources.
PS. From the standpoint of afterthought, we can safely say that even the times of Yanukovych from an economic point of view were a lost "golden age" for Ukraine. Well, as well as they lived under the Ukrainian USSR, they will not live in Ukraine for a long time.
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UN Launches Nuclear Appeal to Russia and Ukraine
Russia blamed the UN for IAEA experts not being able to make it to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant after the UN accused Moscow of running the NPP for its own benefit. | Photo: @MayadeenEnglish
Published 12 August 2022 (3 hours 11 minutes ago)
Guterres warned that military action near any nuclear power plant may result in a serious disaster affecting a large region. The sentiment is shared by Russia, which on Thursday reiterated its warnings about the situation.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued on Thursday a dire warning over escalation of military actions near Ukraine’s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and called it “unacceptable”. He urged Kiev and Moscow to negotiate a pact to declare the area off-limits for any military action.
“I urge the parties to withdraw any military personnel and equipment from the plant and refrain from any further deployment of forces or equipment to the site,” the senior official insisted. “Instead, urgent agreement is needed at a technical level on a safe perimeter of demilitarization to ensure the safety of the area.”
The Zaporozhye plant, located in the Russia-controlled Ukrainian city of Energodar, has become the stage for a series of attacks over the past few weeks. Moscow accuses Kiev of launching artillery and drone strikes on the facility, branding these moves as “nuclear terrorism.”
Kiev has claimed that Russia was the one targeting the plant in an alleged plot to discredit Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia is using it as a military base, staging troops and heavy weapons there, Ukrainian officials said.
Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN “If the UAF attacks continue The scale of a real nuclear disaster at ZNPP (Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant) is almost unimaginable, in which case all the responsibility rests on Kyiv's Western supporters.”
The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has not had access to the Zaporozhye plant since before Russia attacked Ukraine in late February. The reactors and other equipment are operated by Ukrainian staff, despite being under Russian control since the early weeks of the conflict. Attempts to organize an on-site international inspection to verify the site’s safety and security have been futile so far.
Moscow blamed the UN for the delay and said the organization’s department, which is responsible for security during official visits, was catering to Kiev by allowing it to continue its “provocations.” The Russian Foreign Ministry urged Guterres to intervene.
The secretary-general then called on “the parties to provide the IAEA mission with immediate, secure and unfettered access to the site” in his Thursday statement.
“Actions by the Kiev regime could lead to a disaster on a scale that would dwarf the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,” Russian Foreign Ministry deputy spokesperson Ivan Nechaev said during a news briefing.
The Russian diplomat reiterated calls for an IAEA inspection of the Zaporozhye plant, saying Russia was in favor of one.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/UN- ... -0003.html
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A guaranteed way to denazify Ukraine
No. 4/68, IV.2022
I drew attention to the phrase thrown at the talks in Belarus between Ukraine and Russia by one of the participants from the Ukrainian side:
“Initially, the Russian delegation proceeded from the false premise that we have some kind of glorification of fascism, Nazism, and so on. In our country, as it turned out, and it was surprising for them, there are a number of European laws, which just spell out full-fledged prohibitions and condemnation of all manifestations of Nazism and fascism. It is absurd to present as a claim to the country something that we have already fully regulated at the legislative level in accordance with the European charters.”
What always amused me in the statements of any bourgeois politicians, in particular, and supporters of capitalism among the townsfolk, is the downright reverent attitude towards such an important aspect of any society as legal law.
And if the first category, very possibly, is simply hypocritical, since it knows perfectly well how this mechanism works from the inside, then the inhabitants over and over again show all their stupidity, naivety and idealism, bordering on idiocy, firmly convinced that it is constitutions, laws that determine being around them in the same way that the right thoughts in the head determine the quality of life. This applies both to the regulation of social relations within a capitalist society (for example, raising the retirement age) and to the regulation of relations between states (the so-called international law).
What do Marxists say about this? They say that it is not constitutions or laws that determine social life, but the content of the class struggle and real power in the hands of the ruling class, which, in turn, is only reflected in the rules of law as the protection of the economic interests of the ruling class in the form of laws that are introduced or repealed according to discretion of that class, and not vice versa. On the contrary, it happens only in the heads of idealists who believe that there are only those phenomena in the surrounding reality that are described in these same legal norms.
For example, the United States wanted to bomb Yugoslavia in the 90s, having solved its strategic tasks for dividing the Balkans, spitting from the big bell tower on the lack of permission from the UN Security Council. Has anyone done something to them? No one even squeaked, obediently wiping himself.
In other words, the ruling bourgeois class of the United States did not give a damn about the norms of international law and, by the right of the strongest group of capital on the planet, changed the material reality in the direction they needed, that is, again, materialism defeated idealism.
The ruling classes of European capitalist countries wanted to raise the retirement age for workers, in other words, to reduce, and in the future simply eliminate such a social conquest as the paid age of survival, and they raised it, deeply spitting on the heart-rending cries of the idealists.
Returning to the arguments of the Ukrainian side that fascism cannot exist in Ukraine, since it is prohibited by law, I would like to note the following:
one must distinguish between fascism as an ideology , fascism as a political regime , and fascism as a method of terror.
Fascist ideology as a way of uniting the poor and the rich on the basis of "blood and soil", as well as a method of terror against dissidents within the country or in solving foreign policy problems, the ruling class can also use in the so-called democratic bourgeois society, which we observe daily in almost every country.
Aren't the ruthless napalm bombings of Vietnam or McCarthyism in the United States, which was accompanied by mass repression of "anti-American" citizens with pro-communist views, not a form of terror?
Is it not the modern suppression of dissent in all European bourgeois countries, associated with the cleansing of opinions from the information space that are different from the position of the authorities on the Ukrainian conflict, these are not fascist methods?
It is only necessary to distinguish, as already mentioned above, fascist methods from the fascist political regime , which is already an open form of suppression of any dissent on the part of the ruling bourgeois class, which is no longer limited by any bourgeois democratic laws.
The Ukrainian side says that propaganda of fascism and Nazism is prohibited in their legislation.
And what does it change? Isn't glorification of the Bandera movement officially supported in Ukraine? Isn't hatred for other peoples officially incited in Ukraine? Don't official armed formations of nationalists operate in Ukraine, covered by the state, which are used essentially as flying squads to destroy the disloyal outside the legal field, recognized as Nazi (we are talking about Azov, an organization banned in the Russian Federation) even by the "stronghold of world democracy" - the US Congress ?
And even if the latter did not exist, as there are no such armed formations, for example, in the Baltic states, but where the first two signs perfectly exist (praise of national heroes in the person of the legionnaires of the “ V affen SS”, who fought against Bolshevism, and the artificial incitement of nationalism and national strife - despite the fact that the latter is officially persecuted according to official bourgeois law), then what prevents the ruling class from creating such flying detachments tomorrow?
For example, in the same Baltic States, the propaganda of fascism and communism is officially prohibited and prosecuted by law, but at the same time, in 2012, calendars were openly sold, which depict people in Nazi uniforms with the national flags of Latvia. The captions under the image read: “Defend your homeland. The fight against Bolshevism”, “Cowards whisper. The legionnaire fights”, “Germany protects your homeland and calls you! Your work is also the fight against Bolshevism!”, “You must also fight for Latvia.”
The layman does not understand that under capitalism both liberal-democratic and fascist currents exist and develop simultaneously. These currents not only do not contradict each other, but under certain circumstances fruitfully cooperate with each other. Do we not observe in modern democratic bourgeois countries how democratic freedoms and social guarantees are being destroyed everywhere? Don't we see how, as the economic crisis worsens and social unrest grows, the ruling class of the capitalist countries tightens legislation everywhere, more and more resorting to open forms of terror?
Are you saying that there are only 2-3% of stubborn Nazis in society and you shouldn’t make a tragedy out of this? But 2-3% are stupid fighters, torpedoes painted with a swastika. They will be directed and controlled by decent gentlemen in expensive and beautiful suits with a liberal or social democratic official agenda. And believe me, for you to disappear from this world, these 3% are more than enough. The remaining 97% will simply keep quiet in a rag: some will applaud the national heroes who dealt with the enemies of the Fatherland, while others will shake with fear behind the curtains.
The only guaranteed way to carry out a 100% denazification in Ukraine is the establishment of Soviet power with a complete cleansing of the most frenzied fascists and kicking out the social and economic base on which any fascism grows - market capitalist relations, that is, the elimination of capitalism.
But representatives of the Red Army would answer this if they were negotiating with bourgeois Ukraine. And since the negotiations are conducted by the White Guards, whose leaders are great admirers of the philosopher Ilyin, it is naturally naive to count on this, and therefore it remains only to rely on the "inviolability" of bourgeois law.
I. Ivanov
10/04/2022
https://prorivists.org/68_denazification/
People without a Motherland: eight years of observation of Ukrainians
No. 3/67, III.2022
I started writing this note on the second day of the special operation of the RF Armed Forces, February 25th. Right after I wrote the first. From that moment on, I switched to a remote form of work, and therefore I am deprived of the opportunity to move around the city, as before, which, of course, would add a lot of interesting details to my story. I mostly have to stay at home and watch what is happening using the Internet. And my real view of Kyiv is limited to a few streets on the left bank of the city. In this regard, you can learn much more about the life of Kyiv from Telegram than from me. But I have something that will not be written on social networks - observations of people and how they behave in new conditions. The lack of live contacts right now is fully compensated by the fact that during the eight years of the Kyiv regime in power, I have accumulated enough observations of those around me with whom I had to work and communicate. Therefore, I will try to share my thoughts on
Eight years ago, when the punitive battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the Donbass, the local population had no time for evacuation. I had to go out and stop tanks and armored personnel carriers with my bare hands. Now the war has come to the territory controlled by Kyiv. And where are the fruits of that “patriotism” that the regime has been instilling in Ukrainians for eight years? There was no trace left of him. I would even say that all those who one way or another accepted the position of the Kyiv regime have no homeland. And for a long time. They turned their homeland into a reservation, and elevated subordination to the local regime to the rank of patriotism. But judging by their actions, it is better to love what they call “Fatherland” either from Europe or from the western regions. However the fighting has already reached there.
When the coup took place in February 2014, the Kyiv regime, with the support of the West, managed to successfully make a substitution in the minds of Ukrainians, fully identifying itself with Ukraine. But he never had anything to do with Ukraine, since all these years he worked exclusively in the interests of the United States, England, the European Union, the IMF and all those forces that brought him to power and built “nests” for themselves here in order to use the territory of Ukraine as a springboard for provocations against the Russian Federation. Well, since the political course after 2014 was clearly defined, it was necessary to adjust the self-consciousness of Ukrainians accordingly. Now, instead of the communist heroes who created Ukraine and died for it, fascist collaborators who fought for the establishment of capitalism were imposed on them. That is, nothing new had to be invented. Everything had been ready for a long time. It was necessary to completely destroy the remnants of its socialist heritage in the minds of Ukrainians and completely replace them with content that would correspond to the current political situation in Ukraine - a raw material and military appendage of the West.
To destroy the identity that has been formed over the past hundred years in Ukraine itself, and instead to impose on the Ukrainian people the worldview of aggressive natives fighting with the support of "Western partners" for democracy - such is the goal of indoctrination of the population. The central idea was that the Russian is the eternal enemy of the Ukrainian, which fully meets the interests of Western imperialism. As we can see, no other “culture”, except for servility to the West as the highest manifestation of human civilization, can be expected from these “Ukrainians”. In essence, we are talking about political Ukrainianism. At the same time, it should be noted that, unfortunately, the regime has achieved considerable success over the past eight years in planting its views among a significant part of the local population, who actually betrayed their homeland and turned into slave natives who adopted from the colonialists a culture specially created for them, which had been developing for decades among the nationalist diaspora in the United States and Canada, as well as in Western Ukraine. Now we will have to reap the fruits of these experiments on people.
Therefore, when the Russian Armed Forces began to take control of the eastern regions, the Ukrainians, who for eight years perceived the image of Russia as an enemy, moved together westward in the hope of finding refuge in Europe. But now we are no longer talking about shuttle migration, but about a large-scale exodus of millions of people. And Europe was not ready for this. And this is just the beginning... Throughout all these years, the regime pursued a completely disastrous economic policy, combining it with absolutely fascist methods of working with the population, such as the adoption of a law on indigenous peoples. Nevertheless, the population in its mass continued to tacitly support him. Should we be surprised now? Soon Ukraine will face such dramatic changes that it makes no sense to predict anything yet.
Over the eight years of the existence of the regime, the consciousness of Ukrainians was formed with the help of materials of a very specific content, since all sources of information were blocked, except for local collaborators working for the money of either local oligarchs, or foreign offices such as the Soros Foundation and USAID. Of course, after eight years of such brainwashing, the layman does not understand at all why Russia wants to carry out denazification. After all, for him the Nazis existed and exist only on the pages of history books. And the purpose of the special operation in the form of denazification is simply absurd. Well, since for him there is no difference between Ukraine as a Motherland and the post-Maidan regime, he takes the position of Zelensky and his camarilla. Accordingly, until Kyiv falls, there can be no question of any understanding of what is happening.
In addition, the shock troops of the fascist bandits are composed of young people for whom the last eight years have been a period of adolescence. They were pumped up with propaganda at the tenderest age for the formation of consciousness.
At the same time, it is important to clarify that when they talk about Nazism in Ukraine in the Kremlin and on federal channels, then Nazis mean all those who wear Nazi symbols, engage in Nazi propaganda in social networks, distribute relevant literature, paraphernalia and goods, and commit racially motivated murders. and cultural hatred, is included in the corresponding groups, etc. That is, Nazism is presented as evil, but the ideology of Bandera is presented as the source of this evil. Thus, the reason is not sought in the institution of private property itself, the immanent properties of which give rise to inequality and fascism proper, which, by the way, were pointed out by such anti-fascists of the past as Bertolt Brecht, but in the fact that there is an insufficient fight against extremism.
If we proceed from the above position, then fascism can be fought endlessly. As I already pointed out in a previously published article “ The Left and the special operation of the Russian Federation”, the intellectual qualities of the current holy fools who call themselves anti-fascists cannot be compared with the qualities of anti-fascists and communists of the first half of the 20th century. Simply amazing intellectual poverty… After the end of World War II and the Great Patriotic War, anti-fascism had a much more concrete meaning, while today, after decades of bourgeois academic lies, there is no unified scientific view of fascism at all. Instead, there are many subjective interpretations, the authors of which argue with each other. Based on this, anyone can register themselves as anti-fascists. And I think that it depends only on us how long this situation will continue. And the sooner Marxists can take shape as a real political force after decades of disintegration, the sooner the world will be cured of capitalism, which means
In addition, it should be noted that there are many Nazis in the Russian Federation itself, from where many of them fled to the Ukrainian punitive battalions, fleeing criminal prosecution. And they don't talk about them at all. And if they do, it is extremely rare and few. Although recently one such material was published on RT under the title " The backbone of Azov is right-wing radicals”: how neo-Nazis fled Russia and joined the Ukrainian army". A cursory review of the biography and statements of Hitler's current admirers allows us to conclude quite quickly that we are dealing with mentally ill individuals whose place is in psychiatric clinics. But if they are caught in the Russian Federation, then in Ukraine the local regime rewards them with state awards. For example, the Tornado battalion consisted entirely of those. Where such individuals come from for us, unlike others, is not a secret. The problem is not medical, but social. They are generated by capitalist existence itself. When a maniac simply comes and commits a massacre at school in order to take out his own inferiority complex on others, psychologists and psychiatrists comment on his behavior, but when the same maniac substantiates his murders with political considerations, he is called a Nazi and political scientists comment on his behavior.
As V. Podguzov noted in the article " Market and Fascism ":
“It was the victory of the market economy that was needed, so that in the Baltic countries and in Ukraine, the demonstrations of old and young fascists turned into almost a favorite spectacle of the native population. Now Russian journalists of democratic nationality, who have done everything necessary for the mass revival of the “Holocaust” bearers, i.e. fascists in the Russian Federation, with feigned indignation, conduct lengthy reports from Nazi covens or places of undermining people who tried to remove "posters of anti-Semitic content."
Was it possible to imagine, before the establishment of market relations in the USSR, that columns of national jerks with a swastika on their sleeves were marching on the streets of Moscow? This was absolutely out of the question. Now, the swastika on the sleeves and walls of the market Moscow is as common as the "non-independence" prostitutes on Tverskaya. Today, in all the media of the market-driven Russian Federation, the word “fascists” in the news has become as familiar as the word, for example, “precipitation” in weather forecasts.”
That is, in the field of the Russian media, the objective background of the emergence of fascism is objectively ignored - this is the market and capitalism.
Also earlier as a conclusion I noted:
“Certainly, there are forces in the Russian Federation whose coming to power could be a disaster for Russia. And I mean not only pro-Western fascists under the Navalny brand, there are other half-wits like Malofeev, Dugin and other obscurantists who dream of building some kind of “Russian world” and promoting this ideology. Moreover, both of them can come to power only through a coup, since the popularity among the masses of both is minimal. But no matter what kind of fascists come to power in the Russian Federation - pro-Western in the format of Navalny or local in the Dugin-Malofeevsky format - Russia is in for a catastrophe.”
Bourgeois Russia is not at all immune from the establishment of fascism, with all the ensuing consequences. Because it is impossible to abolish the objective laws of capitalism itself by this or that presidential decree. So far, the possibility of this is stopped only by the current political course. What will happen after - no one knows yet. Therefore, the only way that can guarantee the preservation of Russia is a return to the path of communism, which stops all the ways and "loopholes" for the emergence of fascism by eliminating capitalism itself. But back to Ukraine.
I will cite the statement of the adviser to the head of the Office of the President Mikhail Podolyak from the ArmyINFORM website. Let's see how he responds to the goals of the special operation named by Putin.
“Russian officials really believe that they are at war with the Nazis and nationalist battalions. This is some kind of surreal story that they themselves came up with. This is how Moscow justifies its aggressive terrorist actions in Ukraine, and the leaders of the invaders still do not understand that this is not “for sale” at all. It is not for sale anywhere except Russia itself, which they have disconnected from any information zone from the global information space. They turned themselves off, they drove themselves into the trap of an invented story, they themselves are at war with themselves. That is, they kill our people, but they fight with their fears.”
According to the adviser to the head of the President's Office, "we are fighting with them for the truth", for the fact that the world is completely different, for the fact that "Russian truth" does not exist, for the fact that there are no "Nazis". Apart from the Russian Federation itself, which uses fantastically bad technologies.
“Therefore, Ukraine wins on all fronts. Ukraine is supported by global peace, Ukraine is supported by civilization, and Ukraine is the most mobilized,” said Mykhailo Podolyak.
The Russian army is approaching Kyiv, the largest cities are surrounded by the RF Armed Forces, military infrastructure facilities are being destroyed by Russian "calibers", and the local air defense is destroyed, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are winning on all fronts...
Indeed, well, do not expect that Zelensky, Podolyak, Arestovich and other scumbags like Poroshenko and Turchinov will sit in the dock and admit that they are Nazis. Of course, Podolyak is a politically illiterate idiot who is not the first to “refute” the information that a Nazi regime has been established in Ukraine. But his example is significant. Yes, and his job is such ... to talk about "great victories" on all fronts, while Zelensky once again denounces NATO for not wanting to fulfill its promises.
Therefore, one should not be surprised that ordinary Ukrainians do not understand when they talk about Nazism. They did not notice torchlight processions in Kyiv and other cities for eight years. Just as they don’t notice even now the “dead head” symbolism on the uniform of the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Karbats, who took the population of Kharkov hostage, or on the fighters of Azov who dug in in Mariupol. The whole point is how to build an information policy in the state. When fascism becomes commonplace, the layman cannot recognize it, because the democrats over the years have been able to instill in the layman the idea that fascism and democracy are opposites.
You know, after so many years of almost total loneliness, I sometimes involuntarily catch myself thinking: maybe I'm wrong? Maybe there is no fascism in Ukraine? But if you know what fascism is not from the stories of bourgeois academic demagogues who have been unable to agree with each other for years, but are guided by Marxism, then all these thoughts will blow away like smoke. In such internal dialogues with oneself, one more understanding comes that the layman in the person of the consumer of the media products of the Western imperialist bourgeoisie, who for years turns a blind eye to the genocide of Donbass, is the main support of fascism not only in Ukraine.
The backbone of fascism is not armed militants at all, but such good-natured and friendly citizens who see these militants as their “defenders”. About the breed of such "kind people", or, as they say here, "Svidomo", I already wrote in a post about the author of the so-called " Stalingrad Madonna ”". These “good people” may not notice the bombings of the LDNR for years, but when the war comes to their doorstep, they spew curses at the same people of Donbass, whose suffering has not been noticed for years. No matter how much I spoke with such people, the reaction was always the same - aggressive behavior and screams. Like, LDNR is a sub-republic, something like the Taliban. They mocked and ridiculed Donetsk and Lugansk. At the same time, they were not at all embarrassed that the current regime came to power through a coup d'état with the support of "Western partners" and was being used by them in their own interests. Now the tradesman is horrified by the consequences of his "blindness". He wants punishment for Russia because it did not allow the destruction of the LDNR, not seeing the consequences of its own actions in what is happening. But after all, he, in the same way, for many years did not notice the suffering of the Syrian, Libyan, Afghan and many other peoples, where the US and NATO carried their democracy. The suffering of other peoples from the democratic experiments of the West does not interest them at all. For "good people" these are some savages living far away, because they do not have democracy. They don't want to pray for them. How about not praying? After all, Poroshenko even created a “truly Ukrainian” church, so that one could pray with the help of priests certified by the regime. At the same time, I remember that Arestovich once said that any Afghan collaborator who fled the country after the seizure of power by the Taliban is much more educated than the “average Ukrainian”, since he is much more adapted to life in Western society.
Nevertheless, I also met another position - isolationist, expressed in the desire to isolate oneself from the world and withdraw into one's beloved farm. I have heard, they say, what do I care about Libya? The unwillingness to understand that Ukraine is only part of the global struggle against Western hegemony, and the focus on the fact that Russia is to blame for everything, allow us to abstract from the cause of what is happening wonderfully. But they lead to the same thing - the support of the same collaborators in Belarus and Russia. And they say that there is no fascism in Ukraine... It exists. But not Ukrainian, but American. Local collaborators at one time tried to follow the canons of Germany and Italy, and the current ones rely on the West, which will help them.
Once I wrote a comment under one of the articles on the Breakthrough website, and then one of my comrades even made it a separate post on Vkontakte. Then I tried to briefly describe the portrait of the inhabitant of our days, brought up on the values of the Kyiv regime. I think it is useful to quote this quote now:
“Attempts to appeal to the mind of the philistines who think like the bourgeois, but for the most part will never become one, are useless. Attempts to discuss communism with the townsfolk immediately run into a set of clichés of bourgeois propaganda about China, North Korea, and Cuba. This is especially true of the younger generation, who, having been raised with a consumer psychology, do not want to think about any changes at all. Instagram, a warm bed, a cup of coffee, conveniences at arm's length and mobile services are their values. And the fact that while you are sipping a cappuccino in a warm office, real fascists are walking outside the window is only a reason for jokes. Moreover, it is worth noting that the townsfolk who joke in bewilderment about fascism in Ukraine are themselves the same fascists. But passive. They are nice, nice and polite people, who will transfer the old woman across the road and observe external propriety. But they are horrified by the idea of eliminating the world familiar to them. It is impossible to prove or substantiate anything to them, because, as they say themselves, a theory is a theory, and life is completely different. After all, they themselves know what socialism is and that any attempt to build it will lead straight to the DPRK. They call China and North Korea, even Lukashenka's Belarus "cannibalistic systems", but justify the war against the people of Donbass. About May 2 in the Odessa House of Trade Unions and the bombing of Luhansk, I generally keep quiet. Therefore, I emphasize once again that trying to somehow convince the modern layman, for whom the most important thing is his personal little world, from which he sometimes, snatching something at a sale, experiences ecstasy, is a senseless undertaking.
In fact, it is amazing to watch how the Western bourgeoisie, when working with the local proletariat, was able to achieve such a level of detachment of its consciousness from reality that people, in contact with it, do not understand what is happening. Moreover, when I speak of misunderstanding, I do not mean at all a lack of knowledge of the actors and circumstances of the political process, but a misunderstanding of the objective reasons, the background of everything that we daily observe in the media. That is why I began to write a series of articles "The New Cold War and the Tasks of Communism." The price of ignorance is extremely cruel. And as I said, many will have to pay for it. Some even life. Bourgeois Ukraine, which has existed since 1991, will soon be gone. And what will happen instead of it is still unclear. All this only causes bitterness among the Ukrainians.
The exasperation leads to the fact that both “Svidomites” with experience and those who have just “got clear” after February 24 continue to curse Russia for their problems, but I have repeatedly said and continue to say that what is happening is not the work of Russia and not Putin at all , and a consequence of the coup in February 2014. Well, if you recognized the post-Maidan regime with its European and American patrons, turned a blind eye to the burning of people alive in the Odessa House of Trade Unions, then you simply have no moral right to complain about life. Moreover, those who “got clear” can be not only frankly of Nazi views, but also leftists who criticize the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. Here it is especially clearly observed that the left ones are the same right ones, only in profile. But among the latter, instead of bitterness, there is an impulse of pacifism to end the war and bloodshed. Which can only be interpreted as a defense of the Kyiv regime and its policies. I have long abandoned the division of people according to political views into left and right, but I continue to do this in my texts so that readers better understand what I mean.
This regime, with full approval, and therefore due to the ignorance of millions of Ukrainians, has been consistently destroying the country for eight years and turning them into hostages of international creditors and local oligarchs. Why then should I feel sorry for those who do not want to feel sorry for themselves and want to be a slave of terrorists in the service of international usurers? After all, a slave who defends his slavish slavery is an even more cruel enemy than the slave owner who owns it.
The Western empire calls its power freedom and calls on other peoples to submit to it, bringing up traitors in different countries year after year, which it presents as "heroes" and brings up "patriots" who, with a good combination of circumstances, can be used to seize power. Fighting for such "freedom", the peoples fall into the slavery of American capital, an example of which can be clearly seen in Ukraine. It is precisely such slaves that the local regime grows up, which identify the struggle for slavery with the struggle for freedom. It is these slaves who are ready to destroy their own fellow tribesmen. After all, the Euromaidan, the subsequent coup d'etat and the war against the LDNR - this is one continuous act of betrayal and the transformation of Ukraine into a Western reservation. That is why "good people" do not see the genocide of the people of Donbass, because for them these are not even former fellow citizens, but “cotton wool”, “cattle”, “colorados”, “descendants of convicts”, to whom the corresponding attitude was developed long before 2014. And now, it would seem, after February 24, a real opportunity presented itself to show their "patriotism" - to take up arms and go to defend their "native Ukraine" from the hated "Muscovites" and "cotton wool". But no. Millions moved abroad, to Europe. And it is extremely unlikely that they will return to the country given the current circumstances. I do not rule out that some of them will try to express their anger at the Russians living in Europe. By the way, the latter already receive (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/33173 ) phone threats. And those who remained in Ukraine are screaming that because of Putin, “our children cannot sleep peacefully in cribs.” So what? Should have thought ahead.
By the way, as the same Podolyak writes on Twitter:
“The Russians have turned our children into 'children of war'. Those who sleep in basements, who are constantly under rocket fire, who see how armed invaders rob, shoot, loot. My seven year old son sees the war like in the picture. Now ALL of this is in the memory of our children.”
I, perhaps, will not cease to be amazed by the thinking of these scumbags, who sentimentally whimper about their “little children” and at the same time continue to lie and not notice the conditions in which the children of Donbass had to live. The Russian military and the military of the LDNR do not loot. And in the cities that have been liberated from the power of the Kyiv regime, peace and order are being established, humanitarian aid is being distributed, and humanitarian corridors are being created. Whereas in cities under the rule of the Nazis, the population is robbed and killed without trial or investigation when trying to break through to safe territory. Even now, as the territories of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of the LDNR are being liberated, one can see numerous torture chambers where the Karbats kept their prisoners and treated them worse than animals. In particular, in the village of Polovinkino, Starobelsky district of the LPR, on the territory of a sausage factory,concentration camp of the Aidar battalion, where local residents and militias were kept.
Maybe Podolyak has already forgotten, but I will remind you what the previous leader Poroshenko said about how Kyiv would win the war and how the children of Donbass would sit in basements and not go to school:
“We will have a job – they don’t have it. We will have pensions - they don't have them. We will have the support of people - children and pensioners - they will not have it. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will sit in their basements. Because they can't do anything! That's how, that's how we're going to win this war."
It's funny, but the fascist dump StopFake even released a whole material, dedicated to the refutation of the plot of the Russian Channel One about what Poroshenko said in that very speech during a speech in Odessa. They write that, they say, Poroshenko's words were taken out of context and even paid attention to the incorrect translation into Russian from Ukrainian. But it's not about translation and not about incorrectly cut quotes. The majority of the people of Donbass did not support the coup in Kyiv, which Turchynov, and then Poroshenko himself, intended to impose on him by force, through the so-called "anti-terrorist operation." Whereas in reality the anti-terrorist operation had to be carried out even before the Euromaidan arose, well, or when the fighting took place in the center of Kyiv. Therefore, this “refutation” does not change anything, since in reality we are talking about the rejection by Donbass of proteges of the United States and Europe. But even this obvious fact is ignored by the consciousness of ordinary "patriots". After all, of course, from their point of view, Donbass itself is guilty of its own fate. It's so funny when people who call themselves democrats and support the Kyiv regime, just as they refused to listen to Donbass in the early days of the ATO, refuse to listen now. But now for the years of "deafness" and "blindness" will have to pay well.
After the coup d'état, the people of Kiev led a normal life for eight years, and the war with murders for most of them was somewhere far away. They read about her daily, but did not come face to face. Now, after the Russian troops gradually began to surround the city, they found themselves in a depressed mood. It is one thing to believe in fairy tales about how the Ukrainian army holds back the raids of the “Rusnya”, and it is quite another thing to understand that Russian troops are slowly and unhurriedly pulling equipment to the capital. But just imagine what kind of “phase shift” will happen to those who believe in the victory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine if the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the LDNR really bring the special operation to an end, and scum like Poroshenko, Turchinov, Zelensky, Parubiy and many others go to trial? It will be an extremely entertaining sight. When the special operation is over, there will be a scrapping of the whole picture of the world, over which the local regime has been working for eight years. And that's when the fun begins.
K. Kievsky
27/03/2022
https://prorivists.org/67_ukranalism/
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The battle for Bakhmut: the situation is on
the way out on August 12, 2022
At the beginning of the month, Wagner PMC units managed to break through the defenses on the outskirts of the city and reach the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut (Artemovsk).
The advancing units managed to gain a foothold in the city in the area of Patrice Lulumba Street, however, further advancement is complicated by the defense in depth of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and minefields.
A large number of industrial zones and enterprises are located in Bakhmut , where Ukrainian formations have already placed defense units. In the future, this will prevent the rapid assault of the city as you move deeper into the building.
Artillery of the allied forces regularly strikes at targets identified by means of objective control. The suppression of firing points and artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will reduce losses during the offensive.
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The battle for Marinka: the situation is on
the way out on August 12, 2022
At the end of July, the allied forces launched an offensive against Marinka.
The front line in this suburb of Donetsk has remained virtually unchanged since 2014: for 8 years, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to equip a layered defense with strong points in the area.
The attack on a well-fortified line came as a surprise to the Ukrainian command.
Therefore, already in the first days, the units of the NM DPR managed to seize positions near the ventilation shaft of the Shchurovka mine.
After a week of fighting, by August 8, fighters of the allied forces knocked out the Ukrainian formations from the dominant height on the waste heap of the Shchurovka mine.
For the next few days, fighting continued for farms on the southern outskirts of the settlement, which also came under the control of the NM DPR.
In connection with the breakthrough of the defense and heavy casualties from dense artillery fire, the Ukrainian command was forced to transfer reserves to the front.
At the moment, the front line runs through the center of the village to the east of Druzhby Avenue, where fighting is ongoing.
The local population has actually left Marinka, so the allied forces continue to inflict massive fire damage on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and suitable reserves.
Promotion in the village comes after the suppression of firing points: this affects the pace, but can significantly reduce human losses.
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Original Article: Alexander Kots / Komsomolskaya Pravda
“We are on the road, always on the road, we do not move away, there are petals [antipersonnel mines]. If there is a buzz, we throw ourselves to the right of the road”. It's the last briefingbefore advancing on the town of Peski from the former DPR army forward positions. They have been here for eight years, holding the front line against the Ukrainian Army. The distance between the positions here was sometimes no more than a hundred or a hundred and fifty meters. Provocations, night clashes, positional warfare… for all these years, the Ukrainian Army's artillerymen, also from Peski, have been a nightmare for the residents of Donetsk and nearby cities. Many in Donbass have retaliated, they have stormed Peski with special passion. All of Donetsk has been able to hear it.
I hadn't been here for five months, and in this time, the capital of the DPR has changed so much that it is unrecognizable. The happy and kind city is now deserted, weeds grow between the tiles of Pushkin Boulevard, and, like in a post-apocalyptic movie, two refilled bottles of water are delivered to the hotel reception instead of mineral water. For almost six years, Donetsk has not been a front city, now it is the front. There are interruptions in the supply of water and electricity, daily shelling and the idea of a “safe zone” no longer exists here. The constant sound of cannon fire acts on the nerves like a restless child banging on the back of your seat from the back row on an airplane.
In the last five months, here they have had to learn to understand when the sound of artillery can be celebrated. Volleys hit the city, but in their intervals Peski sounded like a hope to end the terror that Donetsk has been subjected to in recent weeks. Reports from the front confirmed these hopes.
From the former forward positions of the Donetsk army, we advance in single file. Who would have imagined that instruction on how to act during a bombing raid would come in handy so quickly. A buzz in the air, a hole somewhere in the woods and I was already seeing two ants under my nose lying on the ground.
"All together, follow me," ordered the commander.
“A strange image for a liberated people”, a skeptic would think. I would reply that it is typical. Every abandoned town, without exception, has been crushed by Ukrainian troops, put to sleep by artillery. It is revenge. Peski is no exception. Before leaving, I observed the work of the drone operations of the 11th regiment of the DPR. It can be seen from the sky that the battle for the city continues. The opponent clings to a small area in the northwest of the city and puts up a focal resistance. They are already isolated from the main forces, but they continue to resist. At best, the remains of the Peski garrison - and this was one of the strongest fortifications in the first line of defense - are doomed to be captured. If it turns out, suddenly, that they did not want to fight, but they were forced.
The day before, he had spoken with prisoners who had surrendered at Peski. All of them are ordinary men from towns like Nikolaev who were recruited.
“What tasks have you been assigned?” I asked Oleg Shinkaev.
“Sit and wait for reinforcements. Endure. He wondered over the radio: will there be reinforcements? They told us yes, that we had to wait.”
“We didn't even know where they had taken us. When we were captured, we realized that we were in Peski”, explained another of the prisoners, Denis Davidov. “We didn't see anything because they brought us at night. We didn't even know how to get back, which way. So, except for the shelter and the nearest trenches, we didn't see anything."
“They told us that we would be in the third line of defense, somewhere in the rear. They dumped us there, they transferred us to the same front, I didn't even know we were in Peski until we met there,” complained Alexander Dmitrik. “You had to help the twenty-third battalion, that's all. How to help, what to do, that was not explained to us. There were no orders, nothing. There were common soldiers as if they were officers”. And so you get up again after the last impact of a shell, you shake your hands and wonder who is really there, if they are all abandoned without commanders.
“There was an enemy fortified area here,” explains the commander of the 11th regiment, after which I run to a battered but still standing shed. “It was their front line where we broke through. Now Peski is difficult to sweep, but he is going to finish, the end is already in sight”.
Somewhere out there numerous explosions are heard: the opponent has launched a cluster projectile. A minute later, the report sounds over the radio: the ammunition was supplemented with petals , which have been scattered all over our path. The soldiers lament, destiny prevents us from advancing further today. But they promise that we will meet again in the center of Peski. Meanwhile, the radio reports another house that has been searched in the northwest part of town.
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Monument to the defenders of Donbass in Nadym
August 13, 10:50
The monument to the defenders of Donbass was installed https://ura.news/news/1052577984 in Nadym.
The monument itself is well done. Installation video https://vk.com/wall-32205256_1645531
Thanks for the tip, comrade amarok_man In Crimea, we are planning to open a memorial plaque and a temple in memory of the dead. There is also talk about the monument, but so far without specifics. I am sure that we will also have a monument.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7798322.html
Ukraine's limited default
August 13, 11:51
Ukraine's limited default
Western rating agencies announced Ukraine's default on its obligations.
The international rating agencies S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings have called default the postponement of payments on Ukraine's debt, downgrading the country's foreign currency ratings. Fitch has downgraded Ukraine's foreign currency issuer rating from C (default imminent) to RD (limited default).
S&P said they view Ukraine's debt restructuring as problematic and tantamount to a default. Ukraine's rating was downgraded by the agency to SD ("selective default").
Expected, but nonetheless. Zelensky brought Ukraine not only to war, but also to default. Although back in the spring they were chanting about Russia's default. In fact, Russia, which already lives in the paradigm of a multipolar world order, simply ignores the "technical defaults that the representatives of the old world order announce to it by blocking the ability to pay off debts in their own currency. Therefore, Russia reasonably considers these statements null and void and offers those who want to get their money, take them in rubles.
Ukraine, on the other hand, continues to live as a country-colony in the old paradigm, and it was she who fell into a full-fledged state of default. But as practice shows, as long as Ukraine is useful as a weapon against Russia, the owners of the old world order will continue to pump money into it to maintain the economy and continue the war. In this connection, the term "limited default" also does not make much sense for Ukraine, since it is already completely dependent on its creditors, and they can ensure debt payments not only financially, but also by other means.
From a factual point of view, the difference between the defaults of Ukraine and Russia is obvious.
Russia has all the resources to service its obligations. Ukraine does not have such resources.
PS. From the standpoint of afterthought, we can safely say that even the times of Yanukovych from an economic point of view were a lost "golden age" for Ukraine. Well, as well as they lived under the Ukrainian USSR, they will not live in Ukraine for a long time.
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UN Launches Nuclear Appeal to Russia and Ukraine
Russia blamed the UN for IAEA experts not being able to make it to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant after the UN accused Moscow of running the NPP for its own benefit. | Photo: @MayadeenEnglish
Published 12 August 2022 (3 hours 11 minutes ago)
Guterres warned that military action near any nuclear power plant may result in a serious disaster affecting a large region. The sentiment is shared by Russia, which on Thursday reiterated its warnings about the situation.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued on Thursday a dire warning over escalation of military actions near Ukraine’s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and called it “unacceptable”. He urged Kiev and Moscow to negotiate a pact to declare the area off-limits for any military action.
“I urge the parties to withdraw any military personnel and equipment from the plant and refrain from any further deployment of forces or equipment to the site,” the senior official insisted. “Instead, urgent agreement is needed at a technical level on a safe perimeter of demilitarization to ensure the safety of the area.”
The Zaporozhye plant, located in the Russia-controlled Ukrainian city of Energodar, has become the stage for a series of attacks over the past few weeks. Moscow accuses Kiev of launching artillery and drone strikes on the facility, branding these moves as “nuclear terrorism.”
Kiev has claimed that Russia was the one targeting the plant in an alleged plot to discredit Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia is using it as a military base, staging troops and heavy weapons there, Ukrainian officials said.
Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN “If the UAF attacks continue The scale of a real nuclear disaster at ZNPP (Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant) is almost unimaginable, in which case all the responsibility rests on Kyiv's Western supporters.”
The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has not had access to the Zaporozhye plant since before Russia attacked Ukraine in late February. The reactors and other equipment are operated by Ukrainian staff, despite being under Russian control since the early weeks of the conflict. Attempts to organize an on-site international inspection to verify the site’s safety and security have been futile so far.
Moscow blamed the UN for the delay and said the organization’s department, which is responsible for security during official visits, was catering to Kiev by allowing it to continue its “provocations.” The Russian Foreign Ministry urged Guterres to intervene.
The secretary-general then called on “the parties to provide the IAEA mission with immediate, secure and unfettered access to the site” in his Thursday statement.
“Actions by the Kiev regime could lead to a disaster on a scale that would dwarf the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,” Russian Foreign Ministry deputy spokesperson Ivan Nechaev said during a news briefing.
The Russian diplomat reiterated calls for an IAEA inspection of the Zaporozhye plant, saying Russia was in favor of one.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/UN- ... -0003.html
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A guaranteed way to denazify Ukraine
No. 4/68, IV.2022
I drew attention to the phrase thrown at the talks in Belarus between Ukraine and Russia by one of the participants from the Ukrainian side:
“Initially, the Russian delegation proceeded from the false premise that we have some kind of glorification of fascism, Nazism, and so on. In our country, as it turned out, and it was surprising for them, there are a number of European laws, which just spell out full-fledged prohibitions and condemnation of all manifestations of Nazism and fascism. It is absurd to present as a claim to the country something that we have already fully regulated at the legislative level in accordance with the European charters.”
What always amused me in the statements of any bourgeois politicians, in particular, and supporters of capitalism among the townsfolk, is the downright reverent attitude towards such an important aspect of any society as legal law.
And if the first category, very possibly, is simply hypocritical, since it knows perfectly well how this mechanism works from the inside, then the inhabitants over and over again show all their stupidity, naivety and idealism, bordering on idiocy, firmly convinced that it is constitutions, laws that determine being around them in the same way that the right thoughts in the head determine the quality of life. This applies both to the regulation of social relations within a capitalist society (for example, raising the retirement age) and to the regulation of relations between states (the so-called international law).
What do Marxists say about this? They say that it is not constitutions or laws that determine social life, but the content of the class struggle and real power in the hands of the ruling class, which, in turn, is only reflected in the rules of law as the protection of the economic interests of the ruling class in the form of laws that are introduced or repealed according to discretion of that class, and not vice versa. On the contrary, it happens only in the heads of idealists who believe that there are only those phenomena in the surrounding reality that are described in these same legal norms.
For example, the United States wanted to bomb Yugoslavia in the 90s, having solved its strategic tasks for dividing the Balkans, spitting from the big bell tower on the lack of permission from the UN Security Council. Has anyone done something to them? No one even squeaked, obediently wiping himself.
In other words, the ruling bourgeois class of the United States did not give a damn about the norms of international law and, by the right of the strongest group of capital on the planet, changed the material reality in the direction they needed, that is, again, materialism defeated idealism.
The ruling classes of European capitalist countries wanted to raise the retirement age for workers, in other words, to reduce, and in the future simply eliminate such a social conquest as the paid age of survival, and they raised it, deeply spitting on the heart-rending cries of the idealists.
Returning to the arguments of the Ukrainian side that fascism cannot exist in Ukraine, since it is prohibited by law, I would like to note the following:
one must distinguish between fascism as an ideology , fascism as a political regime , and fascism as a method of terror.
Fascist ideology as a way of uniting the poor and the rich on the basis of "blood and soil", as well as a method of terror against dissidents within the country or in solving foreign policy problems, the ruling class can also use in the so-called democratic bourgeois society, which we observe daily in almost every country.
Aren't the ruthless napalm bombings of Vietnam or McCarthyism in the United States, which was accompanied by mass repression of "anti-American" citizens with pro-communist views, not a form of terror?
Is it not the modern suppression of dissent in all European bourgeois countries, associated with the cleansing of opinions from the information space that are different from the position of the authorities on the Ukrainian conflict, these are not fascist methods?
It is only necessary to distinguish, as already mentioned above, fascist methods from the fascist political regime , which is already an open form of suppression of any dissent on the part of the ruling bourgeois class, which is no longer limited by any bourgeois democratic laws.
The Ukrainian side says that propaganda of fascism and Nazism is prohibited in their legislation.
And what does it change? Isn't glorification of the Bandera movement officially supported in Ukraine? Isn't hatred for other peoples officially incited in Ukraine? Don't official armed formations of nationalists operate in Ukraine, covered by the state, which are used essentially as flying squads to destroy the disloyal outside the legal field, recognized as Nazi (we are talking about Azov, an organization banned in the Russian Federation) even by the "stronghold of world democracy" - the US Congress ?
And even if the latter did not exist, as there are no such armed formations, for example, in the Baltic states, but where the first two signs perfectly exist (praise of national heroes in the person of the legionnaires of the “ V affen SS”, who fought against Bolshevism, and the artificial incitement of nationalism and national strife - despite the fact that the latter is officially persecuted according to official bourgeois law), then what prevents the ruling class from creating such flying detachments tomorrow?
For example, in the same Baltic States, the propaganda of fascism and communism is officially prohibited and prosecuted by law, but at the same time, in 2012, calendars were openly sold, which depict people in Nazi uniforms with the national flags of Latvia. The captions under the image read: “Defend your homeland. The fight against Bolshevism”, “Cowards whisper. The legionnaire fights”, “Germany protects your homeland and calls you! Your work is also the fight against Bolshevism!”, “You must also fight for Latvia.”
The layman does not understand that under capitalism both liberal-democratic and fascist currents exist and develop simultaneously. These currents not only do not contradict each other, but under certain circumstances fruitfully cooperate with each other. Do we not observe in modern democratic bourgeois countries how democratic freedoms and social guarantees are being destroyed everywhere? Don't we see how, as the economic crisis worsens and social unrest grows, the ruling class of the capitalist countries tightens legislation everywhere, more and more resorting to open forms of terror?
Are you saying that there are only 2-3% of stubborn Nazis in society and you shouldn’t make a tragedy out of this? But 2-3% are stupid fighters, torpedoes painted with a swastika. They will be directed and controlled by decent gentlemen in expensive and beautiful suits with a liberal or social democratic official agenda. And believe me, for you to disappear from this world, these 3% are more than enough. The remaining 97% will simply keep quiet in a rag: some will applaud the national heroes who dealt with the enemies of the Fatherland, while others will shake with fear behind the curtains.
The only guaranteed way to carry out a 100% denazification in Ukraine is the establishment of Soviet power with a complete cleansing of the most frenzied fascists and kicking out the social and economic base on which any fascism grows - market capitalist relations, that is, the elimination of capitalism.
But representatives of the Red Army would answer this if they were negotiating with bourgeois Ukraine. And since the negotiations are conducted by the White Guards, whose leaders are great admirers of the philosopher Ilyin, it is naturally naive to count on this, and therefore it remains only to rely on the "inviolability" of bourgeois law.
I. Ivanov
10/04/2022
https://prorivists.org/68_denazification/
People without a Motherland: eight years of observation of Ukrainians
No. 3/67, III.2022
I started writing this note on the second day of the special operation of the RF Armed Forces, February 25th. Right after I wrote the first. From that moment on, I switched to a remote form of work, and therefore I am deprived of the opportunity to move around the city, as before, which, of course, would add a lot of interesting details to my story. I mostly have to stay at home and watch what is happening using the Internet. And my real view of Kyiv is limited to a few streets on the left bank of the city. In this regard, you can learn much more about the life of Kyiv from Telegram than from me. But I have something that will not be written on social networks - observations of people and how they behave in new conditions. The lack of live contacts right now is fully compensated by the fact that during the eight years of the Kyiv regime in power, I have accumulated enough observations of those around me with whom I had to work and communicate. Therefore, I will try to share my thoughts on
Eight years ago, when the punitive battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the Donbass, the local population had no time for evacuation. I had to go out and stop tanks and armored personnel carriers with my bare hands. Now the war has come to the territory controlled by Kyiv. And where are the fruits of that “patriotism” that the regime has been instilling in Ukrainians for eight years? There was no trace left of him. I would even say that all those who one way or another accepted the position of the Kyiv regime have no homeland. And for a long time. They turned their homeland into a reservation, and elevated subordination to the local regime to the rank of patriotism. But judging by their actions, it is better to love what they call “Fatherland” either from Europe or from the western regions. However the fighting has already reached there.
When the coup took place in February 2014, the Kyiv regime, with the support of the West, managed to successfully make a substitution in the minds of Ukrainians, fully identifying itself with Ukraine. But he never had anything to do with Ukraine, since all these years he worked exclusively in the interests of the United States, England, the European Union, the IMF and all those forces that brought him to power and built “nests” for themselves here in order to use the territory of Ukraine as a springboard for provocations against the Russian Federation. Well, since the political course after 2014 was clearly defined, it was necessary to adjust the self-consciousness of Ukrainians accordingly. Now, instead of the communist heroes who created Ukraine and died for it, fascist collaborators who fought for the establishment of capitalism were imposed on them. That is, nothing new had to be invented. Everything had been ready for a long time. It was necessary to completely destroy the remnants of its socialist heritage in the minds of Ukrainians and completely replace them with content that would correspond to the current political situation in Ukraine - a raw material and military appendage of the West.
To destroy the identity that has been formed over the past hundred years in Ukraine itself, and instead to impose on the Ukrainian people the worldview of aggressive natives fighting with the support of "Western partners" for democracy - such is the goal of indoctrination of the population. The central idea was that the Russian is the eternal enemy of the Ukrainian, which fully meets the interests of Western imperialism. As we can see, no other “culture”, except for servility to the West as the highest manifestation of human civilization, can be expected from these “Ukrainians”. In essence, we are talking about political Ukrainianism. At the same time, it should be noted that, unfortunately, the regime has achieved considerable success over the past eight years in planting its views among a significant part of the local population, who actually betrayed their homeland and turned into slave natives who adopted from the colonialists a culture specially created for them, which had been developing for decades among the nationalist diaspora in the United States and Canada, as well as in Western Ukraine. Now we will have to reap the fruits of these experiments on people.
Therefore, when the Russian Armed Forces began to take control of the eastern regions, the Ukrainians, who for eight years perceived the image of Russia as an enemy, moved together westward in the hope of finding refuge in Europe. But now we are no longer talking about shuttle migration, but about a large-scale exodus of millions of people. And Europe was not ready for this. And this is just the beginning... Throughout all these years, the regime pursued a completely disastrous economic policy, combining it with absolutely fascist methods of working with the population, such as the adoption of a law on indigenous peoples. Nevertheless, the population in its mass continued to tacitly support him. Should we be surprised now? Soon Ukraine will face such dramatic changes that it makes no sense to predict anything yet.
Over the eight years of the existence of the regime, the consciousness of Ukrainians was formed with the help of materials of a very specific content, since all sources of information were blocked, except for local collaborators working for the money of either local oligarchs, or foreign offices such as the Soros Foundation and USAID. Of course, after eight years of such brainwashing, the layman does not understand at all why Russia wants to carry out denazification. After all, for him the Nazis existed and exist only on the pages of history books. And the purpose of the special operation in the form of denazification is simply absurd. Well, since for him there is no difference between Ukraine as a Motherland and the post-Maidan regime, he takes the position of Zelensky and his camarilla. Accordingly, until Kyiv falls, there can be no question of any understanding of what is happening.
In addition, the shock troops of the fascist bandits are composed of young people for whom the last eight years have been a period of adolescence. They were pumped up with propaganda at the tenderest age for the formation of consciousness.
At the same time, it is important to clarify that when they talk about Nazism in Ukraine in the Kremlin and on federal channels, then Nazis mean all those who wear Nazi symbols, engage in Nazi propaganda in social networks, distribute relevant literature, paraphernalia and goods, and commit racially motivated murders. and cultural hatred, is included in the corresponding groups, etc. That is, Nazism is presented as evil, but the ideology of Bandera is presented as the source of this evil. Thus, the reason is not sought in the institution of private property itself, the immanent properties of which give rise to inequality and fascism proper, which, by the way, were pointed out by such anti-fascists of the past as Bertolt Brecht, but in the fact that there is an insufficient fight against extremism.
If we proceed from the above position, then fascism can be fought endlessly. As I already pointed out in a previously published article “ The Left and the special operation of the Russian Federation”, the intellectual qualities of the current holy fools who call themselves anti-fascists cannot be compared with the qualities of anti-fascists and communists of the first half of the 20th century. Simply amazing intellectual poverty… After the end of World War II and the Great Patriotic War, anti-fascism had a much more concrete meaning, while today, after decades of bourgeois academic lies, there is no unified scientific view of fascism at all. Instead, there are many subjective interpretations, the authors of which argue with each other. Based on this, anyone can register themselves as anti-fascists. And I think that it depends only on us how long this situation will continue. And the sooner Marxists can take shape as a real political force after decades of disintegration, the sooner the world will be cured of capitalism, which means
In addition, it should be noted that there are many Nazis in the Russian Federation itself, from where many of them fled to the Ukrainian punitive battalions, fleeing criminal prosecution. And they don't talk about them at all. And if they do, it is extremely rare and few. Although recently one such material was published on RT under the title " The backbone of Azov is right-wing radicals”: how neo-Nazis fled Russia and joined the Ukrainian army". A cursory review of the biography and statements of Hitler's current admirers allows us to conclude quite quickly that we are dealing with mentally ill individuals whose place is in psychiatric clinics. But if they are caught in the Russian Federation, then in Ukraine the local regime rewards them with state awards. For example, the Tornado battalion consisted entirely of those. Where such individuals come from for us, unlike others, is not a secret. The problem is not medical, but social. They are generated by capitalist existence itself. When a maniac simply comes and commits a massacre at school in order to take out his own inferiority complex on others, psychologists and psychiatrists comment on his behavior, but when the same maniac substantiates his murders with political considerations, he is called a Nazi and political scientists comment on his behavior.
As V. Podguzov noted in the article " Market and Fascism ":
“It was the victory of the market economy that was needed, so that in the Baltic countries and in Ukraine, the demonstrations of old and young fascists turned into almost a favorite spectacle of the native population. Now Russian journalists of democratic nationality, who have done everything necessary for the mass revival of the “Holocaust” bearers, i.e. fascists in the Russian Federation, with feigned indignation, conduct lengthy reports from Nazi covens or places of undermining people who tried to remove "posters of anti-Semitic content."
Was it possible to imagine, before the establishment of market relations in the USSR, that columns of national jerks with a swastika on their sleeves were marching on the streets of Moscow? This was absolutely out of the question. Now, the swastika on the sleeves and walls of the market Moscow is as common as the "non-independence" prostitutes on Tverskaya. Today, in all the media of the market-driven Russian Federation, the word “fascists” in the news has become as familiar as the word, for example, “precipitation” in weather forecasts.”
That is, in the field of the Russian media, the objective background of the emergence of fascism is objectively ignored - this is the market and capitalism.
Also earlier as a conclusion I noted:
“Certainly, there are forces in the Russian Federation whose coming to power could be a disaster for Russia. And I mean not only pro-Western fascists under the Navalny brand, there are other half-wits like Malofeev, Dugin and other obscurantists who dream of building some kind of “Russian world” and promoting this ideology. Moreover, both of them can come to power only through a coup, since the popularity among the masses of both is minimal. But no matter what kind of fascists come to power in the Russian Federation - pro-Western in the format of Navalny or local in the Dugin-Malofeevsky format - Russia is in for a catastrophe.”
Bourgeois Russia is not at all immune from the establishment of fascism, with all the ensuing consequences. Because it is impossible to abolish the objective laws of capitalism itself by this or that presidential decree. So far, the possibility of this is stopped only by the current political course. What will happen after - no one knows yet. Therefore, the only way that can guarantee the preservation of Russia is a return to the path of communism, which stops all the ways and "loopholes" for the emergence of fascism by eliminating capitalism itself. But back to Ukraine.
I will cite the statement of the adviser to the head of the Office of the President Mikhail Podolyak from the ArmyINFORM website. Let's see how he responds to the goals of the special operation named by Putin.
“Russian officials really believe that they are at war with the Nazis and nationalist battalions. This is some kind of surreal story that they themselves came up with. This is how Moscow justifies its aggressive terrorist actions in Ukraine, and the leaders of the invaders still do not understand that this is not “for sale” at all. It is not for sale anywhere except Russia itself, which they have disconnected from any information zone from the global information space. They turned themselves off, they drove themselves into the trap of an invented story, they themselves are at war with themselves. That is, they kill our people, but they fight with their fears.”
According to the adviser to the head of the President's Office, "we are fighting with them for the truth", for the fact that the world is completely different, for the fact that "Russian truth" does not exist, for the fact that there are no "Nazis". Apart from the Russian Federation itself, which uses fantastically bad technologies.
“Therefore, Ukraine wins on all fronts. Ukraine is supported by global peace, Ukraine is supported by civilization, and Ukraine is the most mobilized,” said Mykhailo Podolyak.
The Russian army is approaching Kyiv, the largest cities are surrounded by the RF Armed Forces, military infrastructure facilities are being destroyed by Russian "calibers", and the local air defense is destroyed, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are winning on all fronts...
Indeed, well, do not expect that Zelensky, Podolyak, Arestovich and other scumbags like Poroshenko and Turchinov will sit in the dock and admit that they are Nazis. Of course, Podolyak is a politically illiterate idiot who is not the first to “refute” the information that a Nazi regime has been established in Ukraine. But his example is significant. Yes, and his job is such ... to talk about "great victories" on all fronts, while Zelensky once again denounces NATO for not wanting to fulfill its promises.
Therefore, one should not be surprised that ordinary Ukrainians do not understand when they talk about Nazism. They did not notice torchlight processions in Kyiv and other cities for eight years. Just as they don’t notice even now the “dead head” symbolism on the uniform of the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Karbats, who took the population of Kharkov hostage, or on the fighters of Azov who dug in in Mariupol. The whole point is how to build an information policy in the state. When fascism becomes commonplace, the layman cannot recognize it, because the democrats over the years have been able to instill in the layman the idea that fascism and democracy are opposites.
You know, after so many years of almost total loneliness, I sometimes involuntarily catch myself thinking: maybe I'm wrong? Maybe there is no fascism in Ukraine? But if you know what fascism is not from the stories of bourgeois academic demagogues who have been unable to agree with each other for years, but are guided by Marxism, then all these thoughts will blow away like smoke. In such internal dialogues with oneself, one more understanding comes that the layman in the person of the consumer of the media products of the Western imperialist bourgeoisie, who for years turns a blind eye to the genocide of Donbass, is the main support of fascism not only in Ukraine.
The backbone of fascism is not armed militants at all, but such good-natured and friendly citizens who see these militants as their “defenders”. About the breed of such "kind people", or, as they say here, "Svidomo", I already wrote in a post about the author of the so-called " Stalingrad Madonna ”". These “good people” may not notice the bombings of the LDNR for years, but when the war comes to their doorstep, they spew curses at the same people of Donbass, whose suffering has not been noticed for years. No matter how much I spoke with such people, the reaction was always the same - aggressive behavior and screams. Like, LDNR is a sub-republic, something like the Taliban. They mocked and ridiculed Donetsk and Lugansk. At the same time, they were not at all embarrassed that the current regime came to power through a coup d'état with the support of "Western partners" and was being used by them in their own interests. Now the tradesman is horrified by the consequences of his "blindness". He wants punishment for Russia because it did not allow the destruction of the LDNR, not seeing the consequences of its own actions in what is happening. But after all, he, in the same way, for many years did not notice the suffering of the Syrian, Libyan, Afghan and many other peoples, where the US and NATO carried their democracy. The suffering of other peoples from the democratic experiments of the West does not interest them at all. For "good people" these are some savages living far away, because they do not have democracy. They don't want to pray for them. How about not praying? After all, Poroshenko even created a “truly Ukrainian” church, so that one could pray with the help of priests certified by the regime. At the same time, I remember that Arestovich once said that any Afghan collaborator who fled the country after the seizure of power by the Taliban is much more educated than the “average Ukrainian”, since he is much more adapted to life in Western society.
Nevertheless, I also met another position - isolationist, expressed in the desire to isolate oneself from the world and withdraw into one's beloved farm. I have heard, they say, what do I care about Libya? The unwillingness to understand that Ukraine is only part of the global struggle against Western hegemony, and the focus on the fact that Russia is to blame for everything, allow us to abstract from the cause of what is happening wonderfully. But they lead to the same thing - the support of the same collaborators in Belarus and Russia. And they say that there is no fascism in Ukraine... It exists. But not Ukrainian, but American. Local collaborators at one time tried to follow the canons of Germany and Italy, and the current ones rely on the West, which will help them.
Once I wrote a comment under one of the articles on the Breakthrough website, and then one of my comrades even made it a separate post on Vkontakte. Then I tried to briefly describe the portrait of the inhabitant of our days, brought up on the values of the Kyiv regime. I think it is useful to quote this quote now:
“Attempts to appeal to the mind of the philistines who think like the bourgeois, but for the most part will never become one, are useless. Attempts to discuss communism with the townsfolk immediately run into a set of clichés of bourgeois propaganda about China, North Korea, and Cuba. This is especially true of the younger generation, who, having been raised with a consumer psychology, do not want to think about any changes at all. Instagram, a warm bed, a cup of coffee, conveniences at arm's length and mobile services are their values. And the fact that while you are sipping a cappuccino in a warm office, real fascists are walking outside the window is only a reason for jokes. Moreover, it is worth noting that the townsfolk who joke in bewilderment about fascism in Ukraine are themselves the same fascists. But passive. They are nice, nice and polite people, who will transfer the old woman across the road and observe external propriety. But they are horrified by the idea of eliminating the world familiar to them. It is impossible to prove or substantiate anything to them, because, as they say themselves, a theory is a theory, and life is completely different. After all, they themselves know what socialism is and that any attempt to build it will lead straight to the DPRK. They call China and North Korea, even Lukashenka's Belarus "cannibalistic systems", but justify the war against the people of Donbass. About May 2 in the Odessa House of Trade Unions and the bombing of Luhansk, I generally keep quiet. Therefore, I emphasize once again that trying to somehow convince the modern layman, for whom the most important thing is his personal little world, from which he sometimes, snatching something at a sale, experiences ecstasy, is a senseless undertaking.
In fact, it is amazing to watch how the Western bourgeoisie, when working with the local proletariat, was able to achieve such a level of detachment of its consciousness from reality that people, in contact with it, do not understand what is happening. Moreover, when I speak of misunderstanding, I do not mean at all a lack of knowledge of the actors and circumstances of the political process, but a misunderstanding of the objective reasons, the background of everything that we daily observe in the media. That is why I began to write a series of articles "The New Cold War and the Tasks of Communism." The price of ignorance is extremely cruel. And as I said, many will have to pay for it. Some even life. Bourgeois Ukraine, which has existed since 1991, will soon be gone. And what will happen instead of it is still unclear. All this only causes bitterness among the Ukrainians.
The exasperation leads to the fact that both “Svidomites” with experience and those who have just “got clear” after February 24 continue to curse Russia for their problems, but I have repeatedly said and continue to say that what is happening is not the work of Russia and not Putin at all , and a consequence of the coup in February 2014. Well, if you recognized the post-Maidan regime with its European and American patrons, turned a blind eye to the burning of people alive in the Odessa House of Trade Unions, then you simply have no moral right to complain about life. Moreover, those who “got clear” can be not only frankly of Nazi views, but also leftists who criticize the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. Here it is especially clearly observed that the left ones are the same right ones, only in profile. But among the latter, instead of bitterness, there is an impulse of pacifism to end the war and bloodshed. Which can only be interpreted as a defense of the Kyiv regime and its policies. I have long abandoned the division of people according to political views into left and right, but I continue to do this in my texts so that readers better understand what I mean.
This regime, with full approval, and therefore due to the ignorance of millions of Ukrainians, has been consistently destroying the country for eight years and turning them into hostages of international creditors and local oligarchs. Why then should I feel sorry for those who do not want to feel sorry for themselves and want to be a slave of terrorists in the service of international usurers? After all, a slave who defends his slavish slavery is an even more cruel enemy than the slave owner who owns it.
The Western empire calls its power freedom and calls on other peoples to submit to it, bringing up traitors in different countries year after year, which it presents as "heroes" and brings up "patriots" who, with a good combination of circumstances, can be used to seize power. Fighting for such "freedom", the peoples fall into the slavery of American capital, an example of which can be clearly seen in Ukraine. It is precisely such slaves that the local regime grows up, which identify the struggle for slavery with the struggle for freedom. It is these slaves who are ready to destroy their own fellow tribesmen. After all, the Euromaidan, the subsequent coup d'etat and the war against the LDNR - this is one continuous act of betrayal and the transformation of Ukraine into a Western reservation. That is why "good people" do not see the genocide of the people of Donbass, because for them these are not even former fellow citizens, but “cotton wool”, “cattle”, “colorados”, “descendants of convicts”, to whom the corresponding attitude was developed long before 2014. And now, it would seem, after February 24, a real opportunity presented itself to show their "patriotism" - to take up arms and go to defend their "native Ukraine" from the hated "Muscovites" and "cotton wool". But no. Millions moved abroad, to Europe. And it is extremely unlikely that they will return to the country given the current circumstances. I do not rule out that some of them will try to express their anger at the Russians living in Europe. By the way, the latter already receive (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/33173 ) phone threats. And those who remained in Ukraine are screaming that because of Putin, “our children cannot sleep peacefully in cribs.” So what? Should have thought ahead.
By the way, as the same Podolyak writes on Twitter:
“The Russians have turned our children into 'children of war'. Those who sleep in basements, who are constantly under rocket fire, who see how armed invaders rob, shoot, loot. My seven year old son sees the war like in the picture. Now ALL of this is in the memory of our children.”
I, perhaps, will not cease to be amazed by the thinking of these scumbags, who sentimentally whimper about their “little children” and at the same time continue to lie and not notice the conditions in which the children of Donbass had to live. The Russian military and the military of the LDNR do not loot. And in the cities that have been liberated from the power of the Kyiv regime, peace and order are being established, humanitarian aid is being distributed, and humanitarian corridors are being created. Whereas in cities under the rule of the Nazis, the population is robbed and killed without trial or investigation when trying to break through to safe territory. Even now, as the territories of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of the LDNR are being liberated, one can see numerous torture chambers where the Karbats kept their prisoners and treated them worse than animals. In particular, in the village of Polovinkino, Starobelsky district of the LPR, on the territory of a sausage factory,concentration camp of the Aidar battalion, where local residents and militias were kept.
Maybe Podolyak has already forgotten, but I will remind you what the previous leader Poroshenko said about how Kyiv would win the war and how the children of Donbass would sit in basements and not go to school:
“We will have a job – they don’t have it. We will have pensions - they don't have them. We will have the support of people - children and pensioners - they will not have it. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will sit in their basements. Because they can't do anything! That's how, that's how we're going to win this war."
It's funny, but the fascist dump StopFake even released a whole material, dedicated to the refutation of the plot of the Russian Channel One about what Poroshenko said in that very speech during a speech in Odessa. They write that, they say, Poroshenko's words were taken out of context and even paid attention to the incorrect translation into Russian from Ukrainian. But it's not about translation and not about incorrectly cut quotes. The majority of the people of Donbass did not support the coup in Kyiv, which Turchynov, and then Poroshenko himself, intended to impose on him by force, through the so-called "anti-terrorist operation." Whereas in reality the anti-terrorist operation had to be carried out even before the Euromaidan arose, well, or when the fighting took place in the center of Kyiv. Therefore, this “refutation” does not change anything, since in reality we are talking about the rejection by Donbass of proteges of the United States and Europe. But even this obvious fact is ignored by the consciousness of ordinary "patriots". After all, of course, from their point of view, Donbass itself is guilty of its own fate. It's so funny when people who call themselves democrats and support the Kyiv regime, just as they refused to listen to Donbass in the early days of the ATO, refuse to listen now. But now for the years of "deafness" and "blindness" will have to pay well.
After the coup d'état, the people of Kiev led a normal life for eight years, and the war with murders for most of them was somewhere far away. They read about her daily, but did not come face to face. Now, after the Russian troops gradually began to surround the city, they found themselves in a depressed mood. It is one thing to believe in fairy tales about how the Ukrainian army holds back the raids of the “Rusnya”, and it is quite another thing to understand that Russian troops are slowly and unhurriedly pulling equipment to the capital. But just imagine what kind of “phase shift” will happen to those who believe in the victory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine if the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the LDNR really bring the special operation to an end, and scum like Poroshenko, Turchinov, Zelensky, Parubiy and many others go to trial? It will be an extremely entertaining sight. When the special operation is over, there will be a scrapping of the whole picture of the world, over which the local regime has been working for eight years. And that's when the fun begins.
K. Kievsky
27/03/2022
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The battle for Bakhmut: the situation is on
the way out on August 12, 2022
At the beginning of the month, Wagner PMC units managed to break through the defenses on the outskirts of the city and reach the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut (Artemovsk).
The advancing units managed to gain a foothold in the city in the area of Patrice Lulumba Street, however, further advancement is complicated by the defense in depth of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and minefields.
A large number of industrial zones and enterprises are located in Bakhmut , where Ukrainian formations have already placed defense units. In the future, this will prevent the rapid assault of the city as you move deeper into the building.
Artillery of the allied forces regularly strikes at targets identified by means of objective control. The suppression of firing points and artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will reduce losses during the offensive.
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The battle for Marinka: the situation is on
the way out on August 12, 2022
At the end of July, the allied forces launched an offensive against Marinka.
The front line in this suburb of Donetsk has remained virtually unchanged since 2014: for 8 years, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to equip a layered defense with strong points in the area.
The attack on a well-fortified line came as a surprise to the Ukrainian command.
Therefore, already in the first days, the units of the NM DPR managed to seize positions near the ventilation shaft of the Shchurovka mine.
After a week of fighting, by August 8, fighters of the allied forces knocked out the Ukrainian formations from the dominant height on the waste heap of the Shchurovka mine.
For the next few days, fighting continued for farms on the southern outskirts of the settlement, which also came under the control of the NM DPR.
In connection with the breakthrough of the defense and heavy casualties from dense artillery fire, the Ukrainian command was forced to transfer reserves to the front.
At the moment, the front line runs through the center of the village to the east of Druzhby Avenue, where fighting is ongoing.
The local population has actually left Marinka, so the allied forces continue to inflict massive fire damage on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and suitable reserves.
Promotion in the village comes after the suppression of firing points: this affects the pace, but can significantly reduce human losses.
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