- cross-posted to:
- ukraine_war_news
- cross-posted to:
- ukraine_war_news
Includes fan favorites like:
- showing anarchists blabbering on about their fear about political oppression under a supposed Russian occupation while in reality every left-wing party in Ukraine has been outlawed a couple weeks ago and the SBU has arrested and locked up prominent communist activists after the start of the war
- trivializing the very real nazi problem in Ukraine when literal fascist militias like Azov are not just some randos fighting in this war but officially part of the Ukrainian defense forces and Ukrainian fascists have high political positions with them being a driving force in the civil war waged against the people in the Donbas
- the lame “but Zelenskyy is a jew”-argument when antisemitism and hatecrimes against other minorities like Roma and LGBT-people have been on a steady rise since 2014
- suggesting that the Russians are in a war frenzy showing some TV clips as proof while completely ignoring the huge anti-war protests in Russia and the real political oppression of anti-war-activists in Russia
This video offers zero critical investigation and just regurgitates the usual Ukrainian handwaving and anti-Russian propaganda with some nice emotional manipulation to really tug at the heartstrings.
Yeah I kinda glossed over some details in my initial post, only concentrating on the elements not commonly reported in the western mainstream. The situation of the political left in Ukraine since the maidan coup has been dire, to say the least.
I won’t knock the actual mutual aid stuff these supposed anarchists are doing but they seem fishy to me as well. I mean their takes in the interviews are just incredibly bad. I was intent on ignoring this video but the “political repression under Russian occupation” bit from that first anarkiddie actually made me angry lol