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    2 years ago

    But they still had two breakaway socialist republics. Shocktherapy will only exacerbate anti-government opinions. If the enforcement wasn’t strong enough before, then this war is a good excuse to strengthen it now.

    Ukraine had by now two huge waves of shock therapy starting in 1991 and 2014 and few smaller ones, and the most noticeable effect of them was mass exodus of people both to Russia and to the west for nearly solely economical reasons. The breakaway was more a compound effect of shock therapy, the oppression of russian-speakers, coup trampling over the eastern Ukraine, and anticommunism somewhat too. Do remember that there are many russian-speakers in Ukraine that do identify as Ukrainians, and the chauvinist nation-building narration maidan clique presses is far from truth. Also history proven that the shock therapies in east Europe did not sparked nearly enough opposition to really change anything - in no country except Belarus they did change anything by themselves. people just sucked it up, with very active western support for the compradors making all the efforts to make it so.

    I linked you the IMF and G7 plans for post war looting of Ukraine which by all means will be probably one of the most tragic event that country witnessed since 1991… and the eagerness of the Zelensky government for allowing it. Of course things are still hanging because the looters don’t know if they would have anything to loot left after the war (meaning they are not sure Ukraine will still exist as a state), and Zelensky is so eager to please them because they are the only thing that are currently supporting his neonazi clique and he will need A LOT more material support if he’s gonna keep his butt on his office and not inside siberian prison. I just wonder where the line for support lie for them. Or if that really matter, since the profits are all going to private pockets of bourgeosise and all the costs are on the working class as usual in the imperialist wars.

    But these aren’t based on non-alienable traits. The first one is refuted in the reply by the commission. The second is the most damning but still doesn’t point towards punishments for private use. The third source even says that Russian is allowed as an option, as long as the publication is fully accessible in Ukrainian. Other countries have similar laws. Over time, Russian language use might die out because of them but it’s not apartheid.

    The institution most famous for blind support and propaganda of banderists is of course supporting the banderists. Can’t those pesky Russians, Greeks and Hungarians just stop being what they are and become good Ukrainians.

    You know, that’s not even just apartheid. That is, borrowing the popular liberal terminology, cultural genocide.

    Because I think it would be unpopular in Europe and they want Europe’s support.

    Sorry but you’re just denying reality at this point. EU media and politicians are just cheering them up no matter what they do.