Randahl FinkJul 4, 2023

I have often wondered why Putin's attack on #Ukraine angers me so deeply.

Walking on the beaches of Lillebælt, I realized it is because of this:

To this day, we Danes still see the concrete fortifications left by the Nazis on our shores, because 1 fascist leader got the insane idea, he had the right to topple our democracy.

He had no right. All he had was the delusion he was somehow supreme to everyone else.

We stopped the fascist in 1945.

We will stop the fascist now.

Show threadMatthew KayJul 5, 2023
@randahl @mark I agree that nazism must be crushed. One of the stated purposes of Russia’s SMO is the denazification of ukraine. It completely ignores history to label Russia as the nazis. Millions of Russian speakers died fighting nazis. Many of those nazis called ukrainian territory home. Ukrainian troops are being asked to cover the nazi symbols on their uniforms before being photographed by MSM. Read up on the Azov brigade or Stepan Bandera then talk, or not.
Show threadKerry Mitchell 🍁Jul 5, 2023
@MatthewKay @randahl @mark Maybe read up on the history of the present war. Don’t believe the nonsense spread by dopey “anti-imperialist” tankies who cling to a fantasy of a “dictatorship of the proletariat” so hard that they’ll support any dictator. https://kyivindependent.com/illia-ponomarenko-why-some-ukrainian-soldiers-use-nazi-related-insignia/
Illia Ponomarenko: Why some Ukrainian soldiers use Nazi-related insignia

You're closely following the living history of a nation bravely resisting an imperialistic war of aggression that has inspired the world when, all of a sudden, you come across a picture of a Ukrainian soldier wearing a Totenkopf "skull and crossbones" patch or giving the Nazi salute. Rightfully so, the

The Kyiv Independent
Show threadMatthew KayJul 5, 2023
@KerryMitchell @randahl @mark I’m an anti war, anarchist, villagist. I have no idea what a “tankie” is and don’t care. I live in the middle of a country that just finished celebrating a jingoistic holiday of flagpole deepthroating. And I’m tired of seeing propaganda that encourages sending young men and women into a meat grinder. Asking me to take a conflict out of the context of history is laughable.
Show threadKerry Mitchell 🍁Jul 5, 2023
@MatthewKay @randahl @mark A tankie is the sort of communist for whom Stalin could do no wrong - including expropriating land from the Ukrainians and subjecting them to the Holodomor, which further, they deny having happened. They also like to say they just want peace, but support Russia at every turn.
Show threadMatthew KayJul 5, 2023
@KerryMitchell @randahl @mark I’m definitely not a tankie then and definitely no fan of russia. The article you linked REEKED of western propaganda. Do you honestly believe the Azov brigade was just absorbed into the ukrainian military and renounced their political beliefs? Really?? The whole article was nothing more than whitewashing.
Show threadKerry Mitchell 🍁Jul 5, 2023
@MatthewKay @randahl @mark Ponomarenko has been embedded with the Ukrainian armed forces and is clearly not neutral, but he’s in as good a place to know what’s going on with neo-Nazis and the far right inside the military of that country as anyone. I believe him when he says they’ve been limited in their influence and aren’t running the military, let alone civilian institutions. Who are you going to believe? The Grayzone? Rossiyskaya Gazeta?
Show threadMatthew Kay
@KerryMitchell @randahl @mark “Who are you going to believe?” That is the real question. If there is power, profit or politics involved then all are considered through a very skeptical lens.
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