> Ukrainians marked their country’s 35th Independence Day on Monday with great pride — but little fanfare.
> There was none of the pageantry that accompanied the celebration in the past: Public holidays have been put on hold in Ukraine since February 2022, when Russian dictator Vladimir Putin launched the largest European invasion since World War II.
> Amid the daily horrors and ever-present dangers of Russia’s war, and internal debates over the wisdom of a wartime national election, it’s easy to understand why most Ukrainians don’t feel particularly festive.
Good article. Though
> He’s pretended to be at war with Ukrainian “Nazis” — a self-evidently absurd accusation to level against a country with a Jewish president.
That’s not the point. The point is that, in 1939 Russia was on the side of the Nazis and that, in the West we covered that up and forgot it because it suited us to defeat one enemy. That authoritarian ideal; taking away people’s freedom of speech and forcing them to support Putin; taking away their freedom of religion and forcing them to join the state controlled church or convert to Islam; taking away people’s right to fight for themselves and sending them as slaves to the meat waves of the front; all that is what our greatest generations fought against. Today’s Russia is much closer in spirit to the Russia that fought alongside Hitler than to the the Ukrainians that fought against him and it’s time we stood up against that.
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Just stop.
Like Ukraine’s any better. The Ukrainians are Russians, just a couple of generations removed.
Their secret police hunted down and killed an American journalist. So please stop acting like they’re the any better than the Russians.
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> Ukrainians marked their country’s 35th Independence Day on Monday with great pride — but little fanfare.
> There was none of the pageantry that accompanied the celebration in the past: Public holidays have been put on hold in Ukraine since February 2022, when Russian dictator Vladimir Putin launched the largest European invasion since World War II.
> Amid the daily horrors and ever-present dangers of Russia’s war, and internal debates over the wisdom of a wartime national election, it’s easy to understand why most Ukrainians don’t feel particularly festive.
Good article. Though
> He’s pretended to be at war with Ukrainian “Nazis” — a self-evidently absurd accusation to level against a country with a Jewish president.
That’s not the point. The point is that, in 1939 Russia was on the side of the Nazis and that, in the West we covered that up and forgot it because it suited us to defeat one enemy. That authoritarian ideal; taking away people’s freedom of speech and forcing them to support Putin; taking away their freedom of religion and forcing them to join the state controlled church or convert to Islam; taking away people’s right to fight for themselves and sending them as slaves to the meat waves of the front; all that is what our greatest generations fought against. Today’s Russia is much closer in spirit to the Russia that fought alongside Hitler than to the the Ukrainians that fought against him and it’s time we stood up against that.
Just stop.
Like Ukraine’s any better. The Ukrainians are Russians, just a couple of generations removed.
Their secret police hunted down and killed an American journalist. So please stop acting like they’re the any better than the Russians.