Here’s how Ukraine was being reported by the West before the war.
Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.
These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity.
Five years after Maidan, the beacon of democracy is looking more like a torchlight march. A neo-Nazi battalion in the heart of Europe
If you whitewash NAZI POGROMS just because you want to beat Russia, fuck you. Siding with far-right fascists to defeat far-right fascists doesn’t make you the good guy. There is no lesser of two evils here.
If you dismiss any criticism of Ukraine as Russian propaganda, you might want to ask why the rest of the world, including the West, was concerned about Nazism in the area and then suddenly changed their tune only after the war started.
We should be getting both sides into peace negotiations, not prolonging the bloodshed and providing Nazis with illegal cluster bombs
I’m concerned you’re doing a satire, and I’m concerned that it means you’re being a tankie. Fuck Russia. You don’t get to whitewash the murder and torture and deportation of civilians as a justified war on Nazi’s in the region.
What are you a Trump bot? There’s nothing satirical about Reuter’s reporting. These are extremely serious journalistic outfits.
This is so disappointing. That people like you would deny ethnic cleansing of eastern ukrainians. You are definitely a Trump voter.
What does being a “tankie” (lol) have to do with supporting Russia as it exists today? It is no longer a communist country. Did you fall asleep in 1990 and just now wake up? That would explain a lot
You’re a child
Why do libs talk like this?
to understand that you must do a growth
You’re rooting for people who made the person who committed the holocaust in that region their hero.
You want to stand shoulder to shoulder with literal fucking nazis and call anyone who has a problem with you a ‘tankie’
Well you dumb motherfucker, the tankies were the ones who defeated the nazis in the first place.
Hexbear and Lemmygrad are tankie instances and the maintainers of the Lemmy software are tankies.
Please don’t engage in anarchist erasure, we’re not just a tankie instance we’re an anartankie instance
I love getting called a tankie because that’s what libs call everyone to their left now
TANKIE!
(I really want a version of the Cowboy Bebop opening but all the silhouettes are great tankies from history now.)
Need
but it’s 
The anarchists are the biggest tankies of all
Please don’t engage in understatements we’re not just an anartankie instance we’re the anartankie instance
Definition’s changed. If you aren’t a full-throated supporter of NATO in all circumstances, you’re a tankie now. Don’t take everything western oligarchs say about their official enemies at face value? Tankie. Don’t want to build a throne of Chinese skulls? Please sign for your T-34.
It’s salami tactics in action. Libs started out by applying the term to hardline Marxist-Leninists, then gradually sliced off more and more moderate tendencies until they could shut out anything to the left of liberal capitalism for being “reactionary.”
I wonder wot Stalin wud have thought of the term ‘anartankie’
Being a tankie is a good thing
Yes
Never forget that the tankies liberated Auschwitz
I’m something of a moron myself.
“I’m concerned you’re doing a satire, and I’m concerned that it means you’re being a tankie”
Who do I talk to about new site taglines?
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