• yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 days ago

    i dont use tumblr and no longer have an account (mainstream social media bullshit anyway) but i found this rb from another blog i look at anonymously for takes on geopol/ukraine conflict and uh. yeah haha. wow

    • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 days ago

      also, yes wikipedia is rags for anything regarding geopol, yesyes, but it’s also funny seeing how people can first see how their stuff on palestine is wrong (endlessly charitable to israel, we know this), but then ukraine: since ppl cant see western bias and lean towards ukraine, you can go to stuff like stepan bandera’s wikipedia page and just see 'he’s a far right politician who SOME call a fascist (because his followers killed jews and poles en masse, it’s truly so complicated)" like wow

      • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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        10 days ago

        from something called genevasolutions / https://genevasolutions.news/ukraine-stories/who-was-stepan-bandera-ukraine-s-controversial-nationalist-figure as i did cursory search for stepan bandera

        Revered by many as a national hero who fought Soviet domination, and as a fascist responsible for killing tens of thousands by others, Stepan Bandera remains a deeply divisive figure in Ukraine. …Who was he and what do we know?

        Stepan Bandera (1909-1959), was the leader of a radical Ukrainian nationalist group, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) formed in 1929 in western Ukraine. At that time, that territory was Polish. In the Second World War, the OUN collaborated with Nazi occupiers for a while in the hope of gaining support for the establishment of an independent Ukraine. It reversed its position in 1941 when Germany made it clear it didn’t support an independent Ukraine. After the war, Stepan Bandera continued to oppose Russia’s Soviet regime, which ended up assassinating him in 1959.

        During WWII, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was formed, and ethnic cleansings were carried out in Volynia, Poland. Although Bandera was the leader of the liberation movement, he didn’t personally take part in these actions, nor did he directly participate in the anti-Soviet movement of western Ukraine. Despite these ambiguities, today, he is considered a symbol of resistance by many Ukrainians. His idolisation and that of the Ukrainian nationalists who fought against the USSR began in the 1990s, when far right activists emerged in western Ukraine.

        • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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          10 days ago

          trying to follow no investigation no right to speak and trying to find good sources but im on the western interwebs… ha…

          • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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            10 days ago

            OH MY FUCKING GOD

            Bandera is a symbol of Ukrainian resilience and fearless behaviour. He inspired others to fight for independence through his actions. That’s why Putin wants to discredit him.