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  • Look at the Wujek mine riot, miners were attacking militia with sharpened rebars and loudly threatening to lynch the captured militamen, but when single inexperienced detachment of militia which shouldn’t even been there opened fire (and despite entire chain of command from direct commander to minister Kiszczak and gen Jaruzelski absolutely forbidding this) it’s suddenly example of horrible martyrology and one of founding myths of comprador III RP.

    Of course hundreds of workers being murdered in the prewar Poland and dozens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of social murders after 1989 are not mentioned ever.





  • Ukraine is at war with Russia. Palestine is occupied by Israel. These are fundamentally different scenarios and we can’t pretend they have the same solution, even if we wish they did.

    The only difference is that Palestinians do not have an ally that is willing to save them militartily (except Yemen which can’t do much), but the people of Donbas do. One genocide was stopped and the other was not, but both are real. I can guarantee you that if someone invaded Israel after october 2023 now all libs would be crying about “holocaust 2” or however hasbara would name the just war against Israel.


  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mltoEurope@lemmy.mlNazi drip
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    5 days ago

    I don’t know much about the Ukraine, but I would think they wouldn’t have fond memories of Nazis.

    Well, during WW2 at least 7 million Ukrainians fought in the ranks of Red Army against nazis plus unknown but large number of partisans and their direct supporters, while 200000-250000 actively fought for nazis. Sadly the latter were evacuated after war to Germany, Canada etc. and were funded and used by western governments to ferment anticommunist propaganda and act against regimes enemies (like the Stepan Bandera himself that participated in possibly even over 100 political murders in West Germany and was tied to US, British and German intelligence agencies).

    When USSR was illegally dissolved in 1991, 75% of citizens od UkSSR voted against the dissolving in referendum, and thus against the independence of Ukraine. After which the nazis from previous paragraph returned in numbers and were still supported by western governments, slowly gaining more influence and power in Ukraine.

    Ukrainians themselves, if anything, shown surprising resistance, leading to west organising numerous coups to move Ukraine right and against Russia (1991, 2004, 2014, 2019) ultimately installing neonazis in power in 2014 and then throwing entire country into meatgrinder of proxy war (that’s why i’m counting 2019 as a coup too, Zelensky was explicitly elected as peace candidate but instead he escalated civil war which led to Russian intervention).

    Solidarity with Ukrainian people in getting rid of the nazi rot, but unfortunately it runs deep now and will require extraordinary efforts.