First of all, I have no intention of taking or promoting any side here, because I’m not well informed enough about what has happened since 2022… however, before getting burned out of the internet somewhen by the end of the last decade, I used to follow a lot of anarchist collectives. I was on Riseup and Autistici mailing lists, and I remember reading a lot about everything that was happening in Ukraine directly from the anarchists there, the protests being led by openly fascist paramilitary groups like the C14, Svoboda, Tryzub, Pravy Sektor, the SNA that became the Azov Battalion, tons of pictures and videos documenting everything and everyone, even American Blackwater mercenaries operating in the country. These fascist groups clashing with socialists, setting fire to union buildings and shooting people trying to escape, and now it’s hard to even find references to these groups and their actions on the internet, like it was sanitized (not so long ago, I also had trouble finding some materials from antizionist rabbis I had read back in the mid-2000s, I actually just found accusations of them being antisemitic on main search engines, so I really believe there is a lot of fuckery going on to control information)… and I’m afraid if I start talking about Donetsk and Lugansk I might get accused of something, so never mind.
I’m mentioning it because it has been only a few months since I joined Lemmy, and I’ve seen some controversy about accusations of nazis in Ukrainian lines, like it’s tankie propaganda or that Dugin shit… but, uh, back when pro-EU factions took the government, the anarchists had documented the nazis very well… is there a generational gap of information here? How many people were following anarchist press (not the shit you’d find on Twitter, Tumblr, or whatever) back in 2014?
ps: I’m not here to discuss Russia.
edit: fixed some grammar mistakes I noticed, but I’m no native speaker.
Whitewashing a country’s misdeeds because another is currently worse is one of the main hobbies of people on social media, especially Lemmy.
Every country is susceptible and they simply refuse to acknowledge that they’re lying to themselves because it makes them feel superior.
As a current example, articles in well-known Canadian publications consistently pretend they have zero MAGA-like conservatives, in spite of decades of evidence of the contrary and the 2025 election proving otherwise.
It just feels good for people to kick others when they’re down and feel like a better person.
And that well known (worse) example in recent years.
Holy Christ thanks for the info
For more info,
Mark Carney was nepotistic shoe in for the head of the Bank of England, closely working with the Conservative government, during the worst of the cull of the vulnerable disabled poor, often called “the fit-to-work scandal” (which I call “A Very British Genocide”), functioning like a witch hunt (if you drown you were not a witch). As I’ve oft seen said he “ran cover” for it. Over 130,000 people killed in very cruel ways, being starved, frozen, denied medication, stressed to suicide from the abuse and intentional breaches of duty of care. And under a decade of total corporate media blackout (and worse, egging on, like the Daily Mail’s lies, saying (iirc) something like 95% of all benefits claimants were conning the system (later revealed less than 0.7%)), until Francesca Martinez managed to break the silence on Question Time. And still many are completely oblivious to this having happened.
Good luck Canada.