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Corruption, treason in Ukraine won't be tolerated, Zelenskiy says (www.reuters.com)

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[-] AWildMimicAppears@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Ukraine has come a long way in fighting their corruption issues (which were in part caused by russian loyalists). I really hope they can kick out Putin quick and then join the EU.

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[-] knexcar@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It’s surprising seeing so much Ukraine hate in one comments section. Did something major happen that changed public opinion?

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[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Communists are very against fascist Russia. It's just a small totalitarian-minded group masking as communists here who support Russia or some honeypot/psyop

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[-] Addfwyn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

which by some weird thought process becomes a pro-Russian position.

I am a communist and the prevailing attitude in most circles I am in is not an explicitly pro-Russian one, it's just not explicitly pro-Ukraine either. There is a also an underlying understanding of the reasons why the war started. Just because you don't support one side does not mean you have to 100% uncritically support the opposing side. The sooner we stop thinking of everything in black/white terms of Team A vs Team B, we will be a lot better off.

Now there are those who have nostalgia for the USSR, which is not the modern Russian Federation, but it's fairly niche. Usually people understand that modern Russia is not the soviet union. There are the patsocs too, but we don't really claim them.

I am not the Official Spokesman of Communism, but those are generally the attitudes I have seen in most of my circles.

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Fairly niche? Most of the lemmygrad people are outright idolizing every totalitarian 'marxist' regime of the past century.

I totally get left ideology and do agree with Marx' ideology, but I've never understood how simping for autocrats fits into that.

When I read that Lemmy had an active communist group I was looking forward to that, but the vehemence of the debate and the apologetic whitewashing of history really turned me off.

So yeah, please a debate that isn't so black and white is very welcome imho.

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[-] Devious_Thoughts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Public opinion only gets more positive for Ukraine with each of these high level corruption arrests.

Tankies and dumbasses, think it proves their point that Ukraine will continue to be corrupt.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

This is lemmy.ml, which is full of clueless tankies who confuse modern fascist Russia with the Soviet Union and love to consume Russian and Chinese propaganda. Anything "Western" is automatically bad and evil (those damn Anglos or something) and since Ukraine is backed by NATO, it has to be the bad guy. Take a wild guess at what the ".ml" means.