This struck me as interesting. A report out from the Pittsburgh post-gazette doing a retrospective piece of the Ukraine situation with the events leading up to our current moment.
Two things:

- It takes into account those Ukrainians on the eastern side of the LOC during the civil war.

-Pittsburg has a large Ukrainian immigrant population going back over a century. The ides of a Ukraine differs from generation to generation as the borders have constantly shifted.

Surprised to see it actually.

‘ As The Nation explained, the Azov Battalion is not merely Nazi in theory, but also in practice. In present-day Ukraine, “there are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.”…

…..’ The American press wrote about this sporadically before this year. Now the press does backflips to obscure and deny this reality.

However, the people of Donetsk, who have lived this reality now for almost nine years, are very clear that all of this is real. Indeed, I met people in Donetsk (some quite elderly) who volunteered back in 2014 to defend their land and their people from the Kiev government’s aggression.

Much of the government views the predominantly ethnic Russian people of the Donbas as inferior beings whose language and culture, including the Russian Orthodox Church, should be eradicated. I actually traveled to Donestk in a vehicle laden with clothes destined for a Russian Orthodox monastery in Donetsk that is constantly being shelled by the Kiev government. ’

Eastern Ukraine had good reason to join Russia, after Kyiv's aggression

Jeeze. Didn’t our man in Kiev just outlaw the Orthodox Russian church? I think it’s always helpful to have governments pick religions. It’s always worked so far.

Last edited by chunkstyle; 12/08/22 06:28 PM.