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Title: Battlespace Ukraine Author: Dmitry Mrachnik Date: 13 March 2022 Language: en Topics: Ukraine, anti-fascism, manifesto, war Source: Retrieved on 14th March 2022 from https://www.nihilist.li/2022/03/13/battlespace-ukraine-a-manifesto-against-fascism-and-human-duplicity/ Notes: Translation by K0tyk.
The worst has happened. Eight years of the frozen Russian invasion into
Ukraine culminated in an explosion: hundreds of thousands of soldiers
from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation stormed the entire
border of Ukraine with Russia, and most of the border with Belarus.
Vladimir Putin is secluding himself in complete informational and
ideological isolation, so his demands from the Ukrainian leadership are
ultimately senseless. The Russian armed forces have strong artillery,
rockets, and aviation but utterly fail when clashing with the Ukrainians
directly; entire Russian units surrender or scatter and run in hopes of
returning home. Russian armored vehicles and the corpses of the invaders
are scattered all over our country. The Putin regime could not care less
about the lives of its own military.
Unable to prevail over the Ukrainians on the ground or to force the
government into any concessions, the Russians are shooting civilians and
ruining cities. In occupied settlements, they’re harassing locals in
plain sight, murdering, robbing, raping and getting drunk. The occupiers
are confused, scared and desperate; they have no motivation other than
to pillage or to save their miserable lives. The soldiers of Russia are
unlikely to believe in their own war mythologies as deeply as their
TV-watching compatriots; they just want it all to end as soon as
possible. They also want to carry home the trophies they have stolen
from civilians: cars, appliances, gadgets, clothes, vodka bottles and
even homemade jars of pickled vegetables.
Right now, Russia is nothing less than a fascist regime that has
overtaken their administrative system, as well as their ideology. The
statements by their government propagandists are an exact replica of
what Joseph Goebbles had his Third Reich ministry produce; in some ways
modern Russian ideology seems to have photocopied the Nazi field guides
of the late ’30s. This preposterous mess nests inside hundreds of
thousands of soldiers, vehicles, rockets, attack planes, and nuclear
bombs. The entire world is cutting its economic and cultural
partnerships with Russia. The Russian national currency has lost value,
their supermarket shelves are suddenly empty, and their people are
unemployed.
The brightest heads of Russia are hurrying to escape their borders,
having zero hope for a Russian revolution, as Putin still holds total
control despite the economic sanctions and exceptional military losses.
The Russian police are persecuting, beating up and torturing people, and
the Russian bourgeoisie — the fundament of the Putin regime — has
absolutely no idea what to do with this. Months of hunger, unemployment
and social depression will have passed before the government machine
loses its first cogs. Before that happens, thousands of Ukrainian
soldiers will have died, as well as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian
civilians, including children. The enemy has no compassion, no
conscience and no decency; the Russians will gladly commit any war crime
that makes their unattainable mirage of victory appear any closer.
Russia will not stop bombing Ukraine with tin cans of human minced meat
until they run out of oil to deliver another batch of predestined
corpses to their combat positions. Their soldiers will fight in the
cold, lacking food and water, as long as they have ammunition and
armaments.
In this horrible time, Ukrainians are not only displaying their courage
and self-sacrifice, but also an incredible degree of all other human
virtues. Whatever the ethnic background, belief system, social status,
and/or language any of us have, we have united around our common ideal
of freedom and justice, and our shared hatred of inimical ideas. We do
not strive for victory because of an obsession with dominance. We aren’t
looking for a king. None of us rejoice in sadist degradations. We cannot
stand aside any longer, and neither will our sisters and brothers remain
voiceless migrant workers. Ukraine has suffered enough, and it is time
for cold-blooded payback for all the crimes committed against our
people. No truce will separate us from our end goal of the destruction
of the Russian Federation and its puppet regimes.
Not only do we have to liberate Ukraine, including the Donbas and
Crimea; we have to liberate our Belarusian neighbors. We have to scrape
out every fascist bit of Russia and likely reformat it so that its
existence will never be able to harm us again. It will be a democratic
Russian Republic, lacking any nuclear weaponry or imperialist potential.
We will split the Russian Federation, bringing justice to all the
peoples it has been exploiting. The Russians must complete a
defascistication course, including their derussification, and it will
not be an easy period. Their suffering has already begun. Still, their
future position primarily depends on how resolute they are right now —
the more courage for a revolt they raise today, the less suffering they
will have to endure tomorrow. Considering the obstinance of the
bourgeoisie loyal to Putin, if I were a Russian, they would be the first
targets of rebel violence; however, it is all up to the Russians. What
is up to the Ukrainians right now is to stand firm.
The future task for Ukraine will be to defend and multiply all the
political and humanitarian victories that we have accumulated since the
beginning of the war. Free thought, mutual trust and solidarity must
become the hymn of the civil life of our future country. Unfortunately,
any progress has its price set in blood, so after we have rebuffed
Russian aggression, we will have to preserve this achievement. The
Ukrainian people have paid an exceptional price to save our spirit from
the Russian bombs, and we must maintain this spirit for many more
centuries. In the post-war Ukraine, we will tolerate no dictatorial
inclinations, no avarice or duplicity. Ukrainians — all the people who
have contributed to the making of our country and our ideals — will
enjoy freedom and welfare, while any oppression and poverty will be
synonyms to the odious Russian fascism and its crimes.
The Maidan Revolution of 2014 has triggered some irreversible democratic
changes, which we have successfully retained despite all the military
and economic hardship. The full-scale war of 2022 will be a multiplying
factor in the Ukrainian achievements of freedom and justice for the
future. Without our courage and sacrifices, we would not have lasted a
day in this war. The strength of our military and the selflessness of
our leadership would be nothing without the dignified spirit of the
people. More tears and grief are still ahead. Nonetheless, we will
abolish all the dictatorship and slavery around us — forever. Ukraine
can become the core of the self-liberation of this world; the shelter,
the hope and the guide of all the oppressed, the persecuted, and the
hungry: everything we need to bring life to this dream is in our hands.