Som jag skrev tidigare vacklade jag lite när jag inledningsvis fick höra om det ryska angreppet mot Ukraina. För jag tänkte att det kanske var en operation som endast avsåg att förvara de rysktalande "folkrepublikerna" mot Ukrainas armé. Och jag var inte säker på att jag i det läget ville ta ställning för Ukraina. .
Men när jag insåg att det var ett fullskaligt angrepp mot hela Ukraina blev det inte svårt att ta ställning. Vilket också påverkar vilka länkar om Ukraina jag lägger ut på denna blogg.
Nedan ett uttalande från den ryska organisationen Socialister mot krig Jag tänkte först endast lägga ut länken, kombinerat med några utvalda citat från texten. Men det är ju många som inte klickar på länkar, så jag väljer att lägga ut texten som helhet.
Texten är länkad från tidningen International Wiepoint och är följaktligen en engelsk översättning.
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Manifesto of the “Socialists Against War” Coalition
Sunday 20 March 2022, by Socialists Against War
The Russian state’s power was based on the
promises of peace and stability, and eventually led the country to war
and economic catastrophe.
Like any other war in history, the current one divides everyone into
two parties: pros and cons. Kremlin propaganda is trying to convince us
that the whole nation has rallied around power. And miserable ancestors,
pro-Western liberals and mercenaries of the external enemy are fighting
for peace. It’s a completely untenable lie.
This time the Kremlin elders were
in the minority. Most Russians do not want fratricidal war, even among
those who still trust the Russian authorities. They close their eyes so
as not to see the world drawn by propagandists fell apart. They still
hope that what is happening is not a war, especially not aggressive, but
a “special operation” designed to “liberate” the Ukrainian people.
Terrible footage of brutal bombing and shelling of cities will soon
destroy these myths. And then even Putin’s most loyal voters will say:
we did not give you consent to carry out this unjust war!
But already now, tens of millions of people across the country are
horrified and disgusted by what Putin’s administration is doing. These
are people of different beliefs. Most of them are not liberals at all,
as propagandists claim. Among them there are a lot of left-wing,
socialist or communist people. And of course, these people – the
majority of our people – are sincere patriots of our Motherland.
We are told falsely that the opponents of this war are hypocrites.
That they are not against war, but only in support of the West. It’s a
lie. We have never been supporters of the United States and its
imperialist policy. When Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk and Lugansk,
we were not silent. Let’s not remain silent even now that Kharkiv, Kiev
and Odessa are bombed on the orders of Putin and his camarilla.
There are many reasons to fight against this war. For us, supporters
of social justice, equality and freedom, several of them are especially
important.
• It’s an unfair, war of conquest. There was no and there is no such
threat to the Russian state for which it was necessary to send our
soldiers to kill and die. Today they don’t “release anyone.” They don’t
help any people’s movement. It’s just that the regular army is smashing
peaceful Ukrainian cities by order of a handful of billionaires who
dream of maintaining their power over Russia forever.
• This war leads to innumerable disasters for our peoples. Both
Ukrainians and Russians pay dearly for it with their blood. But even far
away in the rear, poverty, inflation, unemployment will affect
everyone. The bills will be paid not by oligarchs and officials, but by
poor teachers, workers, pensioners and the unemployed. Many of us will
have nothing to feed the children.
• This war will reduce Ukraine to ruins and Russia into one big
prison. Opposition media are already closed. People are thrown behind
bars for leaflets, harmless pickets, even for posts on social networks.
Soon the Russians will have only one choice: between prison and the
military registration and enlistment office. The war brings with it a
dictatorship that living generations have not yet seen.
• This war significantly increases all risks and threats to our
country. Even those Ukrainians who sympathized with Russia a week ago
now enroll in the militia to fight our troops. With his aggression,
Putin nullified all the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists, all the
intrigues of American and NATO hawks. Putin gave them such arguments
that new missiles and military bases would almost certainly appear along
the perimeter of our borders.
• Finally, the struggle for peace is a patriotic duty of every
Russian. Not only because we are the keepers of the memory of the most
terrible war in history. But also because this war threatens the
integrity and very existence of Russia.
Putin is trying to tightly link his own destiny with the fate of our
country. If he succeeds, his inevitable defeat will be the defeat of the
whole nation. And then the fate of post-war Germany can really wait for
us: occupation, territorial partition, cult of collective guilt.
There is only one way to prevent these disasters. The war must be
stopped by ourselves – men and women of Russia. This country belongs to
us, not a handful of mad old people with palaces and yachts. It’s time
to get it back. Our enemies are not in Kiev and Odessa, but in Moscow.
It’s time to kick them out of there. War is not Russia. War is Putin and
his regime. Therefore, we, the Russian Socialists and Communists, are
against this criminal war. We want to stop her to save Russia.
No intervention!
No dictatorship!
No poverty!
