War on Ukraine: Russian Feminists Vociferously Condemn

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Sukla Sen

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Mar 1, 2022, 10:48:55 PM3/1/22
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<<On February 24, at around 5:30 AM Moscow time, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a “special operation” on the territory of Ukraine in order to “denazify” and “demilitarize” this sovereign state. This operation had long been in preparation. For several months, Russian troops were moving up to the border with Ukraine. At the same time, the leadership of our country denied any possibility of a military attack. Now we see that this was a lie.

Russia has declared war on its neighbor. It did not allow Ukraine the right to self-determination nor any hope of a peaceful life. We declare — and not for the first time — that war has been waged for the last eight years at the initiative of the Russian government. The war in Donbas is a consequence of the illegal annexation of Crimea. We believe that Russia and its president are not and have never been concerned about the fate of people in Luhansk and Donetsk, and the recognition of the republics after eight years was only a pretext for the invasion of Ukraine under the guise of liberation.

As Russian citizens and feminists, we condemn this war. Feminism as a political force cannot be on the side of a war of aggression and military occupation. The feminist movement in Russia struggles for vulnerable groups and the development of a just society with equal opportunities and prospects, in which there can be no place for violence and military conflicts.>>

Sukla Sen

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Mar 2, 2022, 2:29:47 AM3/2/22
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Russia had started mobilising on Ukraine's borders about three months before the actual massive invasion: <https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2021/11/24/russia-s-military-build-up-near-ukraine-is-different-this-time-say-experts>.
And almost till the very last just kept pooh-poohing the apprehensions of the invasion: <https://tass.com/world/1404247>.
The repeated warnings from the US were routinely projected as misinformation campaign by the US: <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/01/15/ukra-j15.html> and <https://tass.com/russia/1402193>.

Almost on the eve of the invasion, in the making for about three months in terms of actual mobilisation on the ground, an utterly deceptive announcement of troops withdrawal is made: <https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ukraine-russia-war-invasion-live-26225775>.


Then Putin, finally on Feb. 21, spoke on why the war?
To be fair, he was, for once, remarkably forthright in his address to the nation.

No pussyfooting.
Clearly identified Ukraine as a part of Russia, by referring to the glorious (Tsarist) past.
(No, he didn't name Peter the Great or Ivan the Terrible.)
Strongly castigated Lenin, as the architect of modern Ukraine, and chastised Stalin for doing only a half-job - completely subjugated Ukraine and yet not formally erased its separate identity that had been granted by Lenin.

Now, he's out to finish what Stalin had left only half done to go back to glory days of the past (under the Tsars).

Some very helpful fragments:
I. "I would like to emphasise again that Ukraine is not just a neighbouring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space."
II. "I will start with the fact that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia. This process started practically right after the 1917 revolution, and Lenin and his associates did it in a way that was extremely harsh on Russia – by separating, severing what is historically Russian land."
III. "When it comes to the historical destiny of Russia and its peoples, Lenin’s principles of state development were not just a mistake; they were worse than a mistake, as the saying goes. This became patently clear after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991."
IV. "Soviet Ukraine is the result of the Bolsheviks’ policy and can be rightfully called “Vladimir Lenin’s Ukraine.”"
V. "It is logical that the Red Terror and a rapid slide into Stalin’s dictatorship, the domination of the communist ideology and the Communist Party’s monopoly on power, nationalisation and the planned economy – all this transformed the formally declared but ineffective principles of government into a mere declaration. In reality, the union republics did not have any sovereign rights, none at all. The practical result was the creation of a tightly centralised and absolutely unitary state."
V. "And yet, it is a great pity that the fundamental and formally legal foundations of our state were not promptly cleansed [by Stalin] of the odious and utopian fantasies [of Lenin] inspired by the revolution, which are absolutely destructive for any normal state."

Also, on what he's out to achieve:
"[T]oday the “grateful progeny” [i.e. independent Ukraine] has overturned monuments to Lenin in Ukraine. They call it decommunization.
"You want decommunization? Very well, this suits us just fine. But why stop halfway? We are ready to show what real decommunizations would mean for Ukraine [i.e. complete erasure of Ukraine's separate identity that was the doing of the Communist regime]."


That's a very cursory mapping of how the things actually developed.

Not to miss that the explanation proffered above is far from altogether novel.
Putin, in fact, had put it elaborately forward in a 5000 word signed article in July 2021.
But, it goes even further back.
The July 2021 article is only a comprehensive articulation of the position that Ukraine is a part and parcel of (Mother) Russia.
Little to do with NATO or whatever - regardless of what the NATO stands for and/or stood for.

It's the pursuance of that notion with fiendish determination started finding expression on the ground since about three months back culminating in the massive bloody assault.

Ok, Putin is, now, out to gobble Ukraine up.
And he may even pretty well succeed.

But, the issue is whether he can digest.
The then USSR had to return from Afghanistan with a bloody nose and not too long after it would simply vanish from the political map of the world.
Interestingly, what happened to US in the wake of Vietnam or, even, Afghanistan is markedly different.

Dictators, usually, have a very short memory; they all too easily tend to believe in their own invincibility.
Putin may, perhaps, be banking on his experience in Syria.
But, that may - in a not-too-distant future, spell the doom of his Kleptocratic regime.

Assuming, of course, that the human world won't perish before that.

Sukla

P.S.: Just to clarify, which should have been even otherwise pretty clear, that the statement is not mine.
Just have a look at the subject line of this post.
Am not from Russia.

As regards semi-Nazis, the present Ukrainian President - voted to that position with a landslide majority defeating the then incumbent one, is a Jew himself.

And Ukraine has been the first to be attacked has much to do with its failure to obtain the NATO membership.

Now, traditionally neutral Finland and Sweden are considering joining the NATO.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, 11:59 Agneta Norberg <lappland...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sukla Sen. I think your statement about Russia is wrong and lack a background of what has been going on in Ukraine, historicly  (WWll) and the last 8 years  from  2014 till now, when the  very dubious semi/nazis took power.
Russia has been VERY patient  for 8 years.We who remember what Ukraine was exposed to by the 
German Nazi have another view.
We have to scrutinize rumours that  the US´ have deployed  bacterial sites and erected other dangerous
bases in Ukraine .We should remember US´ plans for a national missile defence site which was not realized,
but the missiles will now be deployed in Poland and Rumania.
 During the years since ,2014,the Ukrainian people didn´t rule- it were US´puppetsa nd some with a nazi touch.
 The former president, Victor Janukovich, had to flee for his life in, 2014, when the nazis took power
in Kiev. And Russia´s president Vladimir Putin has through the years  again and again put 
forward peacesuggestions: Minsk 1 and Minsk ll, but the US´ president Biden has almost ridiculed 
the suggestions.
USA/CIA/NED are to be blamed for setting up this tragedy. 
The arms factories,Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Electric,
General Dynamics, and more have more or less cynically expressed their satisfaction 
for   this  dangerous outcome!  And today Swedish Minister of Defence and Swedish 
 Minister  of Foreign Affairs have not  said ONE word of explanation or background reasons
 which might lower the growing  russo-phobiia in full swing in Swedish media .
On the contrary they have fueled it and excluded everything which might
have  given president  Putin a human face.
For a starter read: FLASHPOINT in UKRAINE. How the US Drive for Hegemony 
Risks WWlll.Red. Stephen Lendman.
Agneta Norberg, Chair  Swedish Council. 
.


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Sukla Sen

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Mar 2, 2022, 6:55:25 AM3/2/22
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Apart from anything else there's a biological weapons convention in place that prohibits development of all biological weapons.
So, it's well-nigh impossible that info confirming existence of such would be freely provided by an entity - even only, complicit in that act.

But, it's highly doubtful whether even any Wuhan type biological labs are there.
In that event people in the know would have been concerned about the safety aspects.

By all appearance, it's only motivated propaganda.

Sukla

On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, 15:55 Dr. Stefan Rother <ma...@stefan-rother.de> wrote:

Several  fact checks including these two argue that this is fake news and desinformation:

 

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/25/tweets/there-are-no-us-run-biolabs-ukraine-contrary-socia/

 

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/25/fact-check-claim-us-biolabs-ukraine-disinformation/6937923001/

 

Uuh, but they are from the U.S.!!!

…Some might say. Well, at least they provide sources and other references to follow-up on .

A link to the US embassy statement the email below claims to exist Is missing on the other hand

 

Actually, 3 days earlier quite a different statement was made:

https://ua.usembassy.gov/u-s-ukraine-partnership-to-reduce-biological-threats/

 

 

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A few hours earlier, had posted here an open letter to the IAEA calling it upon to intervene in order to ensure safety of the, defunct and functioning, nuclear installations in Ukraine.

 

As of now, no one appears to be batting an eyelid for the safety of these biological labs - assuming, for now, they actually exist. (Never mind that the claim has in no way be substantiated.)

 

Sukla

 

On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, 14:10 Agneta Norberg <lappland...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,I think it is timely now to scrutinize what exactly the US has been  doing in Ukraine

I searched ,US military bases in Ukraine, and found the  following on Stalker Zone: 

In 2020 -04-25 the US Embassy in Ukraine has acknowledged that the US has installed biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine controlled by Pentagon.

This statement came as an answer to an open letter from the Peace movement in Ukraine

about the threat to the people this implies. 

The US have more than 400 biological laboratories in the world:

 15 in Ukraine:They are financed by the US´ Defence Department. In Ukraine you find them 

at  the following places: Odessa, Vinytsia, Uzhgorod, Lvov(3), Kiev(3), Kherson, Ternopol, near Crimea, and Lugansk. President Victor Yushenko and Julia Tymoshenko allowed the US to install these laboratories in, 2005. 

Greetings from Agneta Norberg,  chair Swedish Peace Council

 

Den ons 2 mars 2022 kl 04:48 skrev Sukla Sen <sukl...@gmail.com>:

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