“I don’t know and at this point I’m too afraid to ask” moment: Are the DPR and LPR actually socialist? Searching it up on the Western, English language internet is, very unsurprisingly, basically zero useful results. And even if they all said “they’re socialist”, the West’s definition of socialism is frankly all over the place.
All of Ukraine was socialist up until the dissolution of the USSR. But after the 2014 maidan coup, the donbass republics held a referendum to separate, that 87% of the population supported. The nazi kiev regime has been attacking them ever since.
They certainly have socialist sympathies, but more importantly they are fighting and dying in an anti-imperialist struggle against Ukraine.
LPR and DPR have started from a genuine popular uprising as a reaction to Euromaidan coup. The wave of social explosion have pushed people with, well, more or less lack of consistent political ideology, to the leadership positions, and in first years most of the popular leaders have been assassinated (some expressed anti-oligarch views, even though there has never been a proper socialist movement), leaving only the likes of Igor Strelkov (who is a known fan of White movement and has long and deep history with Russia) in control. Additionally there’s, like, fishy election manipulation wrt. organized communist movements. Like, DPR’s communist party (ignoring the question of how communist they are) was banned from elections in 2018 by a backdated state decision of its dissolution in 2016 that nobody in the party knew about.
Like, the only way in which you can consider them any sort of “leftist” is that some forces use Soviet flags as cumsocks for bourgeoisie interests.
“I don’t know and at this point I’m too afraid to ask” moment: Are the DPR and LPR actually socialist? Searching it up on the Western, English language internet is, very unsurprisingly, basically zero useful results. And even if they all said “they’re socialist”, the West’s definition of socialism is frankly all over the place.
All of Ukraine was socialist up until the dissolution of the USSR. But after the 2014 maidan coup, the donbass republics held a referendum to separate, that 87% of the population supported. The nazi kiev regime has been attacking them ever since.
They certainly have socialist sympathies, but more importantly they are fighting and dying in an anti-imperialist struggle against Ukraine.
Read this recent article by the Russian communist party on their support for the republics: https://cprf.ru/2022/05/in-ukraine-russia-is-fighting-neo-nazism/
Hell no, of course not. Why would they be?
deleted by creator
LPR and DPR have started from a genuine popular uprising as a reaction to Euromaidan coup. The wave of social explosion have pushed people with, well, more or less lack of consistent political ideology, to the leadership positions, and in first years most of the popular leaders have been assassinated (some expressed anti-oligarch views, even though there has never been a proper socialist movement), leaving only the likes of Igor Strelkov (who is a known fan of White movement and has long and deep history with Russia) in control. Additionally there’s, like, fishy election manipulation wrt. organized communist movements. Like, DPR’s communist party (ignoring the question of how communist they are) was banned from elections in 2018 by a backdated state decision of its dissolution in 2016 that nobody in the party knew about.
Like, the only way in which you can consider them any sort of “leftist” is that some forces use Soviet flags
as cumsocks for bourgeoisie interests.