Historian, veteran and public activist Vladislav Starodubtsev said that on October 18 in Lviv he was beaten in front of a lecture on the history of the local left movement. According to him, the attackers demanded to apologize for political views, refuse to host the event and leave the city. The police opened criminal proceedings on the fact of hooliganism.

  • Denys Nykula@piefed.social
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    16 days ago

    I am not my government. I will not self-censor criticism of their inaction against the far right while they fake progressivism on paper and speeches to get Western applause. I voted in the presidential elections, and it’s my president to criticize, in English if necessary to counter the state-sponsored narratives prepared for Western audiences. I follow anarcho-syndicalist and democratic socialist ideas and principles, and will not tone down my statements while the people wanting me and my comrades dead boost theirs up to eleven. I will call out specific politicians and organization that do harm, and it’s especially important during the Russian invasion not to let their accountability slip by a single inch. Ukrainians suffer from both the Russian invasion and the local politicians. To anyone who tone-polices me for politically “incorrect” things about Zelenskyi, Biletskyi, Klychko and others in power, please think whether you support the Ukrainians or the politicians - you really can’t do both; if you think you can, you’re likely knee deep into campism, just from a supposedly progressive angle. The war will continue for many more years, and the justice for human rights abuses can’t be delayed for some abstract point in the future.

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        16 days ago

        Thanks for the modlog mention though, I forgot about this feature. PieFed UI might be better if the reason from modlog showed near the deletion sign. What I saw was basically, I refresh the tab and my post that I spent an hour writing just disappears.