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not-quite-east, not-quite-west screaming into the void about anti imperialism and anti fascism

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · Apr 11

must-read about importance of building cross-cultural solidarity. it’s sad that some cant see this.

if you can understand ukraines fight against russian colonialism, surely you can understand Palestine’s fight and other anti colonial resistance struggles lausancollective.com/2021/periphe...

The periphery has no time for binaries - Lausan

We must spend our time building transnational solidarity amongst our communities and diasporas, not engaging solely in 'online discourse.'

lausancollective.com

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ROMEA @romeacz.bsky.social · 18h

Czech politician Filip Turek—rumored candidate for Foreign Minister—once praised the near-fatal burning of a Romani toddler as a "mitigating circumstance" for neo-Nazi attackers.
📲 Read the full report via Romea.cz: 1url.cz/@turek-racism

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 18h

5/ and then there's the fact that this government wants SPD to hold the office of minister of defense. a far right nationalist xenophobic party that is blatantly pro russian. lovely. excellent timing.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 18h

4/ "burning anyone is stupid, but the fact that a 'gypsy' got burned should actually be considered a mitigating circumstance, it's exactly the opposite." meaning, because the victim was Romani, the act was somehow less serious or offensive and makes it more plausible or excusable.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 18h

3/ a group of czech neo nazis threw molotov cocktails at the family's house, leaving a three year old girl with burns on 80% of her body and permanent disfigurement. the man who this government wants to put forward as the minister of foreign affairs said:

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 18h

2/ not only has he flirted with nazi imagery in the recent past, but quotes of his on social media were uncovered where he speaks about an arson attack that took place in 2009 against a romani family on hitler's birthay.

🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 18h

1/ remember how i said things were bad but could be a lot worse since both SPD and Motoristé got lower numbers than expected in the elections? well, unfortunately it is getting worse. filip turek of Motoristé is who the new PM wants to appoint as the minister of foreign affairs.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

Besides the unsurprising antisemitism, it’s further proof that Kirk was fine with changing positions based on who was funding him

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 2d

Good to see in print this text that Maria Sonevytsky read at our RUTA conference in Ukraine this Summer, on the meaning of house keys for Crimean Tatars following 1940s Soviet deportations and genocide under Stalin, and the Palestinians since the Nakba www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/everyd...

Everyday Amulets: On House Keys from Crimea to Palestine and Beyond

House keys recur in the family stories of both Crimean Tatars and Palestinians displaced from their respective homelands in the 1940s, and in accounts of Ukrainian citizens fleeing Russian invasion si...

www.londonukrainianreview.org

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

28/ To dismiss the link between Soviet nostalgia and Russia’s actions is to erase the lived histories of nations that endured both Soviet and Russian domination.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

27/ Western admirers who indulge in Soviet romanticism, even aesthetically or unknowingly, obscure this reality, allowing imperial myths to masquerade as liberation.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

26/ The continuity between Soviet nostalgia and modern Russian aggression is undeniable. The Kremlin has institutionalized reverence for the USSR, waging wars in the language of historical restoration while appropriating the language of antifascism to legitimize acts of conquest.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

25/ And it’s precisely the structure Putin seeks to resurrect.
To uphold Soviet symbolism while condemning Russian imperialism is like mourning the British Empire’s fall while claiming to oppose colonialism. The two are not separable.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

24/ But they’re cherry-picking aesthetics from an empire built on deportation, Russification, and political terror. One cannot romanticize the Soviet Union without romanticizing the power structure that suppressed nations from the Baltic to Central Asia.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

23/ Writers, academics, and activists who share memes of Soviet culture or factory murals, who praise USSR urbanism or “socialist modernity,” or who shamelessly use Soviet symbols from the comfort of their western homes often insist that such appreciation has nothing to do with Russian aggression.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

22/ That same logic now shelters Putin’s Russia under the illusion of “anti-imperialist multipolarity.”

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

21/ Factions of the Western left continue to excuse or romanticize the Soviet Union, framing it as a counterweight to Western imperialism or neoliberal capitalism. In this narrative, the USSR is remembered as a noble experiment, its crimes downplayed as unfortunate “mistakes” or denied entirely.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

20/ The Kremlin’s annual “Immortal Regiment” marches, ostensibly commemorations of WWII, have become rituals of militarized state identity by blurring past and present, implying that to fight in Ukraine is to finish the Great Patriotic War.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

19/ In occupied territories, Soviet monuments destroyed during Ukraine’s post-USSR era of independence have been rebuilt, while Ukrainian memorials are erased. School curricula reintroduce Soviet-era “patriotic education.” Streets revert to their Soviet names. This is not simple innocent nostalgia.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

18/ Russian soldiers film themselves raising the Soviet banner atop ruins, attempting to echo the 1945 photograph of the Red Army over the Reichstag in a deliberate recreation meant to frame invasion as liberation.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

17/ Hammer and sickle flags have been raised in occupied territories where people are forced to adopt a Russian passport or face torture, deportation, or death.

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16/ Soviet imagery has re-emerged as a core element of Russia’s military and ideological apparatus. You can find it on tanks and on the uniforms of soldiers committing war crimes.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

15/ In June 2025, he repeated this sentiment at an economic forum in Saint Petersburg, saying, “I’ve said it before, Russians and Ukrainians are one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours. There’s an old rule that wherever a Russian soldier sets foot, that’s ours.”

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

14/ When he declared in February 2022 that Ukraine is “not just a neighboring country for us, but an inalienable part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space,” he was restating an old colonial principle: that the empire never truly ends where its armies once stood.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

13/ By invoking the Soviet Union’s internal borders and “gifts” to Ukraine (notably Crimea, according to Russia), Putin collapses imperial and Soviet histories into a single continuum of rightful Russian domination.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

12/ It simply echoes 19th-century imperial discourse, when Tsarist officials referred to Ukrainians as “Little Russians” and denied the existence of a separate Ukrainian language or culture.

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