This is from Victory of the Oppressed, 26 February, 2022
In the ongoing conflict, the
Russian Maoist Party (RMP) is taking a consistent anti-war and anti-imperialism
stance against warmongers on both sides (NATO/EU and Russia), against Russia's
imperialist aggression in Ukraine (the infamous " special military
operation" that even war is a forbidden name), against the civil war in
Ukraine (between Ukraine and Donbass) in the form of an "anti-terrorist
operation" (ATO). Our point of view was adopted after a democratic
discussion by a majority of all against one.
1. If the recognition of the
DPR and LPR (note VO: refer to
the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk)on
the part of the Russian
Federation was a true act of support for the
inhabitants of Donbass, it would have happened in 2014. But eight years of
silence and indifference, which the guards today accuse the opponents of the
war, took place precisely on the part of imperialism Russian, who needed the
war in Donbass as an asset to put pressure on Ukraine, which fell outside his
orbit of influence. The words about the alleged support for the “national
liberation movement” in eastern Ukraine
by the Russian government are just as false as the promises not to attack
neighboring states, not to raise the retirement age, etc. And the regime,
which has set itself the goal of destroying the right of nations to
self-determination and cherishes the dream of reviving the Russian Empire,
cannot, by definition, be a defender of the oppressed (by the way, what
about the recognition of Kosovo, Transnistria, Artsakh?). In reality, the
stronger the long-term bloodshed in Donbass, the more profitable it was for the
Putin regime to blame the neighbors and, instead of a peaceful settlement in
eastern Ukraine,
to prepare for a large-scale aggression. scale.
2. For eight years, the DPR and
the LPR, instead of true people's republics, became puppet formations with the
total domination of Russian capital with political space purged in the Russian
way, only in a more radical way, and the omnipotence of paramilitary
formations. Actually, this is how the Kremlin needs them, not as free
democratic states, but as "gray areas". And their
"reconnaissance" became part of a special operation to capture and
turn the whole of Ukraine
into something similar.
3. Apparently, the Kremlin
expects a blitzkrieg, which should culminate in the establishment of a puppet
regime in Kiev. This
"denazification" operation, however, will lead to a rise in
nationalist and anti-Russian sentiment in the occupied country and turn it into
a Yugoslavia
of the 1990s. Let us remember that NATO's invasion of Yugoslavia in
1999 was also "justified" by the need to overthrow the Milosevic
regime, which was bombing Kosovo. They even called it "humanitarian
intervention."
4. Western imperialism, with
its sanctions against the Russian Federation,
denies military assistance to Ukraine,
despite "political" support from Kiev, apparently fearing the nuclear status
of the aggressor and the unpredictable actions of Putin, if cornered by more
decisive actions and entry into open warfare. Most likely, US and
especially EU imperialism will adopt a wait-and-see attitude, forcing the
Kremlin, repressed by “soft” economic sanctions, to settle long-term on the
hydrocarbon trade issue. on your terms. It is possible that in the future
negotiations will begin in the spirit of «gasoline at our price in exchange for
Ukraine
with its administration». That is, Ukraine in this situation will once
again be a victim of collusion between the imperialists.
5. Those leftists who now
support Russian aggression are making a mistake. The same mistake of those
who in recent years rejoiced at the death of civilians in the Donbass, went
through the geopolitical meat grinder. It is possible that Putin and his
capitalist-bureaucratic regime, which has proclaimed itself the
"true" decommunizer of Ukraine, and if the current adventure is successful,
will dismantle the state and sovereignty not only in one country, but also try
to restore imperialist Russia. 2.0 in other “historic” territories. Given
this, it is obvious that Russian imperialism is interested not in
"denazification" but in the enslavement of peoples. How this
will look can be understood by looking at the situation of the working masses
in Russia, where the police, the normalization of torture, the dismantling
of remaining rights and freedoms, censorship, the actual destruction of the
autonomy of national republics, the imposition of clericalism, discriminatory
archaic values such
as the attack on feminism, the defeat of human rights movements, and the
systemic phobia of migrant, together with collusion with the extreme right, is
everyday life. . In
other words, believing that the Russian
Federation is actually "de-Nazizing" Ukraine is like
casting out the devil.
6. Today, the true communists
are those who constantly defend a democratic peace between Russia and Ukraine, and are not the echoes of
Kremlin imperialism. Building a mass anti-war movement should become one
of the main points of activity for all progressive and left forces to unite the
working and oppressed peoples of Russia and Ukraine in the struggle against
aggression, further dismantle the despotics and build a new world without wars,
capitalists and oppressors. And the social-chauvinist support of the
Kremlin in any form is a contribution to the impoverishment of the Russians,
because under the sanctions the oligarchs will wage war, which is expected to
harm the people,
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