#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #BELARUS #UKRAINE #WAR #News #Journal #Update - (en) alas barricadas:Text of a Belarusian anarchist combatant in Ukraine (ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation]

 Good evening everyone except Putin's soldiers. ---- Yaugen Zhuráuski * ---- After

all the trips to clearly failed and dangerous actions, the flight from Belarus
and what I experienced during my 29 years, it was not so difficult to travel to
war-torn Ukraine, although it was terrifying. ---- It was not entirely clear
where I was going, what was waiting for me, if I would be allowed to cross the
border. I wasn't sure if I would reach my destination as my passport was drawing
attention at the checkpoints and there was also an attack by enemy planes. ----
As well as the fear that the first battle would also be the last. But the biggest
fear was disappointing my comrades-in-arms.

Despite all my fears, I had a strong desire to be at the center of events and to
participate in the fight against the dictatorial system itself that, in the fall
of 2020, expelled me from my home, imprisoned more than a thousand people,
including my friends and acquaintances, and my hometown became the base from
which Putin's bastards bombed kyiv and other cities.

I am convinced that the events taking place in Ukraine today are deciding the
fate not only of Ukraine itself, but of the whole of Europe.

European democracy is horrible, but what is much more horrible is what the
so-called "Russian world" is bringing from the East. The remnants of freedoms and
rights that the working class achieved in Europe, after a long struggle, will be
completely destroyed by the Russian dystopia, transforming everything around it
into a concentration camp, as they have already done in Belarus, Russia and, in
part, in Kazakhstan.

Mikhail Bakunin in his work "Federalism, Socialism and Antitheology" wrote the
following: "We are firmly convinced that the most imperfect republic is a
thousand times better than the most enlightened monarchy, because in a republic
there are times when the people, although eternally exploited , at least he is
not oppressed, whereas in monarchies he is constantly oppressed.

So today's Russia is this incredibly aggressive monarchy.

I often read that this is an imperialist war, although it is not clear what the
second empire is, and the anarchists cannot do anything there.

That the Nazis, who fight in any army, fight for the Ukraine. That the soldiers
on both sides must turn their weapons against the governments, etc., but I have
not yet heard that this also happens on the side of the "liberators" troops.

And there are many other criticisms, some of which I can even agree with, but the
problem is that staying out and taking a correct class position means becoming a
silent witness to the bombing of kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernigov and Mariupol. And my
conscience does not allow me to stay on the sidelines.

That is why I am today in Ukraine, which will face all these difficulties and
finally free itself from the influence of Moscow, and with it Belarus will be
free, and hopefully after that, Russia itself will finally become a true
federation of nations free.

https://t.me/ekstremisby

*Belarussian anarchist, refugee in Poland, now volunteer fighter in Ukraine

https://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/48049
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