First of all, I have no intention of taking or promoting any side here, because I’m not well informed enough about what has happened since 2022… however, before getting burned out of the internet somewhen by the end of the last decade, I used to follow a lot of anarchist collectives. I was on Riseup and Autistici mailing lists, and I remember reading a lot about everything that was happening in Ukraine directly from the anarchists there, the protests being led by openly fascist paramilitary groups like the C14, Svoboda, Tryzub, Pravy Sektor, the SNA that became the Azov Battalion, tons of pictures and videos documenting everything and everyone, even American Blackwater mercenaries operating in the country. These fascist groups clashing with socialists, setting fire to union buildings and shooting people trying to escape, and now it’s hard to even find references to these groups and their actions on the internet, like it was sanitized (not so long ago, I also had trouble finding some materials from antizionist rabbis I had read back in the mid-2000s, I actually just found accusations of them being antisemitic on main search engines, so I really believe there is a lot of fuckery going on to control information)… and I’m afraid if I start talking about Donetsk and Lugansk I might get accused of something, so never mind.

I’m mentioning it because it has been only a few months since I joined Lemmy, and I’ve seen some controversy about accusations of nazis in Ukrainian lines, like it’s tankie propaganda or that Dugin shit… but, uh, back when pro-EU factions took the government, the anarchists had documented the nazis very well… is there a generational gap of information here? How many people were following anarchist press (not the shit you’d find on Twitter, Tumblr, or whatever) back in 2014?

ps: I’m not here to discuss Russia.

edit: fixed some grammar mistakes I noticed, but I’m no native speaker.