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    Die vom Kreml besetzte Ukraine ist jetzt eine totalitäre Hölle


    Die vom Kreml besetzte Ukraine ist jetzt eine totalitäre Hölle

    https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/11/10/kremlin-occupied-ukraine-is-now-a-totalitarian-hell

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    1. AlexandrTheTolerable on

      Snippets from [the article](https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/11/10/kremlin-occupied-ukraine-is-now-a-totalitarian-hell):

      Donald Trump’s incoming administration may push for an [armistice or peace deal](https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/11/07/why-volodymyr-zelensky-may-welcome-donald-trumps-victory) between Russia and Ukraine. That might leave a fifth of Ukraine under Russian occupation, and the size of this area could easily expand in the coming months if the Kremlin intensifies its offensive, which has been gaining ground. To get a sense of Vladmir Putin’s dark vision for any territory he permanently gains, it is worth looking at conditions in occupied Ukraine now.

      “Kiril”, a Ukrainian agent in occupied territory reached by phone, says that “this is a prison society” because the fear of being denounced forces everyone to keep their views to themselves. To be without a Russian passport these days is “like being a refugee in your own land”. Important jobs are almost all held by Russians. Anyone with pro-Ukrainian views fears being sent “to the basement”, an expression for Russia’s network of detention and “filtration” camps.

      All traces of Ukraine are being expunged. Schools have switched to the Russian curriculum, and Russian youth and paramilitary organisations work in the territories. Repression combined with Russification aims to transform the social and political fabric of the territories, says Nikolay Petrov, the author of a new report for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

      The identity of the occupied territories is changing, fast. Some residents have always been pro-Russian. Now oppression, brainwashing and an exodus means that the balance has shifted further. Some 5-30% of residents in the occupied Zaporizhia and Kherson regions are pro-Russian, 20-35% are pro-Ukrainian while the rest, possibly more than half, “have a wait-and-see” attitude, according to the NRC. “That is why,” says Mr Petrov, “we should not believe in the idea that they are all … waiting for liberators to come and free them.”

    2. sercommander on

      Crimean russians can tell much about how good it is for them – “twice traitors” they were called on russian national tv

    3. AvatarADEL on

      Who wouldn’t want to live in a country where life expectancy for men is in the 50s. 

    6. coconutpiecrust on

      I just can’t even. Is that poster of an anime girl that gives direction to a canteen named USSR???

    7. Tooterfish42 on

      And nobody seems to speak up about the Tatars. I saw a certain super popular twitch streamer bring them being displaced up and casually move on

      Crimea is impossible to unfuck by now. A million Russians just moved in at once and went right into people’s homes and established businesses and literally said “this is mine now”

    9. TemporalCash531 on

      Like one needed to use imagination to see this coming. Look at what the soviets did in Kaliningrad after 1945.

      What Russia is doing in Ukraine is proper colonialism in the 21st century, and by how international relations work in the post WW2 landscape, things are bound to stay how they are and those lands lost to that black hole that is Russia.

    12. axismundi00 on

      Just like the rest Russia, and there are enough people genuinely supporting it.

      Basically yet another “in other news, water still wet” article.

    14. BIT-NETRaptor on

      Call me a nasty cynic but Russias’s absolute demolition of every city belies the idea that they were there to “protect Russian speakers”

      Trump is about to hand over for free what they really wanted: to disrupt Ukrainian oil extraction and pipelines, and claim the coast of the black Sea for the offshore oil there. Trump is a simpleton and easily exploited, he’s utterly unaware of any greater context or value to the land that was invaded. Russia conquering this land is very bad for global oil markets. I say this if you so totally selfish you need a self-serving reason to support Ukraines’s sovereignty.

      In Trump’s simple brain he “just wants the war to stop.” Not realizing that he’s outright legitimized that if a country wants something all they have to do is make Donald a little uncomfortable and he’ll roll over for free.

    15. Glavurdan on

      Russian World – Alternative to EU everyone should aspire towards

      – According to Putin

    19. kaisadilla_ on

      I mean, what do you expect? Imagine if it was a free country:

      “Hello fellow ex-Ukrainians. Welcome to your new Russian homeland. Do you have any ideas?”

      “Yes, we’d like to be part of Ukraine again please?”

      “Oh dammit, this whole invasion was pointless.”

    21. Eastcoastpal on

      I think as a middle finger to Trump for what he did with the withdrawal of Afghanistan and leaving Biden with a mess, I think Biden should turn around and give Ukraine unrestricted military missile usage as payback to Trump.

    22. joe_broke on

      Even reading it in my head I have to slow down “totalitarian” to get it right

    25. DonateSkullForKhorne on

      It’s almost like everything russians touch turns to shit. Who would have guessed

    27. CatboyInAMaidOutfit on

      And silly me, I thought it was going to be a democratic paradise. Because I’m fucking stupid.

    28. Crafty-Photograph-18 on

      As a Ukrainian, it is heart-warming to see all the support in the comments. However, the harsh reality is such that words will not help Ukraine with everything. I know I’m just an internet stranger to you, but I feel like I should remind people that you can always donate directly to the Ukrainian cause. Be it for military equipment or, if you’re not comfortable with that, which is totally understandable, to repair and help the victims of the war. Any amount of extra money provided to Ukraine will be helpful. If you don’t know where to donate, I can suggest the “Serhiy Prytula Charity Fundation” that works from the USA.

      From their website:

      Serhiy Prytula Humanitarian Foundation, an independent legal entity, serves as a supportive arm for communities, providing them with the necessary assistance to restore a decent life in the deoccupied and frontline areas with 5 projects in healthcare, reconstruction and equipping of protective shelters (Safe&Smart), temporary modular housing (NEST), humanitarian demining and crisis emergency response.

      Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation is one of the biggest charities in Ukraine. The Foundation has raised 181 million dollars since February 24, 2022 as of July 31, 2024. The Foundation has two divisions: military and humanitarian. The Military division provides Defense Forces with non-lethal aid, restores and modernizes the existing equipment with optics, and communications, and educates medics, civilians, and defenders.

      About Serhiy Prytula
      Serhiy Prytula is a Ukrainian volunteer and public intellectual known as a famous Ukrainian TV and radio host, entertainer with 17 years on the national screen, and founder of the Serhiy Prytula Foundation. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 as a volunteer, Mr. Prytula began to deliver supplies for the Ukrainian military and implement projects in the field of post-conflict recovery and development.
      The Foundation he started in 2020 to fight coronavirus was initially supporting humanitarian inclusivity and educational projects. In February 2022 as a response to the russian all-out invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Prytula scaled up his army supply efforts and gathered a team of over 100 people to respond to the challenges of war and help the military and civilians affected by the russian aggression.

      Here’s the link https://prytulafoundation.us/

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