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The year 2025 marks 3 years since the beginning of the war in Ukraine - the imperialist, invasive war of Russian imperialism. More than a million people have already died in this predatory war. Every day, once peaceful cities and towns are being shelled. And all this has been going on for 3 years - 3 years of killing, death and destruction. The settlements "liberated" by Putin's army are essentially ceasing to exist - they are turning to rubble. Even Mariupol, which has been untouched by the war for 3 years, is still largely destroyed. And the recently "liberated" Dzerzhinsk has been wiped off the face of the earth. Is this "liberation"? Naturally, we condemn the criminal actions of both Ukrainian and Russian fascists. What are the reasons for this conflict? What is its essence? How can it be ended so that it never happens again, so that young, healthy people never die again? Despite the tantalizing talk of "negotiations" in 2025, neither Western imperialism nor Eastern imperialism truly answers this and other questions.
The Comintern (SH) has never entertained false hopes with respect to either side. In this war it supports neither the bourgeois government of Ukraine, as some "anti-war activists" do, nor Russian imperialism, as many Russian "communists" do (chauvinists in deed!). From the very beginning, the Comintern (SH) has supported both the Ukrainian people in their struggle for their freedom against national oppression and bourgeois exploitation by Western and Eastern imperialism, and all the victims of this war. The Comintern (SH) represents the class interests of both the Ukrainian proletariat and the Russian proletariat, for they have the same interests.
Russian imperialism has invaded Ukraine not for the purpose of "defense of Russian speakers" or any other purpose. No. This war is an inevitable clash of interests of Western and Eastern imperialism, which has grown into a global confrontation for the redistribution of spheres of influence, resources, markets, in fact, to the scale of World War III. This is a war of Western and Eastern imperialism with each other and Ukraine has become their battlefield, and the Ukrainian and Russian peoples are a bargaining chip for someone else's interests. This is the essence of the Ukrainian war. At the same time, the CPRF declares this war as a "national liberation war of the Russian people", thus throwing the Russian people into this terrible meat grinder and betraying the Russian proletariat!
One must not forget about the enormous role of propaganda and the benefits it gives to the bourgeoisie of Russia and Ukraine. After the start of this predatory war, all the propaganda of both fascist states became even stronger and more chauvinistic. This real dirt has the character of nationalistic hysteria and tries to impose hatred towards each other on Russian and Ukrainian workers. Ukrainian propagandists (sometimes even in Russian) openly insult the entire Russian people (for example, calling them "horde" and "Asians"), all Russian history and culture. Russian defenders hysterically declare that "before 1922 the Ukrainian people did not exist at all" and that "Ukraine was created by Lenin". This is logical, because both in Ukraine and in Russia, pro-government propagandists-bloggers and the Mass Media are trying to justify the terrible policies of their patron states and are trying to give this war a "popular" character. The authorities actively pay them for any lie that benefits them. Nevertheless, this dirty propaganda has reached its madness and is creeping into literally all aspects of life: museums, cinema, theater, and especially education. For example, there are fragments from a Ukrainian children's channel on the Internet, where abundant Russophobia was presented in the form of a song. New changes have appeared in Russian schools since September 2022 - at the beginning of each week, students are required to sing the anthem and raise the Russian flag, the first lesson of each Monday is "Conversations about the Important" - lessons supposedly designed to "restore love and respect for their homeland and cultural values", but in fact they promote the policies of Putin's Russia and talk about the world, culture and history from an openly revisionist (historical revisionism) and fascist point of view. Also, war "heroes" often come to schools, who, paid in advance with money, talk about their "exploits" and the need to fight for their bourgeois "fatherland" (the so-called lessons of courage) and take real "dictations" where students write letters and good wishes to soldiers. Many teachers protested against such events, but most often they were fired or punished, and seasoned propagandists were put in their place.
