A photo I took in the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, which had just been liberated by Russian/DPR forces, last May

The graves of 20 Ukrainian Red Army soldiers who died charging at a Nazi position were discovered a few years prior, but the Kiev government REFUSED to give them burials

I was honored to be at this ceremony, which finally provided that for these men

Don’t let these psychopaths fool you about who fought for what

Western Europe and its appendages (yes this means the US) are the greatest enemies humanity has ever known
The next day, this 97 year-old Ukrainian man who STORMED BERLIN received an honor from Putin’s office directly

I was the only western journalist present

He spoke to us about the new rise of Fascism, and the importance of maintaining brotherhood and internationalism, as it had been before

I will translate and subtitle that speech of his really fuckin soon
It’s overdue

“Russian oligarchs?” 🧵

In 1996, the KPRF (Communist party of Russian Federation) had a majority in the Duma (parliament) & their leader, Gennady Zyuganov, was poised to win the presidential election against Yeltsin. setting the stage for socialist restoration in Russia. Yeltsin’s short period as DC-installed figurehead was deteriorating, as GDP had dropped tremendously, the USSR dissolved, crime and inflation off the charts, and a disastrous war was ongoing in Chechnya.

Hi friends and comrades.

Yesterday, I took the final step in the largest material move I’ll ever make in life. I know a lot of folks think I should be private about it, but that’s not who I am, and it’s the opposite of why I made the choice that I made, so I’m addressing it now. I was born into the Cox family, which gave me a complex position of quasi-ownership, with limited to no say, in Cox Enterprises, the parent company of Cox Communications, Cox Media Group, Cox Automotive, & a number of smaller pieces.

I can’t tell you how many of these lunches and dinners I witnessed going down at my grandmother’s houses in Atlanta, France, New York

https://twitter.com/kamaufranklin/status/1636478835657981953

Like, it’s truly not a joke. Bourgeois politicians do little else but eat and drink at rich people’s houses. And bc my dad and I have the same name, I get personal phone calls from big Dem candidates, themselves not their staffers, usually 4-5x a week.

Some of these western
"leftists," and those
their ideas have infected
in other parts of the
world, just want to rebel
against anything, all the
time. Imagine seeing the
world's most populous
nation eliminate poverty
and build a transnational
system of ubiquitous
high-speed rail, and
calling that nation
"reactionary," because
their police suppress
pro-colonialist counter-revolutionary brats, and they still have
some rich people