They made russian illegal though? That’s what kicked off the civil war back in 2015 or so?
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
At least they still have the right to protest. There’s no protesting against compulsory Russian language education.
mathemachristian@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Classic tankie sleight-of-hand.
The ‘Ukraine banned Russian and that’s why Russia invaded’ line is straight Kremlin copium from 2014. The law was never even signed, and the war started because Moscow sent in the little green men, not because of language classes.
ClathrateG@hexbear.net 1 month ago
But post the Banderite and US Supported(theguardian.com/…/john-mccain-ukraine-protests-su…)coup government banned Russian in the school system(1/3 of Ukrainian’s are Russian first language speakers) and start streets renaming after Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera) and Azov and the other far-right group were killing civilians in the Donbass prior to Russia’s ‘little green men’ entering Ukraine
LovelyMover@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
This is rubbish. They couldn’t join NATO, russia had invaded them, as well as a bunch of other countries I might add. This special operation was to stop them joining the EU.
A failing dictatorship cannot have a neighbour have free elections, vote in who they want, & be economically prosperous. Thats the beginning, middle & end of it.
All this bs about nato this & nato that is a lie & you’re either a troll, delusional, or both.
Dictatorship needs an enemy to hide its failed corruption.
woodenghost@hexbear.net 1 month ago
They don’t though. They do not have any right to do this protest during school hours at all. They literally disobey orders and risk being kicked out of school for participating. Those brave children are being threatened and punished by principals, teachers, parents, politicians and the police. All of whom have abandoned them to be grinded into mush at the eastern front for a pointless war. And the children stand up for live and peace anyway against the coming of the fascist death cult. Read Karl Liebknecht.
sleen@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I agree, but they are not children. We shouldn’t be infantilising adolescents and young individuals. They are as capable as adults - and for that we should be aiding and supporting their motives. Don’t be ageist, be supportive.
woodenghost@hexbear.net 1 month ago
You’re right, maybe adolescents would have been a better word. “Child” can be meant as developmentally before puberty (which wouldn’t fit here), but in most English countries it also has a legal meaning of being under 18 (or 21) years old - that’s what I had in mind.
The participants of the protests are mostly underage and objectively lack the many privileges and rights of autonomy which our society awards older people. That they protest despite that is all the more impressive.