A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #201 - SIDE NOTE (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Supporters of Ukraine justify their position by claiming to defend a 
state under attack, characterized by the institutions typical of a 
liberal state. The facts demonstrate that this is an unfounded 
ideological belief, unsupported by facts. The conflict in Ukraine dates 
back to the civil war that began with the events in Maidan Square in 
2014. Russian intervention in the conflict, dictated by geopolitical 
reasons, was carried out by a state governed by an oligarchic 
government, effectively very similar to the Ukrainian one, equally 
nationalist, repressive of freedoms and the rule of law, but not 
xenophobic, using the pretext of defending the Russian-speaking population.
We are against Putin's plan to create a rightward shift in Western 
countries, convinced of the failure of liberal democracies, as we have 
repeatedly explained in our contributions to the war in Ukraine.
We oppose the policies imposed by the British government on the peoples 
of Europe, as England has always sought to divide the peoples and 
nations of continental Europe and dominate them.
We are also resolutely opposed to the United States' policy of 
disrupting peaceful coexistence among European states, seeking their 
rearmament to capitalize on the profits destined to finance the economic 
and social crisis of the US empire by exploiting vassal states.
We believe it is essential and in the interests of the European peoples 
to resume economic relations with Russia and restore the supply of 
low-cost energy, which is essential to the competitiveness of the 
European economy. It is also in the interest of the less well-off to 
benefit from the welfare that only a solid economy can guarantee. We are 
aware of the enormous difficulties of achieving the social revolution 
capable of building a society of free and equal people.
We are disgusted by the prevalence in the Ukrainian government of crude, 
xenophobic and racist nationalism, contrary to freedom of thought, which 
has given proof of itself, when on 7 October last the Ukrainian 
Institute of National Remembrance (UINP), in application of the 
provisions contained in the law "" No 4579-IX of 21  2025 , No 
4579-IX[On the Principles of State Policy of the National Memory of the 
Ukrainian People], headed by Comrade Alexander Alferov, Director of the 
Institute, a self-styled "historian," public figure and military figure, 
television and radio host, former researcher at the Institute of the 
History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, head 
of the expert group on de-Russification in Kyiv, established by the Kyiv 
City State Administration, has decided to ban the works of Mikhail 
Bakunin. He boasts of being the author, co-author, and editor of over 15 
books and over 100 scientific articles, the main topics of which are the 
Cossacks, heraldry, and the modern history of Ukraine. This individual 
served in the Azov Regiment from 2014 to 2022. Since February 2022, he 
has been a member of the Azov-Kiev Special Police Corps, and since 
September 2022, he has been an officer in the 3rd Separate Assault 
Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and head of the Humanitarian 
Training and Information Support Group, as a reserve major.
In an effort to rewrite history, he banned the works of Mikhail Bakunin, 
claiming he supported Russian imperialism. This act of cultural 
decolonization is being implemented by this Nazi denier, in the name and 
on behalf of the government of the highly democratic Ukraine, a beacon 
of liberalism and Western values.
Now it is known to all that if there was an enemy of Russian imperialism 
and the tsars, it was Mikhail Bakunin, who endured prison and was 
relegated to Siberia like all opponents of the tsars and the Russian 
state. Accusing Bakunin of being a supporter of the Russian state is the 
most absurd and incomprehensible thing anyone could possibly make.
This ignorant Nazi and his acolytes, using Nazi methods, delight in 
expelling from libraries and burning books the regime dislikes. The 
peoples of Europe should deprive themselves of the welfare state they 
fought so hard to win, to support these criminal thieves who, profiting 
from the war, have amassed wealth, profiting from the arms supplies they 
received and the funding provided by the US and European governments. 
This has made Ukraine one of the most corrupt states in the world.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2025/11/01/nota-a-margine/
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