No, it absolutely is not “what it is”.

This is definitely a problem that can and must be fixed.

There is a fascism problem inside free Ukraine, indeed. It’s been there since around year 2005 in an increasing strength until year 2014 when it started decreasing, albeit sadly slowly.

It has never reached the levels it has in the Russia, but it was nevertheless very visible when I lived there in 2015 and 2016.
Putin’s project of funding fascism in the Russia and in all countries under Russian influence, that he started around year 2005, is horrible indeed! I can understand how the organizations were useful for doing his dirty work for him, but it’s horrendous that he chose to take that way.

Of course the fascist organizations in Ukraine lost almost all of their funding when they started fighting against the Russia, but it still takes time for all that to diminish away.

Also, just like you told, it is a success story how Ukraine managed to dilute the right-wing extremism from the nazi troops that saved its ass in 2014. Until around year 2018 there was a big risk of a fascist revolution, because in 2014 the Ukrainian military was nothing but a joke. It was only a tool for the highest officers to get free workforce for building dachas. And a horrible place to serve, causing deaths of servicemen. Basically the same thing as Belarusian military is now in 2026.

And at the same time, the nazi organizations got seriously good in fighting starting from 2014. Ukraine basically didn’t have an army at all and the nazis were really interested in doing a coup. Ukraine successfully defused the situation by slowly integrating those organizations in its official military forces. The leadership was forbidden from being openly nazi and an increasing amount of soldiers were without any nazi connections whatsoever.

It is very clear that the leadership of the Azov battalion are still okay with fascism, but they are not able to effectively push for it any longer. And once the war, after all these 12 years, is at last at its end, it can be at last disbanded. Currently they are still the most skilled army unit in Ukraine and without them, Ukraine would risk losing the war to the fascist country. If that happened, the funding of nazi organizations in Ukraine would return and we’d see a nazi problem far bigger than currently – most likely it would reach the same levels as currently on Crimea and Donbas, which are the only parts of Ukraine where far-right violence didn’t start getting less common in 2014, but instead increased a lot.

The current situation is weird, because Azov battalion, military unit still led by actual fascists, is keeping Ukraine securely on an anti-fascist path. If they disappear, nazism will become much more commonplace in Ukraine.

If you support the Russia in this war, you are a fascist.

It’s obvious that Ukraine’s nazi problem must be solved. I don’t know if it makes sense to call it “sweeping under the rug”, though. More like “push back within the problem’s own borders” would feel like a better wording :)

Yeah, I know that’s possible. But I really don’t have any need to. I’m not going to bother something like that in order to read rt. I speak Russian well enough that I can read the same news in Russian if I really want to become more stupid.

RT’s “bias” is that it exists in order to intentionally spread lies.

And also, I was talkung about the website, not a television channel. In Finland, not in France. It’s indeed the way around that the Russian sites block Finnish IP addresses, not the other way around.

If it was EU blocking RT’s site, you would be unable to access it from anywhere in EU, not only from the country least willing to censor Internet in all.of EU. Rt.com works just fine from Germany and France, because there people know less about the Russia and the stories are believed by many enough people.

In Finland rt.com would just scare Finns into disliking the Russia even more. It’s not in the interests of Moscow to let us browse it.

Those are headlines of news articles that have been written by various “news” sites.

I cannot find the first one anywhere, but the second one, titled “Zelensky seeking to ‘punish’ Slovakia for peace aspirations – Fico”, is an article on rt.com . RT.com has banned all of Finland from reading its site because in Finland basically everyone would catch its lies, so I cannot read the actual article; I merely found a link to it on a site that has not banned Finns.

But, using rt.com as a source tells enough anyway.

Many of the issues raised in the text are solved in PieFed.

A very nice thing about the Forumverse is that our refugees can perfectly well be internal. If there is a reason to escape, it is your instance you’re escaping, not the whole network! This feels like a very promising feature :)

This is Reddit blocking Feddit.uk from requesting the page title, though. “maam”, a user of feddit.uk, wrote the link there, and feddit.uk then opened the page behind the link, in order to get the title of the page. The title provided by old.reddit.com was “Blocked”, and that’s what feddit.uk wrote there.

So, neither feddit.uk nor lemmy.dbzer0.com are blocking Reddit. To some extent a block seems to exist in the opposite direction already, though!

Looks like a cool place! A pity it’s gone. They apparently opened once I was already gone from the town, which explains why I couldn’t find out which one of the shops I used to frequent had now disappeared :)

Thanks for the answer!

Wait, which shop was it, then? I used to live in Berlin and bought board games here and there. At least Spielwiese still seems to exist, which is the most important thing, but which of the other lovely shops is now gone?

The level of faking in all reports inside the Russia’s governmental apparatus is astonishing, though.

I cannot understand how they could avoid that regarding their nuclear weapons program when the faked reports are such an integral part of their system of governance.
If you don’t fake reports, you get fired by Putin for being inconsistent with the other aides.

The bribery of Ukrainian officials was the most important among Putin’s military projects, and Putin failed to recognize that even that project’s documents were all faked. Whoever has faked any documents regarding the nuclear program has received a lot of respect from Putin, and given more influence in the program. Since 1999, Putin has been hand-picking people who fake reports and replaced others with them.

The more important the project, the more Putin influences who is allowed to take part in it. And Putin has managed to fuck up his things big time by trusting fakers extremely strongly and assuming the others are giving diverging data because of disloyalty.
If something in the Russia is going haywire, then a project important to Putin, such as the nuclear weapons program is.

…which is why you sometimes see “Toni Virtanen”, " Mika Valtari", etc.

I’ve met two Wilmas and both of them get their names written as Vilma.

People k ow that W is deprecated and V is used now instead, and then when they hear that sound, they write a “V”. Just like you said.

Also, try reciting the alphabet. It ends “oo, pee, kuu, är, äs, tee, uu, vee, äks, yy, zeta, oo, ää, öö”, right? Where is “kaksoisvee”?

Yeah, it should have caused that debacle before they elected to let go of all the concessions they had.

But yeah, I think a lot of EU countries would revolt if UK was let in without having to join the Euro and Schengen. And yes, I believe this does indeed mean that UK is not going to rejoin within the next half a century at least. Also a reason it feels a bit stupid trying to integrate them into EU stuff – they’re going to prefer staying out anyhow (unleas they get concessions they won’t get) so why bother?

Of course, if they want to follow some EU rules, why not? And for each EU rule they proactively and reliably implement, they should of course receive the relevant goodies, just like Norway. But, at least I would not want the EU to spend our resources trying to pull UK into doing anything it’s not motivated enough to do out of its own accord.

How do you pronounce the name “Wille”? How about “Ville”?

Or that singers family name, Wirtanen? Not the same as Virtanen?

Or, in which way do you pronounce the word “wero”? The same as “vero”, or something different?

Can you give an example of a Finnish word with a “w” that is not pronounced the same as the Finnish “v”?

(Ja sori, tästä tekstistä tuli hyökkäävämpi kuin tarkoitin… Uudelleenkirjoittamiselle ei oikein ole aikaa, möh :( )

Yeah, it seems to have appeared again at some point. I’ll need to learn how to run it on Linux, but it apparently should be possible indeed! Or maybe I’ll find some place with a Windows computer to try it. Nice! :)

Oh, apparently Rockstar has made it playable again at some point. Nice! :)

Agreed, absolutely.

Well, okay, but the main point of why it’s a problem being mentioned in the files is that it means you are, at least to some extent, a supporter of sexual violence. And probably even paedophilia.

What I understand the post is trying to say is that these guys were all doing the same kind of horrible shit. It’s trying to hint that USA might have been rotten to the core right from the beginning.