muscovy: Minus one
The situation for freedom and democracy in the occupied areas of Ukraina are the worst of the worst according to Freedom House.
This is a longer English version of my letter which was published in Västerbottenskuriren 5 March, Sydöstran 6 March, in Kristianstadsbladet, Norra Skåne 7 March, and in Folkbladet 8 March.
When Kim III of the Undemocratic People's Monarchy of North Korea sends slaves to help Russian soldiers rape Ukrainian women, Trump pauses US arms’ aid to Ukraine.
The US is pressuring Ukraine to agree to the fascist dictatorship of Russia's terms for peace. These include occupation of areas that are not currently occupied by the Kremlin.
Such barbarity as the kremlin’s troops’ abuses against Ukrainan civilians in these areas has not been witnessed since the Nazis ravaged Ukraine during World War II. United Nations’ 41st periodic report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine detailed abuses by the fascist occupying “authorities” which include rape, executions, torture and murder.
Freedom House recently published the report Freedom in the World. In it, freedom and democracy in the world's countries and certain territories are assessed on a scale between zero and one hundred, where zero is a total lack of freedom and human rights.
Source: Freedom House
The fascist dictatorship's abuses of Ukrainians are so disgusting that Freedom House is forced to abandon the normal scale to describe the situation quantitatively. Freedom House assigns the value minus one to show how abysmal the Russian fascist regime's oppression is. It is worse than in North Korea.
Rapes, unspeakable torture, castrations and murder, occur daily. The occupying fascists carry out a brutal muscovification of the territories. This means for example that old and sick Ukrainians are forced to adopt muscoy citizenship in order to gain access to healthcare and social care in case that exists.
It also means that Ukrainian men are forced into the occupation army as cannon fodder against their fellow countrymen. Ukrainian children are forced to abandon their language and are brainwashed into becoming Russians. Ukrainian monuments, memorials and cultural expressions are destroyed.
But the Ukrainians do not give up. Most of the fascists’ losses are due to Ukrainian drones. Ukraine is a leader in the drone war, which is gaining increasing importance. The Ukrainians are showing that the fight against a larger enemy can be fought with the innovation of less resource-intensive and cheaper weapons. We can help.
Support the organizations that contribute to Ukraine’s fight for freedom! If each of us donates a hundred bucks now and then, we will help Ukrainian women from being raped and children from being abducted.
Drones to Ukraine is one of many organisations through which you can help Ukraine against the fascists.