this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
73 points (100.0% liked)

GenZhou

977 readers
35 users here now

GenZhou is GenZedong without the shitposts

See this GitHub page for a collection of sources about socialism, imperialism, and other relevant topics.

We have a Matrix homeserver and a Matrix space (shared with GenZedong). See this thread for more information.

Rules:

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml
ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml
73
Collecting sources for introductory post: NATO and the war in Ukraine (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzhou@lemmygrad.ml
32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The goal of this post is to collect a list of useful sources regarding NATO in general, as well as the context of the war in Ukraine, to be used to educate new leftists or anyone else who needs it.

If you comment, please include sources as well as a brief description of each source's contents. Ideally, use bourgeois sources that the average Western "left-leaning" liberal would consider trustworthy to highlight changes in reporting over the years.

This post will be gradually updated as new comments appear, and will then be pinned to this community. (This will probably take a while, but you can still direct people here to look at the sources in the comments.)

Post so far

2014 US-backed coup

Nazism in Ukraine

Government oppression of Russian-speaking population

Genocide in the Donbas

Additional sources:

Sources contributed by:

  • /u/davel@lemmygrad.ml
  • /u/itspostingtime@lemmygrad.ml

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

some useful sources I've collected

NATO expansion

In May 1990 speech Secretary General Manfred Wörner said “The very fact that we are ready not to deploy NATO troops beyond the territory of the Federal Republic gives the Soviet Union firm security guarantees.”

This shows 2 things:

  1. As we already knew NATO had told the Soviet Union although that it would not move further East than East Germany
  2. They understood full well that NATO moving East was seen as threatening by USSR given the promise not to do so was a “security guarantee” for them.

https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/1990/s900517a_e.htm

fascism

maidan coup

war crimes

negotiations

misc sources

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wow! Amazing work! Thank you for taking the time to put all of this together!

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago

I found an Odysee link in your comment. Here are links to the same location on an alternative frontend that protects your privacy:

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago

I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

Link 1:

Link 2:

Link 3:

Link 4:

Link 5: