Posted on 03/20/2022 12:57:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the banning of Ukraine’s main opposition party and ten others as part of an anti-Russian crackdown.
The Opposition Platform — For Life, Left Opposition, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialists, Union of Left Forces, Party of Shariy, Opposition Bloc, Ours, State, and Volodymyr Saldo Bloc have all been banned by decree amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine for at least “the period of the martial law.”
The foremost victim of the crackdown is the Opposition Platform — For Life, which as of the 2019 general election was the second most popular political party in Ukraine after Zelensky’s own Servant of the People party — named after the television show of the same name which starred Zelensky as an ordinary man who became President, shot to fame by a channel run by the controversial Ukrainian-Israeli oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky.
The ban was announced on Sunday, and will suspend the operation of the party, which earned 13 per cent of the national vote in 2020 and is most successful in areas of Ukraine with large ethnic Russian and Russian-speaking populations, along with the other, predominantly leftist-branded parties named in the decree.
“The activities of those politicians aimed at division or collusion will not succeed, but will receive a harsh response,” President Zelensky is reported as saying by Ukrajinska Pravda.
“Therefore, the National Security and Defence Council decided, given the full-scale war waged by Russia and the political ties that a number of political structures have with this state, to suspend any activities of a number of political parties during martial law,” the statement continued.
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The British Union of Fascists were interned during WWII and, apart from the Channel Islands, the Germans never set foot on British soil. Whereas Russian has been an occupying force in Ukraine since 2014.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Union_of_Fascists
I’m surprised the ban wasn’t instituted in 2014.
Globalist swine.
And where was Ukraine before 1989?
A little lying by omission there?
Looks like Zelensky has been studying under Justin Trudeau.
Must kill democracy in order to save it.
The opposition sound like our Communist Party.
Every country has one source of information. Anything else is dis-information. The new world order wants just one source of information worldwide.
but but, he is an acclaimed hero...../s
That’s pretty much what the Democrats and neocons have done here. One uni-party under 2 different names. Any dissent is immediately silenced. Think the 2020 might have been rigged? Then you go to the Jan. 6 gulag.
Globohomo Uber alles
So sad to see in these United States. Even sadder that when the “disinformation” is proven as truth (Biden laptop, Mueller report, lol the Smollett trial) the lie has been so ingrained that it no longer matters.
[And where was Ukraine before 1989?
A little lying by omission there?]
After the entry of the US as a combatant against Germany in WWII, the German American Bund, a political organization that supported German interests, was outlawed:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-american-bund
Any political party that supported Russian interests in Ukraine should have been outlawed in 2014, the year Russia invaded Ukraine. That it waited 8 years to do so is tardy in the extreme.
“American oligarchs”
I’ll back you on that if we can bundle in Warren Buffett.
The neocon darling, “Winston” Zelenskyy
You mean the democrat party, right?
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
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