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Nestor Makhno considered himself a student of Kropotkin.
by shmerl 4y ago
Nestor Makhno considered himself a student of Kropotkin.
- culi 4y agoIf anyone's unaware: famous Ukrainian anti-anti-semitist/anarchist revolutionary who lead a peasant revolt that supported farmer communes in much of Ukraine before getting crushed by both the White and Red Army pro-russian tankies hate him
- 082349872349872 4y agofwiw, even Lyube has a song memorialising Makhno, Батька Махно, and I don't know if they're considered tankies, but they're definitely tankie-adjacent (they sang at the pro-"Z" concert at the start of the invasion, ffs). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRMfa6MSAaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRMfa6MSAaY
- shmerl 4y agoI suppose they aren't too bright then.
- pessimizer 4y agoPro-Soviet, not "pro-Russian."
- culi 4y agoI was specifically referring to the vein of tankies that are pro-Russia in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine (yes they exist)
- aebtebeten 4y agoThere may be less distance than we think. I'm not sure what's going on in https://youtu.be/LffLqUwlY2Y?t=200 https://youtu.be/LffLqUwlY2Y?t=200 , but would not be surprised if it's something to do with rehabilitating Stalin (of the eponymous tanks)?