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The Belarusian Fighters
The Atlantic ^ | September 7, 2022 | Anne Applebaum

Posted on 09/07/2022 5:27:11 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin

[G]athered in a basement on a quiet, tree-lined street, the Belarusians preparing to leave Warsaw to join the Ukrainian army look more like a bunch of computer programmers getting ready for a long car trip. Maybe that’s because they are a bunch of computer programmers—or anyway, some of them are—gathered in a basement on a quiet, tree-lined street, getting ready for a long car trip...If they are identified, members of their families could be visited, harassed, even arrested by the Belarusian police. “Our relatives are hostages,” one of them told me. Already, mothers of Belarusian soldiers fighting in Ukraine have been forced to make public statements denouncing their children.

{T]hey are young, in their 20s and 30s, and that they are on their way to join the Kastus Kalinouski Regiment, a military unit founded in March as a part of the Ukrainian army but with a separate, Belarusian status. [A]ppearances to the contrary, they and their leaders are thoroughly grounded in the international history of armed rebellion. They know their 19th-century antecedents: Kastus Kalinouski fought in the failed 1863 uprising against the Russian occupation of what was then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They know their 20th-century antecedents too, among them not just Orwell in Spain but Józef Piłsudski, a Polish general who fought with the Austrian army in 1914 because he hoped, eventually, to liberate Poland. Although Kalinouski was executed and Orwell’s cause ultimately failed, Piłsudski marched his Polish Legions into Warsaw. By 1918, he was the leader of independent Poland. The men in the basement are going to Ukraine both because they are, like Orwell in Spain, sympathizers with another country’s democratic cause, and because they hope, like Piłsudski in Poland, to eventually liberate Belarus from the dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for nearly three decades.

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To: Krosan

I’m not a Putista, I believe in America first which means the Ukraine doesn’t mean a 5hit to me and I have to burst the bubbles of the fans of Forever War.


21 posted on 09/07/2022 6:38:03 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Krosan
Meanwhile Putinistas here post articles from the Communist Party USA and the Communist Party of Great Britain.

BS. Nobody’s posting Communist Party crap, except those parroting the mockingbird media. Let’s talk about how our great grandchildren are going to pay for Biden/Obama’s war, shall we?
22 posted on 09/07/2022 6:43:18 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: WMarshal

Must feel great knowing you have Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd, and Noam Chomsky on your side. Two notorious Jew-haters, who never found any cause too leftist or communist to not lend it their support. Both demanding that Ukraine roll over and accept enslavement by russia. Excellent fellow-travelers for you.


23 posted on 09/07/2022 6:44:35 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

You might not know it, but “Morning Star” is a paper of British communist party and “Working Families Gazette” (or something) is a paper of CPUSA.

Both of these are being posted and the first even frequently. I suspect because the audience doesn’t know Morning Star is communist.

Here is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) campaign page where they urge their supporters to contact their congresscritter and demand NO WEAPONS TO UKRAINE - https://international.dsausa.org/ukraine/

That’s who you’re siding with.


24 posted on 09/07/2022 6:53:17 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Krosan
No, I side with America and OUR need to defeat communism HERE!

(Note: I also don’t agree with fomenting Revolutions, overthrowing democracies, and starting nuclear wars.)
25 posted on 09/07/2022 7:16:12 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Krosan; All
The author Anne Applebaum is a pretty decent person.

Indeed...just last week Applebaum wrote a rousing defense of President Biden's Philadelphia speech. You should all read what else she has to say about Trump and the MAGA movement, not to mention Poland's Law and Justice Party

Biden Gambles That “We the People” Still Exist

26 posted on 09/07/2022 7:17:46 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: lump in the melting pot

How does it feel to support Obama, Biden, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and the NWO? Yes, I know…overthrowing democracies, passing LGBTQI LEGISLATION, and picking fights with nuclear powers is important, but can’t you at least own your allegiance to Obama?


27 posted on 09/07/2022 7:19:52 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: lump in the melting pot

How does it feel to support Obama, Biden, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and the NWO? Yes, I know…overthrowing democracies, passing LGBTQI LEGISLATION, and picking fights with nuclear powers is important, but can’t you at least own your allegiance to Obama?


28 posted on 09/07/2022 7:19:52 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Dr. Franklin

I clicked on what you said was the Atlantic link and it took me to MSM instead.

I wish you guys would quit promoting MSM.


29 posted on 09/07/2022 7:22:46 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12
I clicked on what you said was the Atlantic link and it took me to MSM instead.

Which says The Atlantic at the top, meaning the story came from there.
30 posted on 09/07/2022 7:43:56 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

The link should take us to the source, yahoo and MSM are getting every click we make, not to mention we don’t actually visit the actual publication that we were looking for.


31 posted on 09/07/2022 8:00:08 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Krosan

Applebaum wrote some good books on communism and the Soviet Union. Unfortunately she is otherwise a western liberal, and has also viciously attacked Polish nationalists from the Law and Justice (PiS) coalition. She is pro-EU in its pushing of cultural and social controls (including being pro-immigration).

But on the matter of Russia she is entirely on the same page as the Polish conservatives. Its interesting that the last election map shows that the closer to Russia the constituency, the more conservative (PiS) the vote. The Russian threat is the great uniter in Poland.


32 posted on 09/07/2022 10:51:11 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

I like Poland and I think both of the two big parties there are generally good. Only some smaller parties are scum or idiots there.


33 posted on 09/07/2022 11:13:58 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: marcusmaximus; Paul R.; Bruce Campbells Chin; PIF; familyop; MercyFlush; tet68; BeauBo; TalBlack; ..

The complete Ukraine ping!


34 posted on 09/07/2022 11:14:19 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: buwaya
Applebaum wrote some good books on communism and the Soviet Union. Unfortunately she is otherwise a western liberal, and has also viciously attacked Polish nationalists from the Law and Justice (PiS) coalition. She is pro-EU in its pushing of cultural and social controls (including being pro-immigration).

Many Jews have their roots in the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They went there because it was the most tolerant place in Europe in its day. Yet, they are extremely hostile to Polish nationalism, including Catholicism.
35 posted on 09/07/2022 11:17:02 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Jan_Sobieski
However, I’m certain the 10,000 communists will patiently listen to your objections and allay your fears. /s

This was directed at me, or was it intended for someone else?
36 posted on 09/07/2022 11:18:25 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: WMarshal
"I’m not a Putista"

😂 😂 😂😂 🤮

37 posted on 09/07/2022 11:49:04 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Many of them are more like computer operators, some with systems admin knowledge. They can operate drones, anti-tank weapons and a few other tasks.


38 posted on 09/07/2022 4:48:57 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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