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 Two flagrant violations of democratic and political freedoms: firstly, the ban by the Zelensky government on political parties (from the centre to the left) that are collectively accused of being "Russophile"; secondly, the merciless racist pogrom of Russian or Russian-born citizens and the banning of cultural works (even the most classical ones that are an integral part of the world's cultural heritage) because they were created by Russian artists.

Our era is characterised by an unprecedented post-war intensification of inter-imperialist rivalries at global level. The US, China, the EU, Russia and other powers are competing on various fronts across the globe. One of these fronts is Ukraine, on the territory of which a relentless confrontation is taking place between the US-EU on the one hand and Russia on the other. The Ukrainian bourgeoisie itself is actively involved in this confrontation. It has long been divided into two rival camps that are clashing furiously in order to prevail. In this conflict they have used all dirty means: buying off and corrupting the political leadership, blackmailing and murdering opponents, exploiting and/or inciting uprisings, coups, arming fascist groups and organising fascist pogroms, banning political parties, exploiting separatist movements, attempts to join rival imperialist camps, civil wars, etc. Ukraine's elites are not conducting any kind of national liberation struggle and are in no sense fighting for Ukrainian independence. On the contrary, they are sacrificing the Ukrainian people and the independence of the country in order to win in this confrontation. The great victims of this conflict are the workers, the youth, the poor people of Ukraine: they have paid for it with impoverishment, the trampling of social and democratic - political freedoms, mass migration, thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of displaced persons.