LMBO, no no they're not. They were already free, until the empire engineered a coup in 2014 to overthrow their elected government and install a genocidal nazi regime. Russia is currently fighting to liberate ethnic Russians from the oppressive vassal state but also the Ukrainian people at large

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is there a good source you could provide so I could throw it at libs?

Edit: https://jacobin.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea

I really thought it'd be more buried

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 days ago

How can people downvote literal history facts? Even when this coup was correctly covered by NATO states back then as a fascist one. People forgot apparently