The winds go round, the bee goes faster.

It's my favorite tune on the Soviet or Blaster.

And everyone here... to bless the. Hello folks and welcome to the Antifada.

I'm Sean and I'm here with Andy and we have a very very special guest today a guest that we've been working to get on the

podcast for at least a year or so but who has been very busy because he's a Marxist analyst

and a Ukrainian who's been doing a lot of work speaking with all sorts of

international groups who are trying to analyze and understand the conflict

that's happening over there, its recent history and its deep history. So with that I'd like to welcome to the show of Valotameer

Aishenko. Welcome. Yeah, thank you for having me here. We are in a spot right now where there's a lot of rhetoric there's a lot of good analysis

there's a lot of bad analysis coming out about not just Ukraine and Russia but the

broader post-Soviet sphere and you've been spending two years as I said in high

demand under kind of explaining the nuts and bolts of the last of the history of the

last couple of years to the last 30 years last 100 years So this conversation that we're going to have today,

we'd like to be a little bit more advanced

and a little bit more in-depth on important issues like what's the role of the

international left vis-à-vis the Ukrainian left and the Russian left in the

course of this conflict what might a reconstruction look like that we could

internationally play a pardon.

All sorts of analytical questions about the political economy of the region

and how it isn't quite so alien from say our

political economy in the quote unquote West as we might imagine it. In order to

kick-start that conversation I found a couple of really great paragraphs from a recent article of yours about the left in a article called the Russian invasion and the left in Ukraine and beyond.

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