The Worker's Front of Ukraine (ML) on the Russian-Ukraine War

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Breht is joined by members of the Workers' Front of Ukraine - a Marxist-Leninist organization based in Ukraine. We discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, the impact of the war on Ukrainians, the Maidan Coup of 2014, the size and role of fascist and neo-nazi groups in Ukraine, Zelenskyy and Putin, the economic incentives behind the war, and much more!

Learn more about the Worker's Front here: https://www.nowarleft.com/wfu

Here is their telegram channel: https://t.me/RFU_media

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TRUFEN OLEH, Ukraine

Outro music: "Catastrophe and the Cure" by Explosions in the Sky

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.
0:08.7	On today's episode I have on some comrades from Ukraine, more specifically from Ukraine's
0:14.8	worker front, an organization, a communist organization founded in 2020.
0:20.7	In this conversation of course my guests don't speak English and I don't speak Ukrainian,
0:25.3	but we do have a translator, the wonderful Katya.
0:28.2	She'll be translating throughout and it will be overlaid over their answers.
0:31.8	You'll hear them quietly speaking in Ukrainian while her translation is laid over that
0:38.1	and increased in sound so you can hear it.
0:40.5	Really fascinating to get insight from communists in Ukraine on the conflict on the war
0:47.1	and help dispel some myths and lies and just some fairy tales that people in the West
0:53.3	are force fed about what's actually happening and what the actual dynamics are.
0:57.2	I'm deeply grateful for the comrades from Ukraine's worker front coming on and having this
1:02.1	conversation with me.
1:03.6	I also want to mention they did an interview as well with Prolecolt.
1:07.2	I don't know if you say Prolecolt or Prolecolt but they're a great outlet.
1:12.1	They're on YouTube, they're on Twitter.
1:13.9	I will link to their episode with the same comrades as well if you want to hear more content,
1:20.0	more interview with them.
1:22.2	It'll be in the show notes.
1:24.6	I really just wanted to double down in my appreciation of our translator here.
1:28.4	This conversation would be impossible without Katya so thank you so much for making this
1:32.8	interview happen and for translating it.
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