Finnish interview: over here.

Update: I’m a fool, they have an English version, it is here.

English translation: over here on Riseup Share.

(For ease of reading, one can click “View in browser”, it should display as a plain text file.)

Summary: a Finnish-language anarchist website published an interview with Ksusha, a member in the Solidarity Collectives network in Ukraine.

I found the interview informative of the situation they have, and wanted to share. However, Finnish is as good as encryption to most people, so I translated it to English.

Since I think Lemmy does not support posting long texts in post summaries or comments, I uploaded the translation to RiseUp Share.

I hope authors forgive that I’ve not contacted them to ask for permission, because I don’t have their contacts, although eventually I must find a way to contact Solidarity Collectives on another matter. The interview in Finnish was also published in the magazine “Kapinatyöläinen” (“rebel worker”), issue 61.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    I remember some early reports about an anarchist “legion” that didn’t work out at all and this seems to confirm it. I can understand the reasons given and kudos to the people trying to stay in contact with those actively fighting and giving them extra support.

    I would have liked to hear something about support given to people dodging the quasi-forced draft, but I guess that is too sensitive of a topic to talk about in an interview.

    • perestroika@slrpnk.netOP
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      3 days ago

      Yes, it’s probably one of those things which people don’t sign with their name and photo - it might burn some bridges and close possibilities for people working under the same label.

      In general, it’s my impression that Ukrainian anarchists are materially supportive of like-minded soldiers and morally supportive of draft dodgers.