Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine & De-Communization Efforts

With an ever-expanding NATO and a Russia poised to solidify its position in a world increasingly defined by multipolarity, the working class has suffered at the hands of competing capitalist interests.

Following Russia’s recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), the declaration of a so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine occurred. Russian troops invaded from the Donbas in the east and Belarus in the north of the country on February 24, 2022. Contrary to the barrage of reports by mainstream news outlets, many were under the impression that a full-scale invasion was extremely improbable, myself included.

A photo of the signing documentation concerning the recognition of the DPR & LPR. (Wikimedia Commons)

Russian President Vladimir Putin, on claims of bringing about the “denazification of Ukraine”, accelerated military conflict in the country by extending it to all other regions. Over the last eight years, the war had primarily been limited to the Donbas which originally came about via the overthrow of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the subsequent declaration of independence by the DPR and LPR back in 2014. While that portion of the war was very much brought upon and continued by the conjoined imperialist and geopolitical…