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"In our opinion, the war has highlighted how much anarchists are products of their own local capitalist and geopolitical environment. …
How many collectives in the West, understanding that they didn’t want to support the armed participation in the war, tried to negotiate with the Ukrainian comrades about how else that cooperation could look, if not buying helmets?
The same can be said about the reaction of the Russian movement, which basically remained silent about the war, which started in 2014, and was cautious about trying to build connections with their Ukrainian comrades. …
We can see how in countries like Germany, where there is no clear division between anarchists and communists, the 'general left' repeats the old Soviet and now Russian myths of 'the West against Russia' and 'capitalists against socialists'. … In most Southern European countries, this discourse is clearly connected to the 'reds' propaganda, but is hailed by the anarchist movement, just because it’s convenient.
This war will leave a big schism in the movement for a longer time. The anarchist East stopped blindly taking for granted what is said or done by some of the Western comrades."
–– Belarusian Anarchists in Warsaw