Letter from Donbass

I haven’t written for a long time - my fingers have lost the grip of a pen, it seems that a sharp cold of weapons has entered them forever. Uniform, stucture, orders - my life now consists of this. And so, until they shoot, I write. Today - March 18, the Paris Commune Day, is my personal holiday.

I was born and raised in the Voroshilovgrad region. From 1961 to 1991, our city bore the glorious name of Kommunarsk (now Alchevsk, Lugansk region). Despite the renaming of the city "democrats", its former name remained unchanged for the railway station. And now the word "Kommunarsk" flaunts on the facade of the building of the local station, on all maps and atlases of the world. But the neighboring district center Perevalsk was called the Paris Commune since the 1920s. Until now, its indigenous people out of habit say: “Parkommune”. There was even a common trolleybus communication between our cities, sunk into oblivion after the collapse of the USSR.

Never in my life could I imagine that I, a boy, playing in the early 80s in a "war stick" on the shady streets of his native city, would have to fight for real.

Both my grandfathers - Grigory Martynovich and Peter Maximovitch - died the death of the brave on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Grandfather Gregory served in the 794th Regiment of the 232nd Sumy Streltsa Division. He died on October 12, 1943 on the Lutezhskiy bridgehead, with the liberation of Kiev. And today, orders are being sent from Kiev to bombard and bomb the Donbass, where the son and grandchildren of Grigory Martynovich live. Could I have been inactive in this case? Could I betray the memory and glory of their ancestors? So I became a militia - defending native Kommunarsk and the whole Donbass in arms.

"Izvarinsky", "Ilovaisky" and "Debaltsevsky" "boilers" in which Ukrainian invaders-neo-fascists "welded" continue the glory of Borodino and Stalingrad. And this means that the militia of modern Donbass with honor carry the battle banner of their ancestors - the banner of courage, bravery and loyalty to the military oath.

Only here is the trouble: Stalingrad was followed by a victory at the Kursk Bulge, and so on - until the capture of Berlin. Donbass militias, who had driven Ukrainian punishers into the "coppers", were not allowed to move on. Who and why will become clear with time, but already now one can say with certainty that the reason is in the same capitalism. The bourgeois understand perfectly well: the people who defeated fascism will not then tolerate them, the exploiters. The core of the force that will lead the peoples of the former USSR to fight capitalism may well melt out of the civil war in the Donbas. Hence - the bourgeois fear of the victories of the Donbas people's militia. And we, the communists of different nationalities, need to do everything so that the fear of these parasites should not be in vain.

Happy holiday of the first proletarian revolution, comrades!

"Kommunar" Donbass militia