Suppression of some types of opposition in wartime has been a part of every war in human history, and the "small parties" aren't even a tenth of Ukraine's population, much less more than half.
Don't be such a damned liar when you know the truth. I posted above a link to a Ukranian reporter discussing the eleven parties. I'll post it again, but I expect the most abject apology and admission of the truth you can manage. The main opposition party which has had sustained influence, even holding majorities in the parliament and consequently holding the Presidency, with Russian alliance and support leads the list.
Here's the article, which I think is quite objective.
www.wilsoncenter.org
In contemporary Ukraine, political parties
rarely survive more than one electoral cycle. The
super-electoral year 2019 changed the party structure once again in Ukraine. A year later, there is already palpable interest on the part of the citizenry in new parties, as people have started losing trust in the current ones.
The second largest faction in the Rada and the largest opposition faction, Opposition Platform–For Life (OPFL), a surviving splinter of the Party of Regions, has forty-four seats.
Yuriy Boiko, a close associate of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, is the party's nominal chairman. However, the real leadership of the faction is shared with
Viktor Medvedchuk. Medvedchuk, who was the head of the presidential administration under Leonid Kuchma, today is the owner of growing media holdings and a public friend of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Despite the negative view of Russian aggression in Ukraine’s East and the annexation of Crimea, a considerable number of Ukrainian voters support the OPFL.
According to a
recent poll, the president would be reelected today by 37.6 percent of decided voters. His main rivals―Petro Poroshenko (16.2 percent), Yuriy Boiko (13.2 percent), and Yulia Tymoshenko (8.7 percent)―significantly lag as choices. The parties show a similar apportionment of support: Servant of the People is supported by 28 percent of decided voters, OPLF by 17.7 percent, Poroshenko’s European Solidarity by 16.2 percent, and Tymoshenko’s Fatherland by 8 percent. However, Zelensky saw his support slip by more than five percentage points just from April to June, and his party lost more than 4 percent.
Here is the list of parties Zelensky has banned:
Zelensky justified the ban on mostly left and anti-NATO parties in the country by claiming that they had alleged links with Russia, despite the fact that most of these parties have publicly opposed Russian intervention
peoplesdispatch.org
The 11 political parties banned include Opposition Platform for Life, which has 39 seats in the 450-seat Ukrainian parliament. Among the other parties banned are the Party of Sharity, Nashi (Ours) Party, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, Socialist parties. Several of these are left-wing parties and have been opposed to Ukrainian membership of NATO and the European Union (EU).
Opposition Platform for Life has a substantial base in the Russian speaking population in Ukraine’s east. It is led by Viktor Medvedchuk who has been charged with treason by the Ukrainian government. He was put under house arrest following the Russian attack. However, it is alleged by the Ukrainian government that he has escaped house arrest. The charge was denied by Medvedchuk’s lawyer.
Zelensky shut down three TV stations before the invasion, and had already embraced Fascist political elements who had been successful in fighting the Russians in the east. This was when Putin encouraged political refugees in the donbas to come to Russia.
To sum it up, Zelensky never got a majority vote in any election. He won in a parliamentary system with fluid small parties coming and going quite quickly. The Communist Parties have been banned for years. The pro-Russian party in power in 2014 was overthrown by a coup, not an election. Nazi groups largely funded from the West gained power. Zelensky came on the scene as a popular figure with hopes of reforming a grossly corrupt national situation. Most of that corruption has come from Western influencers competing in the field with Russian influencers. The Ukranian people have no voice, and that is the problem. too many cooks in the kitchen, too many fingers in the pot. The ordinary people are the ones who suffer.
Zelensky has sold out the Ukranian people and decimated what rights and hopes they had.
A non-military neutrality without either the EU or NATO or Russia is hard to sustain, but it is the goal.
No, it's not the US policy goal or the NATO goal. The Western goal is to take down Putin and get his oil off the market. So we can be one big happy fake socialist world run by our Honcho Fascists who pretend to be communists/'socialists like every good little college student. Probably Putin wanted Ukraine too. The Donbas and Crimea were Russian territories in recent history until Khruschev moved the border of Ukraine for internal reason of his own.
In all history there has never been a Ukraine that was not being overrun by somebody. It has been run over by everybody on every side. Everyone has left some genetics and some history and some culture there. The idea of keeping our obligations by treaty and diplomacy after the fall of the USSR was the best bet we ever had to do something good for Ukraine...... by staying the hell out and making sure Russia didn't dare go in.
Soros' allies and Western interests insinuated activists into this hell-hole divided people and started the damn war. 2014 is seen by many as the time they gained a foothold, but the issue has been more sustained than that. Even 2005 it was an issue.
Human rights were pretty bad under Zelensky before the invasion, with both sides being charged with gross violations of international law.
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