Ehhh….Americans who went to Afghanistan during the operation and supported and wrote propaganda for the Taliban, or equally for ISIS, were persecuted and jailed. I don’t see how this is different.
There is little in common between the Taliban and Russia. When the full story is suppressed in the case of Ukraine, the public doesn’t hear that ethnic Russian Ukrainians suffer a lot of threats and abuse at the hands of the huge Nazi-sympathetic segment of native Ukrainians, especially in the East where the not-so-secretly Nazi-sympathetic Azov Battalion has been committing war crimes (they are at war, they claim) against the Ethnic Russians there, and who make up a significant segment and perhaps even the majority.
Who is served by suppressing such information?
I have googled interviews with Alina Lipp, who has moved from Germany to Russia partly for fear of being suppressed all the way into a German prison and partly out of sympathy for Russians. Not Putin, Russians.
Who are these Azov fighters, anyway?
The Azov Battalion is an extreme-right nationalist paramilitary organization based in Ukraine. Founded in 2014, the group promotes Ukrainian nationalism and neo-Nazism through its National Militia paramilitary organization and National Corps political wing. It is notable for its recruitment of far-right foreign fighters from the U.S. and Europe as well as its extensive transnational ties with other far-right organizations. In 2022, the group came to prominence again for fighting against Russian forces in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Mariupol. (source: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/azov-battalion#text_block_33831)
There is another side to the war in Ukraine, which is the mistreatment and killing of ethnic Russians. There is a strong Nazi element in Ukraine. Western governments pressure news sources and social media to suppress discussion of this. Germany even treats such discussion as a CRIME, apparently. Apparently, if you do so, you are a Putin-loving Russian asset.
Who is served by suppressing such information?
I have googled interviews with Alina Lipp, who has moved from Germany to Russia partly for fear of being suppressed all the way into a German prison and partly out of sympathy for Russians. Not Putin, Russians.
Who are these Azov fighters, anyway?
The Azov Battalion is an extreme-right nationalist paramilitary organization based in Ukraine. Founded in 2014, the group promotes Ukrainian nationalism and neo-Nazism through its National Militia paramilitary organization and National Corps political wing. It is notable for its recruitment of far-right foreign fighters from the U.S. and Europe as well as its extensive transnational ties with other far-right organizations. In 2022, the group came to prominence again for fighting against Russian forces in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Mariupol. (source: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/azov-battalion#text_block_33831)