On the night of February 8, Vsevolod Petrovsky died under artillery fire near the village of Komissarovka, Lugansk People’s Republic — an honest and intelligent comrade, a Marxist historian, and one of the few professional Ukrainian journalists who could really be called a leftist. Vsevolod evolved from a liberal and supporter of the “Orange Revolution” to a volunteer in the Ghost Brigade. He spoke in detail about his life in an interview he gave a few weeks ago, and which quickly spread across the internet.
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| Comrade Vsevolod Petrovsky, presente! |
His parents left for the United States before the war, but Seva stayed at home, becoming a local coordinator of Union Borotba (Struggle). Just a year ago, he wrote a long article critical of “the law of January 16” — but, at the same time, immediately pointed to the chauvinistic and anti-democratic content of the “Euromaidan” movement, and became a consistent adversary, told in well-written articles on Maidan and AntiMaidan: http://liva.com.ua/maidan-mirror.html, http://liva.com.ua/War-psychosis.html.
The best way to preserve the memory of this man is to continue the struggle against class oppression and fascist reaction, for which Vsevolod Petrovsky gave his life.
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