We are sad to inform you of the death of another anarchist, Vladislav "Pirate" Yurchenko.
Comrades from the BOAC (Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists) prepared a text in memory of the "Pirate" and published his farewell letter.
We have translated it into Ukrainian:
Greetings to all our comrades. My name is Vladislav, call sign 'Pirate'. I have decided to leave this letter in case I die in the war against the imperial Russian regime, the war against the country in which I was born and raised, the war against the dictator who usurped power before I was born. I want this letter to remain a historical document about the participation of anarchist revolutionaries in the resistance of the Ukrainian people against Russian tyranny. I, like all sane citizens of the Russian Federation, was shocked by the outbreak of this war, the terrible injustice and crimes committed by the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine. Since the first days of the full-scale invasion, I have been thinking about what I can do to fight against this injustice, how I can stop the madness that my own people are committing. When I learned about the appearance of military units within the Ukrainian Armed Forces that accepted Russian citizens, I immediately realized that I had to fight for the freedom of the Ukrainian people and our ideals in this way, with arms in hand. And even if I don't see the victory of the Ukrainian people over the occupiers, I believe in the bright future of anarchist communism, justice and freedom for all people on Earth. I believe that the future will definitely come, as long as our comrades continue to fight, totalitarianism, authoritarianism and fascism will not take over humanity. I wish my comrades not to lose confidence in the struggle for freedom.
We are sad to inform you of the death of another anarchist, Vladislav "Pirate" Yurchenko.
Comrades from the BOAC (Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists) prepared a text in memory of the "Pirate" and published his farewell letter.
We have translated it into Ukrainian:
Greetings to all our comrades. My name is Vladislav, call sign 'Pirate'. I have decided to leave this letter in case I die in the war against the imperial Russian regime, the war against the country in which I was born and raised, the war against the dictator who usurped power before I was born. I want this letter to remain a historical document about the participation of anarchist revolutionaries in the resistance of the Ukrainian people against Russian tyranny. I, like all sane citizens of the Russian Federation, was shocked by the outbreak of this war, the terrible injustice and crimes committed by the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine. Since the first days of the full-scale invasion, I have been thinking about what I can do to fight against this injustice, how I can stop the madness that my own people are committing. When I learned about the appearance of military units within the Ukrainian Armed Forces that accepted Russian citizens, I immediately realized that I had to fight for the freedom of the Ukrainian people and our ideals in this way, with arms in hand. And even if I don't see the victory of the Ukrainian people over the occupiers, I believe in the bright future of anarchist communism, justice and freedom for all people on Earth. I believe that the future will definitely come, as long as our comrades continue to fight, totalitarianism, authoritarianism and fascism will not take over humanity. I wish my comrades not to lose confidence in the struggle for freedom.
Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee. Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp.
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