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Today I address you to create a space where people can post alternative political viewpoints without being labelled white supremacists, nazis, monsters or anything of the sort, where you will not be afraid to be suppressed for your honest political views and where you can discuss level-headed with other people without things turning into a contest of popularity, spun into political correctness or righteousness or without fear of alienation.

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Below I will begin posting alternative views for the most actual news that is affecting all of us. Feel free to talk about it and also share your own alternative sources. Let's talk to each other and get some healthy conversation going once again.

The first post I will make is very important to me. As you all know, there is a situation in Ukraine where Russia entered their military force for a certain objective: to remove the current power in Kiev and demilitarize the country. I want to share my first post to help expose something that was hidden from the mainstream, and has been censored from Youtube. I would like you to tell me if this should have been censored.

The first video is subtitled in French, so please use a translator to understand the meaning. However the footage speaks for itself. It was made by a French lady (Anne-Laure Bonnel) who had created a friendship with an individual from the Donbass region. She travelled to Ukraine to see for her own eyes what was happening. Her footage is very revealing:
https://odysee.com/@LiBERTY_VOICE:b/DONBASS-(BQ):c

I will be sharing my translations with the original poster soon so if you want you can wait for the english translation.

Summary:

- The video starts with a snippet of a speech from Petro Poroshenko.
"We will have work and they (the separatists) will not"
"We will have retirements and they will not"
"We will have advantages for retirees and children, and they will not"
"Our children will go to school and kindergarden, their kids will stay in caves"
"Because they don't know how to do anything."
"And that, and precisely that, is how we will win this war (against the separatists)"

- The video shows the fallout of the Ukrainian army's shelling in Donbass. Civilians are in pain on the ground. A lady talk about her dead children.
- Anne-Laure Bonnel visits a cave filled with children. The people wonder if what she is filming will be shown.
- More cities of Donbass Ukraine are visited, and the mutilation of separatists, the dire living conditions with no electricity and poisoned water are expressed by villagers. Cemetaries are visited.
- The Odessa coup is described by a defector of the Ukraine army, who could not find himself to shoot at his brothers in Donbass. People were burned alive and shot as the government allowed it all to happen. It was a grave crime.
- A children's hospital, a church and a food kitchen are visited, a doctor and a priest describe the realities of the situation.
- Villagers describe everyday life where infrastructures are destroyed and people have left in masses.
- A mine is visited, where people try to continue working, a lady talks about life dealing with a sniper playing with her, shooting at her windows, a mother talks about the death of her son who was a volunteer insurgent.

An english documentary can be found here:
https://odysee.com/@RTDocumentary:4/donbass.-yesterday,-today,-and-tomorrow:7
Similar topics but in english and more detailed.

Finally we can have a space like this!

Yeeeaaaaah, no.