“Pirate” from the Siberian Battalion wrote a letter to his fellow fighters from the BOAK partisan movement in the event of his death.

Greetings to all our comrades!

My name is Vladislav, call sign “Pirate”. I decided to leave this letter in the event of my death in the war against the imperial Russian regime, in the war against the state in which I was born and raised, in the war against the dictator who usurped power long before I was born.

I want this letter to remain a historical document of the participation of anarchist revolutionaries in the resistance of the Ukrainian people against Russian tyranny.

Like all sane citizens of the Russian Federation, I was shocked by the start of this war, the terrible injustice and crimes committed by the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine. From the first days of the full-scale invasion, I thought only about what I could do to fight this injustice, how I could stop the madness that my own people were committing.

When I learned about the formation of military units within the Ukrainian Armed Forces that accepted citizens of the Russian Federation, I immediately understood that I had to fight this way, with a weapon in my hand, for the freedom of the Ukrainian people and our ideals.

And even though I may not see the victory of the Ukrainian people over the occupiers, the bright future of anarcho-communism, justice and freedom for all people on Earth, I believe. I believe that the future will surely come if our comrades fight, that totalitarianism, authoritarianism and fascism will not dominate humanity. I wish my comrades to also not lose faith in the struggle for freedom.

The revolution is immortal!