Day 270. Special Cultural Operation
Stop glorifying russian impunity. TW: graphic content, russian "dissidents".
Hey everyone.
We need to stop glorifying russian impunity and platform fake russian “dissidents” who help russia continue committing genocide of Ukrainians.
We really need to stop this.
I saw this commentary by Veronica Morozova today.
The only thing I have to add to this - the sun will rise in the west and set in the east sooner than we see russian “liberals” acknowledge the problem and start doing their work.
Or, in Ukrainian - коли рак на горі свисне (English analogy - when pigs fly).
Why?
Because the so-called russian liberals and people considered to be in “opposition” are part of the same imperialist culture that pro-regime russians are.
I know that some prominent Western journalists read this blog.
If you hear a russian “liberal” or “russian opposition'“ representative say that it’s not “russians, it’s putin” - please show integrity and challenge that.
Educate your colleagues and friends on this.
This is critical if we want to stop genocide of Ukrainians and hold russians accountable.
All russians are collectively responsible for the genocide of Ukrainians.
It really won’t harm them to experience accountability for the first time in their lives.
If a russian person doesn’t feel guilty these days and instead of being heartbroken over Ukrainians exhumating mass graves with civilians’ bodies - hundreds of them across Ukraine, they are worrying about russians being invited to be held accountable for those mass graves, ask yourself - why? Is that really a “good russian”?
What’s so heroic about declaring that you are against genocide?
Are you really against genocide if you are against any justice being served for the victims?
Special cultural operation & the so-called russian “dissidents”
Here’s an example of what I mean.
Ukrainians: - It’s NOT putin’s war. It’s russians committing #GenocideOfUkrainians every day for 270 days, after over 8 years (!) since the unprovoked invasion.
russian “dissidents”: - It’s not russians. it’s putin!
Link to that disgusting article - here. I felt sick when I saw it, this is low even for Pussy Riot. This message pushed by the russian “dissidents” defines the narrative that becomes normal in the society - even though it’s complete nonsense.
Make sure to check out the interview with the Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky - he explicitly explains how the russian “culture” is used as a weapon, calling it a “special cultural operation”. We translated it from the svynosobacha language on request of the analytical department of our partner Come Back Alive - blog post here.
Bucha 2022
"Bucha
Among those killed was my cousin.
Three drunken russian bastards entered the house and shot him in the head. For no reason.
putin didn't do it, the russians did it.
458 bodies found (366 men, 86 women, 5 unidentified, 1 bag with body parts that cannot be identified as a body)"
Georgia 2022
I have a lot of Georgian friends and the first demonstration I went to in January 2022 was organised by the Georgian community in London. By the way, the huge russian diaspora in London organised nothing significant so far. They must be too busy worrying about “russophobia” which is the term they invented to avoid accountability for war crimes and genocides their evil empire commits everywhere they go. Whereas Georgians knew what kind of horror Ukrainians were about to deal with. That’s why they organised the demonstration in solidarity with us.
Georgia 1992-1993
I invite you to explore this material by Mirian Jugheli from Georgia. I’d like to note that in 1992-1993, russians were not “victims of the oppressive authoritarian putin’s regime”. They behaved like that because this is normal in their society. It’s an unpleasant thing to hear for many people. But it’s true.
It’s not putin. It’s russians.
Crimes without punishment for the russians become punishment without crimes for all the nations that they can get to.
Because the russians know there will be no consequences. As always.
If you don’t acknowledge this, eventually you’ll learn the hard way - and Ukrainians may not be there to defend you.
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