Not sure which sick mind is allowing Oleh Kustovsky’a cartoons on the US-funded RFERL website, but this level of dehumanizing xenophobia is simply mesmerising (and worth a thread). Here, Russian-speaking cockroaches are running away as Ukraine reads a book in Ukrainian language.
Here, a Russian-speaking untermensch insists on watching Svaty (a Ukrainian comedy series produced by country’s current Russian-speaking president) in Russian, while a healthy family watches all films with Ukrainian subtitles.
Here, the highspeed train of Poroshenko’s language law, aimed at squeezing Russian language out of public sphere, is taking over the ramshackle Russian steamer driven by Putin. Of course forced assimilation of minorities is the fastest and most direct route to the EU.
Of course Ukraine is the real Russia and the disgusting place people call Russia should be in fact called Muscovy because it doesn’t deserve the name.
President Zelensky is a tiny prick unworthy of Ukraine’s greatness. Because Russian-speaker supposedly.
Yanukovych and Lukashenko are Russian ladies who sleep with Putin and some skulls.
Glamorous Ukrainian-speakers will never give a lift to a shabby Russian-speaking hitchhiker.
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Olga Misik, 19, made herself famous by reading the constitution to riot policemen. She is now facing two years in prison. Sentence due on May 11. In her final word, she says that she was inspired by Sophie Scholl, an antifascist executed by nazis in 1943. docs.google.com/document/d/19v…
“The fascist regime [in Germany] fell, just like the fascist regime in Russia will also fall one day. I don’t know when it happens - in a week, in a year or in a decade. But I know that one day we will prevail, because love and youth always prevail,” writes Olga Misik.
Like everywhere else in Eastern Europe, Russian liberals and quasi-liberals have been flirting and continue to flirt with nationalism and US-styled right-wing populism. But there is a healthy strain that formulates things as they are - here is fascism and we need to fight it.
Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Andriy Parubiy, endorses an appeal by far-right politicians and activists to prevent Zelensky’s election win, which they see as a revanche for pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.
Once a “social-nationalist”, Parubiy started his political career in Lviv’s far-right milieu. He later moved on to join Yulia Tymoshenko’s mainstream party, but old links remain as was evident during Maidan revolution and remains evident now.
There are many reasonable questions and doubts about Zelensky’s presidential bid, namely his oligarchic links and inexperience, but there is precious little to support the conspiracy theory about him being “pro-Russian”.
Ha, that’s a new, Ukraine. TV debates between rival neo-nazis - Karas of C14 and Korotkikh of National Corps/Azov on Zik channel. Subject: Whom to jail for corruption. A step up from quasi-academic discussions of white reconquista on Azov radio. Screenshot via Roman Huba.
When he lived in Russia, Korotkikh founded National Socialist Society (NSO), one of the largest nazi groups in Russian history. Members of its offshoot, NSO-Sever, were jailed for multiple murders of immigrants and even some of their own.
A native of Belarus, Korotkikh was granted Ukrainian citizenship by president Poroshenko. In the picture he appears to be making “from heart to the sun” gesture - a crypto-fascist substitute for Sieg Heil.
So this is Olena Semenyaka, an ideologist for Azov’s National Corps, being shown around the Latvian parliament by Dace Kalnina of NA, a government coalition party. Semenyaka is interesting not just because of her posing on photos with a swastika flag or fascist thinker Dugin>>>
She also spells out Azov’s geopolitical plan, which she calls Reconquista. The idea is that upon defeating Russia, Ukraine should proceed to claim its territory and then entire Europe for the white race. Listen to her presenting the project on Azov radio. mixcloud.com/a_radio/azov-f…
She sees Ukraine as the leading force in a future superstate, which will include all of Eastern and Central Europe as well as present-day Russia (divided into many ethnic states). She calls the project Intermarium, since it would spread from the Baltic to Black Sea.
It so happened that I spent a week travelling through three Baltic countries and listening to typical East European 20th century family stories - of victims and perpetrators living under the same roof or - a common case - being the same individuals.
In one striking story, two aging brothers would always beat each other at every family gathering throughout the 70s and 80s, and the youngsters couldn’t fathom why. In the 90s, it turned out one was Holocaust perpetrator and the other took part in Soviet deportations.
The anniversary of Soviet invasion prompted usual suspects to say usual stuff about collective historical guilt and collective repenting at a national level. I don’t believe in that stuff, possibly because I don’t really feel myself as a part of any nation.
London is the de-facto capital of the post-Soviet mafia state. It accumulates a lion’s share of oligarchic assets from everywhere in ex-USSR. But why tackle that, when you can pretend it’s another Cold War. That’s British government’s reaction to Skripal poisoning in a nutshell.
You can’t really partake in the robbery of Russian people and display outrage at the criminal acts of your business partners in this lucrative enterprise - all at the same time.
The failure to admit that Putin’s Russia is an integral part of the Western financial and political system, a Dorian Gray’s picture of the West, will continue to produce all the wrong policies and strengthen ex-Soviet kleptocrats for years to come.