Share this page!

Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Twitter logo
Feb 25 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
What a spineless, cowardly dick.
Just like I said, this is all he is capable of. After years of publicly enforcing Putin, after proudly announcing how everyone must support him, he mumbles prewritten talking points about being just an athlete and how it's hard for both sides.
🤮
*endorcing

And nice touch there to drag his family in as an excuse. Capitals PR people know this is the one argument the public will swallow.
What nobody can miss is how weak and cowardly this guy is.
Pathetic. Utterly shameful and pathetic.
Do you see it now?
But everyone will let him get away with this. Nobody will ask him whether he wants to apologize for his support of Putin. For calling Ukrainians fascists.
Everyone will believe that his family is in danger. Really?
What do you think would happen to his family? Seriously...
Do you think they will be dragged out of their palatial Moscow houses and shot in the streets? Please...
Spare some thoughts for the families in Kyiv and Kherson who are cowering in basements and subways from the bombs Ovechkin's friend and benefactor is lobbing at them.
Oh, wait. Those families don't have anyone who whacks rubber with sticks for your amusement. Never mind.
🤮
"We cannot do anything."
Fuck you, coward. You sure didn't seem to think so when you lent your name to supporting Putin's war in Donbas in 2014. Or when you founded that pro-Putin movement in 2017.
And now you can't do anything?
Fuck you.
What a discredit to hockey.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Slava Malamud 🇺🇦

Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @SlavaMalamud

Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Feb 27
Here is a short thread dedicated to refuting these Kremlin-written talking points.
However, AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER!
This info is meant for Western readers who are curious about the origin of these claims and want to know the truth.
Never engage or argue with trolls!
1) "This is a US proxy war against Russia"
This claim dates back to 2004, when Ukrainians rejected fraudulent election results that gave victory to a Kremlin-backed candidate. The resultant "orange revolution" concluded in a new election. Russians responded by claiming...
... the revolution was instigated, financed and entirely led by the George W. Bush administration. The same claim was made about Obama in 2014, when Ukrainians rebelled again and ousted the corrupt sitting Putin-aligned president (the same guy as in 2004).
Read 13 tweets
Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Feb 25
We have all seen the footage of brave Russians demonstrating against the war. They are beautiful people and they risk more than any of us, Twitter warriors, ever will.
But they are a tiny minority. A tiny one. Right now, Putin isn't even remotely afraid of them...
This can change, of course, which is why it's so important Ukraine fights on.
But right now, most of Russia is in three camps:
1) the silently horrified,
2) the stupidly deluded excuse-mutterers
3) the crazy-eyed Hitlerjugend from the Cabaret scene.
The first camp are the people who are dumbfounded, hurt, scared or disgusted, but are either afraid to speak out or think it would do no good, or concole themselves by saying it's too complicated/everyone's fault/not irreversible.
Read 7 tweets
Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Feb 24
Ovechkin is a despicable person and a coward.
He was basking in his adulation of Putin when he knew he could hide behind @CapitalsPR, his guard dog @SergeyKocharov and stock phrases about "I am not politic." It was safe then.
Now, when I am no longer the only one asking, he hides
They are frantically writing more non-answers for him. They are thinking up excuses. They will want you believe that his family is held hostage.
Nobody held his family when he fronted Putin's campaign. Nobody forced him to support the 2014 invasion.
It's all lies. Everything.
The Capitals want to protect their brand. They think it will all blow over some day, and meanwhile there is still a shit ton of jerseys to sell and records to hype. Their star has blood on his hands.
This is one thing they don't want you to talk about.
TALK ABOUT IT.
Read 5 tweets
Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Feb 21
Hey, this guy definitely isn't working for Kremlin.
I feel dirty even refuting this shit, but duty is duty.
1) Ukraine isn't attacking anyone. It is currently being shelled by Russia.
2) There are no rebels in the east. The east is occupied by Russia.
3) Ukraine isn't trying to drag anyone into a war, let alone for US politics...
4) Putin is definitely the one who wants war.
5) "De facto autonomy" for the east is not what Putin wants. He wants to either fully annex all or most of Ukraine or install a puppet government there, fully controlled from Moscow.
6) Fuck you. Comprehensively and entirely.
Read 4 tweets
Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Feb 19
"And we are here with Gord McPuck. Gord, how important was the goal you pucked?"
"In the grand scheme of things? Not very. Future historians digging through the rubble of our civilization probably won't study it much. As import goes, it's not the building of the Pyramids or 9/11"
"Gord, can you tell us how you felt when you hockeyed that puck?"
"Generally dismayed by the state of humanity at this point in time. Going back to your previous question about importance, that puck I hockeyed pales in comparison to many events transpiring in the world currently"
"Gord, what was going through your head when you hockeyed that goal tonight?"
"Blood, chemicals and electrical impulses that commanded my body to perform tasks inapplicable to any other area of human endeavor outside of this arbitrarily defined and tragically overwrought game."
Read 4 tweets
Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Feb 15
I am absolutely exasperated with @NBCOlympics announcers' attempts at pronouncing Slavic/Russian names. It kills me to even listen to them try (or not even try) to do it. I wish I could compose a comprehensive guide to Russian names. I can't.
I will do a quick and dirty one...
Rule 1. English pronunciation norms NEVER apply. Russian names are transliterated directly and are meant to be read phonetically. Therefore, Anastasia is never an-as-TAY-shuh (it's an-as-tah-SEE-ya) and Ivan is never EYE-van (it's ee-VAHN)...
Just remember that in Russian every letter stands for its own sound, AND THAT SOUND ONLY. The "i" will always be pronounced as "ee", the "a" will always be pronounced as "ah" - no exceptions, no variations. The only thing that varies is the stress.
Consonants are self-explanatory
Read 13 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @SlavaMalamud has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @SlavaMalamud!

Read all threads by @SlavaMalamud

:(