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вареничок.eristavi 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

@maksymeristavi

Jan 9

Zaporizhzhia today. if i needed an illustration of what my soul looks like after three years of russians slowly erasing my native city, house by house, block by block, street by street, a loved one after a loved one.

this is calibrated torture technique to erase any physical anchors for your memories, any evidence that you ever inhibited that land. tested by russians on dozens of Ukrainians cities and thousands of cities across hundreds of nations before us

so one day it looks like Bakhmut (2023)

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вареничок.eristavi 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

@maksymeristavi

Dec 8, 2024

messaging with Syrian friends today and hearing all about their unexpected joy — they made me remember one of the most important lessons in my life.

several days before our Maidan revolution in Ukraine culminated in russia-sponsored mass murder and subsequent collapse of russia-backed tyranny, i went for a quick trip to Berlin. there i stopped by a museum of GDR, a russian-controlled tyranny of East Germany in post WW2 times.

near the museum’s exit there was a long timeline of the events starting from the russian occupation of East Germany and to the fall of Berlin’s Wall — almost forty years in total.

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вареничок.eristavi 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

@maksymeristavi

Aug 31, 2024

https://twitter.com/claramarchaud/status/1829726633726492713

russians murdered Nika Kozhushko inside her own home. robbing all of us a vibrant, young talent, a queer joy. robbing Ukraine of brilliant future. let me share with you some of Nika’s work. please amplify so more people learn her name. so russians pay for this genocide

https://twitter.com/claramarchaud/status/1829726633726492713

“Боротьба/Fight” (24.08.2024)

“24.08 was always an important date, even when I was a child and I did not understand the special meaning behind these numbers. But now, having a full awareness of history, what was and what is now, I am grateful for being born in this country and grateful to all those thanks to whom this country is independent today”

“what would you take with you, a small snail, when you will be trying to get out of a burning home?” (25.02.2024)

“And that's all I need... Vyshyvankas, sketchbook, work T-shirt, pencil case and hope. These are the things I packed with me on 24.02.2022, because I thought I was going to leave Kharkiv. I stayed and my life, like all Ukrainians, changed forever”

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вареничок.eristavi 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

@maksymeristavi

Jul 24, 2024

the entire western industry of explaining russia has been a sham. for decades it cultivated the image of russia as this mysterious, chaotic and complex power, impossible to predict or explain it in simple terms and without the help of limited number of brilliant minds

the power where every decision is a byproduct of complex minds of russian rulers, sinister but brilliant. hence 99% of this Western expertise would happen at micro-level psychoanalysing individuals but remaining totally blind to more complex phenomena of russian abusive culture

the only industry where by merit of speaking the imperial language and visiting the metropole at least once you can automatically claim to be also an expert on hundreds of nations russia is or used to colonize

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вареничок.eristavi 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

@maksymeristavi

Jul 18, 2024

art is the best shortcut for understanding russian colonial nature. would you like me to share some cool Ukrainian movies with English subtitles that will enlighten you about colonialism? you’re in luck
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my absolute fav is Chornobyl 22 by Oleksiy Radynskyi, the brightest anti-colonial thinker in Ukraine. this doc is about russian failed occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear station in 2022. eco-terrorism has always been a fixture of russian colonial behavior
takflix.com/en/films/chorn…

Eurodonbas by Kornii Hrytsiuk is a Ukrainian blockbuster of wartime docs, demolishing one of russia’s central imperial myths - that they ‘built’ eastern Ukraine. most of the featured cities don’t exist anymore, they were erased by russia
takflix.com/en/films/eurod…

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вареничок.eristavi 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

@maksymeristavi

Jun 16, 2024

together with thousands of other Ukrainian Roma, Oleksiy Tyrpak heroically fought to defend his home and Europe from fascism. young, brave and fearless, russian murderers stole his from us, too. he would turn 25 earlier this month

earlier into the full-scale invasion, Oleksiy got seriously injured defending Ukraine and could retire from the army. despite persuasions from the family, he decided to return to the frontline after the recovery: “I simply can’t leave my battalion behind,” he told his loved ones

“he would never leave anyone behind”
entire Oleksiy’s village Tur’ya Pasika in Zakarpattia oblast showed up to mourn him. kindness and Ukrainianness of this hero transcended ethnicity, skin color or social status. russia has no right to exist
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