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Mar 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On #InternationalWomensDay I reflect on how every generation of women in my family have faced Russian oppression and violence.
Here is my Great-grandmother Feodeosiia--ripped from her home and exiled to Siberia to starve under Stalin's "kulakization" policies. She would not let them see her cry.
My baba Antonina (on right) who lived under Soviet repression and fled across the killing fields of Europe with her daughter Ludmilla and son Oleh and husband.
And today, my sister Dana, who finds herself a war refugee thanks continued Russian imperialism and violence. May Ukrainian women one day live in peace. May the next generation never see war.
#StandWithUkraine

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1. This war must have a purpose.
2. Perhaps I am being too mystical in my thinking, but history seems to show that changing the course of human development sometimes requires catastrophe . Could it be that all this death and destruction may have some constructive end?
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🧵Update from Professor Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Kyiv Mohila Academia
Thoughts from #Kyiv – morning March 9
1. Ridicule of #Russia’s invasion is becoming increasingly widespread and global.
2. The latest (tongue in cheek) arguments on social media focus on whether the Territorial Brigade of #Mykolayiv should be 8th on the list of Europe’s most powerful armies or whether this spot should be given to the Roma of #Kakhovka who regularly steal Russian tanks.
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🧵Update from Professor Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Kyiv Mohila Academia.
Kyiv – afternoon March 7

1. Today “peace talks” between 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇦delegations have started in the Bilovezhska Pushcha resort in Belarus – the same place the agreement to dismember the USSR was signed Dec 1991.
2. I’m not sure how the symbolism of site selection should be interpreted, but if the rumors are true, the Russians have arrived at the talks having completely misunderstood #Ukraine’s current reality.
3. Journalist and #Bellingcat contributor @christogrozev (2019 Euro Press Prize winner) shares Russians have proposed the following as prerequisites of a ceasefire: 1) #Zelensky remains pro forma President, but pro-Russian Opposition Party leader Yuriy Boiko is appointed PM;
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Mar 2
🧵Update from Professor Mychailo Wynnyckyj
Kyiv Mohila Academia
1. Thoughts from #Kyiv - evening March 2
In the #Russian language and culture, one of the worst things one can experience is "pozor".
2. This word translates as "shame" but its connotation is much deeper. 🇷🇺 culture is what org. theorists call "vertically collectivist" - extremely hierarchical with pronounced tendency to group-think. Leadership in such a culture is all about machismo and metaphysical charisma.
3. The legitimacy of the "vozhd" (chief, boss, principal) is derived from the belief of followers in his "supernatural" (or at least visionary) qualities. These must be reinforced regularly through successful use of force and/or publicly acclaimed achievements.
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Mar 2
🧵1. Who am I? I am Ukrainian Canadian. I have Scottish hair from my mum and high cheekbones from my Tato. My family's history is one of oppression--from the Tsar to Soviets, Nazis and Fascist Russia today.
2. My father just sent me the letters that were saved from when his father and their family were ripped from their home in Ivanivka and shipped to northern Siberia - to a work camp, to die.
3. My great Uncle Vasyl Krawvchenko wrote a poem for his mother on the date of that eviction: March 5 1930. This is for her memory.
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1.Air raid warning means time to think and write in the basement. Family is safe. Planes flying overhead but no explosions nearby.
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passivity vs. agency (collective and personal)
3. When Russian soldiers entered Ukraine (and as they continue to invade) they were following orders. The hierarchy told them to move in, so they moved. That's the way things work in an army
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