Thread by @sumlenny

THREAD Ukrainian army witness the level of destruction in the villages liberated from Russians. It is also about symbolic destruction: Russians defecated in the living rooms of the flats, slaughtered pigs in the houses, deliberately made houses disgusting. Why do they act so?

https://twitter.com/brokenpixelua/status/1509814885579997210

Well, first, it is a centuries-old Russian tradition to defecate in living rooms or sacred places of raided neighbours. Russian writer Leo Tolstoi who used to be an officer of Russian army, described it in his "Hadji Murat" novel, painting a picture of a raided Chechen village.

A protagonist comes to a raided village and sees, that it is desolated, and Russian soldiers not only burnt bee hives, but defecated in the houses and in the Mosque's water spring and in the Mosque itself: "with a clear purpose to make it useless", adds Russian officer Tolstoi.

Interesting, that an English translation I have found on Internet uses a way milder expression and says about "filth" and "pollution", although Tolstoi clearly described the "shit" and "faeces". What a noble attempt to protect the dignity of Russians in the West!

The Tolstoi-described Russian tradition is very vivid up today. In 2015, RU army took over UKR checkpoint Chongar on the border btw Crimea and Kherson region. As Russians pulled back, they've left the checkpoint devastated and shitted in the dormitory.
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Sometimes this desire for senseless destruction takes really weird forms. Last days, while leaving Kharkiv area, Russians have machine-gunned dozens of cows at a local farm. Still, the defecation process is of a very symbolic nature for Russians.

One really needs to dive into the depth of Russian internet now. Try to google "defecate in front of a door". You will find a lot of discussions of this traditional fun for Russian teenager and a way to "punish" your neighbours you do not like - if you are an adult.

"What happens if I defecate in front of my neighbour's door and ring his doorbell?" - asks a user on a Russian "quora" analogue.
"Is it a crime to defecate under one's door?"
"What to do if my neighbour had defecated at my door?"
"They have shitted at my door. What can I do?"

Yes, these are all original questions on Russian internet, and they get many replies. It is also typical for Russian house thieves to defecate in a robbed flat. "They have robbed our apartment - and defecated in the center of the living room" - writes this internet user.

So effectively, it is like a rape. A rape is never about sex and orgasm. It is about power and humiliation. A rapist rapes to humiliate a woman (or a man), and a Russian soldier does not steal (to get rich), he demonstrates his power. That is why he defecates in the living room.

It is not about "I will take your blender, or a frying pan, or your t-shirt" (all these items were stolen by Russians - literally, they looted frying pans and blenders). It is about "I will destroy your life". It is a pure rapist's logic. Keep this in mind while dealing with RU.