Thread by @SlavaMalamud

I'll spare you the full translation. It's easily the most horrific text I can remember ever reading. But I still need to explain what's written here, because many of you might not understand exactly what Ukraine is facing. Exactly what Russia's plans for it are
Brace yourselves🧵

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1510911023338901511

This is primarily for those Westerners who still think this war may end in a compromise. That Ukraine may stop this by agreeing to some of Russia's demands (some of which may even be "reasonable"), or even that Ukraine, NATO and the US need to accept some portion of the blame...

Bear in mind that this comes directly from Kremlin-owned media, from their main news agency. And while this is a column by one of their propagandists, it fully describes the philosophy Russia is operating under.
It's nothing less than the philosophy of genocide...

The article's title is ominous in itself: "What Russia Must Do To Ukraine" and its TL;DR thesis is the answer: utterly and irretrievably eradicate it. It lays out why, outlines how and explains to what ends. It's long, it's truly blood-curdling, and it's incredibly thorough...

It starts out by rejecting the notion that "Ukrainian people are good, it's only the government that's bad." No, says the author, Ukrainian people are bad. They wanted to wage a blitzkrieg on Russian-speaking "antifascists", which is why they voted for Poroshenko and Zelensky...

Therefore, he continues, Russia needs "a complex of measures against the nazified population" that, by its sheer size, cannot be formally tried for as war criminals.
First, he goes, everyone who took arms against Russia must be eliminated. Totally. No trials...

"No distinctions between all armed forces and so-called nationalist battalions", he writes. And goes on to say that the same measure must be applied to territorial defense combatants too. They are all war criminals and active Nazis. They must be executed, brutally and publicly

But, the article warns, this is not enough. "A substantial part of the population" is also guilty - of "passively supporting Nazism." Therefore, they must be made to suffer all hardships of war as a just punishment. Their subsequent denazification must be achieved through...

ruthless ideological repressions and strict censorship. But all of this can be achieved, the article says, only if the territory is controlled, completely, by the winners. Ukraine must be completely absorbed into Russia, with a government loyal to Kremlin installed...

Russia cannot afford to be a liberal or merciful occupier, either. Its ideology "cannot be argued against" by the occupied side. The length of "denazification" cannot be any shorter than one whole generation, at least 25 years, enough to bring up a new society of loyal Russians.

Nazism must be defined as any desire for Ukrainian independence or European orientation. Saying that Ukraine should be in EU means being a Nazi and must be punished as such. But the entire "historical memory" of Ukraine is an artificial Western creation and is inherently Nazi...

Which is why even the word "Ukraine" must be forbidden. The parts of Ukraine under direct Russian control cannot be neutral: they must display utmost loyalty to Russia to atone for their guilt to Russian people (the guilt they incurred by wanting to be independent or European)...

"Denazification is inevitably going to be deukrainization", it continues. kraine has no right to statehood or ethnic self-determination. Anyone who thinks of themselves as Ukrainian ("the social swamp" it calls them) must be either destroyed to forced to endure full hardships...

of war as a lesson.
The five Western onblasts of "Catholic Ukraine" can remain outside Russia, but must be completely demilitarized. Any display of disloyalty to Russia would trigger a new "operation" and reprisals. This may require Russian military occupation...

The rest of Ukraine will be absorbed into Russia, culturally as well as politically. This is achieved by total propagandizing of the society, complete ban on all Ukrainian literature, strict control over children's education. The very memory of Ukrainian identity must be erased..

Finally, Russia must understand that it will have no allies in this project of genocide and cultural erasure. Which means that Russia will completely reject all Western values. Russia's ultimate goal is to take itself outside of the Western system completely...

as it punishes Ukraine for choosing the West in the first place.
This is it. This is the program, the plan, in all its monstrocity. Please tell me that you have ever read anything more horrific.
And now, tell me what compromise can exist for Ukraine. I will wait.