And yet another #notallrussians moment. A Russian leaves a peculiar commentary on a photo with a Ukrainian kid mourning the death of his father, who died defending Irpin. To quote:
https://twitter.com/sternenko/status/1521403944202817536
"This [censored] will grow up and will pursue vengeance. Why do you leave them alive? Didn't you have enough of whelps of these subhumans in Odesa? They must be all exterminated. Every last one of them"
And then he includes a quote from the Bible. A peculiar one, it looks like Psalm 136:9, although the numbering doesn't seem to match in English edition. 136:10, perhaps?
"Who smote Egypt with their first-born"
I've did hear that newer Western editions were very softened.
"Who smote Egypt with their first-born"
I've did hear that newer Western editions were very softened.
The more literal translation of the quote (and it is Psalm 136:9 in Russian) would be:
"blessed be he, who takes thine babies and crushes them onto a rock" - archaisation is mine, so it is probably wrong.
"blessed be he, who takes thine babies and crushes them onto a rock" - archaisation is mine, so it is probably wrong.
Well, there you have it. Quintessentially Russian jack-pot: hatred, pious façade for said hatred and an air of total supremacy. An essential ideological make-your-own-genocide kit, all in one succinct illustration.
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