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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦 Profile picture
@StasOlenchenko
May 8, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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As Europe is yet again left with a fascist dictator dreaming of resurrecting an empire, let’s talk Victory Day in Russia and Ukraine.

To understand modern Russian identity and how the invasion of Ukraine perfectly fits into it, you have to take a close look at the #VictoryDay.
It might surprise a lot of people, but the Soviet Victory Day was not nearly as big as it is in modern Russia.

In fact, Victory Day in Russia is basically what independence day means for most other nations.
Victory Day provides a perfect bridge between the imperial, Soviet, and d modern-day Russia. It also feeds the unresolved imperialist ambitions of Russia.
Folks, it’s a death cult.
I can’t stress enough how undermining Russian version of Victory Day for the rest of former Soviet states and allies.
Ukraine’s relevance and human sacrifice in defeating the Nazis is one of the most widely ignored aspects of WWII discourse.
There is little joy for Ukraine in the WWII story. It’s a huge tragedy.
Of course, if you create a cult of war, sooner or later you’re gonna find a war to fight. Just call some people “Nazis” enough times and you’re good.
Kindly reminder that the Z-symbol and glorification of modern-day Russia basically means open support for the genocide of Ukrainians.
#NeverAgain now has dark undertones because a fascist war of extermination is here again, in Europe.
But it’s not too late to act.
Support for Ukraine is crucial right now.
If you want your donation to have a real impact, I urge you to donate to my dear friend @bo_pavlo who’s been volunteering 24/7 to supply Ukrainian defenders with drones.
Donate here: 100drones.com.ua
Feel free to download and post/send these cards wherever you want (but please tag or message me if you do): drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
More cards are available on the Ukraine Explainers website: uaexplainers.com

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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Mar 5
The anatomy of shilling for Russia or how to spot the wordings of a Russian asset/useful idiot.

Let’s unpack Simon Jenkins’ @guardian outcry about NATO escalation to see how specific wordings expose a Russian propaganda asset.

These wordings go beyond just Simon.

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Simon says Germany sending Taurus is a “risky escalation”.
It’s not.

The UK and France already sent similar long-range systems, even the US sent a bit of their ATACMS.

Taurus would help Ukraine a lot. But it’s not a game changer or a new development.
2/9
Simon fears the Taurus story looks like the West is leading a proxy war with Russia via Ukraine.

He omits the fact that Russia openly admits it is already waging a war with the West via Ukraine — and it already uses hybrid warfare tactics and killings on the NATO soil.
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Feb 25
For the 2nd anniversary of the Russian invasion, 3 big Russian opposition media held a joint crowdfunding to help Ukrainians affected by the invasion.

The readers, mostly exiled Russian liberals, were not happy.

Here are some of their replies with English translations.

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The original tweet explicitly told these funds were not going for the Ukraine’s Armed Forces, but to the civilian population.

(If you ask me, the most cost-effective anti-regime donation a Russian person can make IS to the UAF, but okay)

That didn’t matter.
2/6
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A lot of Russians see themselves as the central victims of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Victimhood and zero sense of civil responsibility are both central elements to Russian imperial identity.
3/6
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Jan 30
A few words about @mashagessen's piece for @NewYorker talking about the "democracy in darkness in Ukraine" – mainly about the criticism it is getting from many Ukrainians.

Why are we angry and frustrated with this piece?
1/9
For starters, it's so tiresome to see big media outlets employing a Russian citizen – with unavoidable imperial biases and misconceptions about Ukraine – to explain Ukraine to the western world.

In 20-freaking-24.

The power dynamic of this reporting is just wrong.
2/
Gessen had frank conversations with many Ukrainians for this piece – some of them shared their deepest fears with the author.

But I'm pretty sure none of these people would want their comments to be used for a piece about some kind of democracy crisis in Ukraine.
3/
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Jan 25
Russia invests heavily into a specific conspiracy claiming that Ukraine and Russia were on the brink of a peace deal in April 2022, but those efforts were stalled by the West.

I believe Kremlin will export this lie as its central propaganda narrative.

A short thread
1/11
Russia propaganda machine continuously tests various ideas and narratives to find potent lies that perform better at hijacking foreign discussions.

Kremlin’s international propaganda effort is much more consolidated and efficient than most people imagine.
2/
Some narratives stick, others don’t.

The “Bucha massacre was staged” lie was successful only within the circles of total lunatics — most people weren’t convinced given that Russia repeated the same genocidal pattern in many other parts of Ukraine.
3/
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Jan 11
Weirdly, 2022 felt more hopeful for many Ukrainians than early 2024.

Sure, the whole country went from peaceful life to an all-out invasion in 2022.

Sure, we almost lost Kyiv and our country in general.

But 2022 had something 2024 doesn't: hope for a radical change.
1/10
Now, I want to emphasize that 2022 was definitely the worst year in the lives of the absolute majority of Ukrainians.

One day we lived our lives, the next day everything we had and everyone we loved were in grave danger.

Nothing compares to this level of existential dread.
2/
But with the enormous volume & barbarity of Russia's war crimes and acts of genocide in Bucha, Irpin, Izium, Mariupol and beyond, it seemed that the rest of the world was starting to realize what Russia was.

Perhaps naively, we felt that this was a system-changing event.
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Dec 19, 2023
On a more serious note, Ukrainians didn’t just decide not to work with the Russian opposition out of spite.

We see their work, we know their impact — and we can clearly see it brings close to zero impact on Ukraine’s victory, our only cause.

Let me break it down for you.
1/6
If you look at the pro-cooperation arguments provided in that Politico piece, you’ll notice that Russians usually repeat the same points:

- Help us do anti-propaganda in Russia (“Give us funding to do polls and print Navalny posters”)
- Undo the Visa/Mastercard sanctions
2/6
- Let Russians emigrants into the EU
- Sanction more of Russian oligarchs

The wordings may differ, but these messages have stayed the same since 2022.

Out of all of them, only tighter anti-oligarch sanctions make sense for Ukraine’s victory.

3/6
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