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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
Dec 4, 2024
Something’s changing on the maps
of Europe right now.

It’s subtle change that only a trained eye can see.

As a Ukrainian, I never had the privilege of not noticing what the map of Europe looked like in every book or movie. On too many of those maps, Ukraine wasn’t included.
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Ukraine’s absence always communicated a bitter sense of invisibility. Here I was, sitting in Kyiv, a capital of a dynamic democracy bordering four EU countries.

And yet, apparently, I was not in Europe. Together with my forty million compatriots, I was stuck in a non-place.
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Borders mean much more to the people who inhabit them, and Ukrainians are one of Europe’s key border folk.

We have always been, as Serhiy Plokhy put it, “the gates of Europe”: from the spread of Indo-Europeans to the Mongolian invasion and to modern Russian aggression.
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Oct 30, 2024
My hot take: Ukraine’s Maidan was a pretty standard pro-democratic revolution for Central/Eastern Europe.

Similar revolts led to democracy fully prevailing in other countries — and didn’t lead to wars and mass devastation.

Do you know why? One word: Russia.
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When pro-democracy movements swept Central/Eastern Europe in the 1980s/1990s, Soviet Union was in decline and then Russia was deep in internal crises.

So these nations could peacefully sort their politics out and transition into western democracies.

Ukraine wasn’t so lucky.
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Georgia and Ukraine had their democratic turning points exactly when Russia was fully back into its usual autocratic empire state — so our revolutions were met with direct military aggression from Russia in 2008 and 2014 respectively.
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Sep 12, 2024
I know some are getting tired of the Russians at War movie scandal at @TIFF_NET

I get it.

I don’t like canceling stuff — especially when there are more practical ways to help Ukraine (like helping its armed forces).

But this is an exception.
This is a teachable moment.
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The backlash against the funding and promotion of Trofimova’s Russians at War movie by Canadian institutions is not caused by hurt feelings or anti-Ru censorship.

It’s caused by western institutions getting easily exploited by Russian propaganda campaigns — which has to stop.
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As of today, here’s how the situation looks:

Trofimova, who spent 7 years working for Kremlin’s top propaganda network, got hundreds of thousands of Canada’s public money to film a movie showing Russian soldiers in ordinary, empathetic light.

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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Jul 1, 2024
Why is Russia trying to murder Ukraine’s towns?

Seeing the fate of Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Maryinka and other towns makes you wonder: why would anyone kill a city? Isn’t occupation enough for Moscow?

The answer also holds the key to understanding Russia's logic of this war.

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Killing a city is a lot of work that leaves you with an absurd result: a blank space on the map. Nothing in place of something.

So much discipline, intention and overtime work just to bleach a limited land area. This begs the question: Why?

Slavenka Drakulić had the answer.
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The Croatian journalist had a similar question when she wrote about Old Bridge (Stari Most), a 436-year-old bridge in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which was destroyed by artillery of the Croatian Army in 1993.

Her quote:
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May 23, 2024
A Maidan memory unlocked.

When the protests were just starting as student movements, we would tie blue-yellow ribbons on our backpacks and coats to be more visible and promote our cause everywhere in Kyiv.

The police figured it out and started targeting us one by one.
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The following week, numerous videos of police harassing people on the streets and even picking them from public transport popped up.

With the unleashed violence, the pro-Yanukovych minority and undercover cops caught up: people got attacked for wearing ribbons.
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In Maidan circles, people were advised to stay in larger groups or hide their ribbons in public for personal safety.

Again: Ukrainian citizens living in Kyiv couldn’t wear ribbons the color of their state flag in public.

The anti-Ukrainian nature of the regime was clear.
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Mar 5, 2024
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.

A thread.
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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.
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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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