Together with @fiorine we are putting a narrative project. We are examining relationships of images from Ukraine and word quotes from, well, "good Russians”. #NotAllRussians 1/n
Context for this batch: one of the popular Russian twitter users asked his followers whether they would support the Ukrainian Armed Forces with money. The answers are puzzling yet obvious. #NotAllRussians 2/n
By the time we put it together, OP's account ceased to exist — probably ban by angry readers #NotAllRussians 3/n
It is afternoon of Dec 31, and there is another missile attack happening as I put together this thread. #NotAllRussians 4/20
I am guided by Bertold Brecht's War Primer, the only book he did during WWII. He overlaid photos from the media with own old poems. #NotAllRussians 5/20
We follow Brecht's route using direct voices from ordinary people. #NotAllRussians 6/20
Brecht was struck by aerial photography. Technology, camera and perspective offered a radical view of the world never seen before. Now it seems that a new radical view and a new reading is gained through people, not drone videos #NotAllRussians 7/20
Destroying Ukrainian monuments, banning Ukrainian language on temporarily occupied territories, seizing Ukrainian history textbooks, looting Ukrainian churches, raiding Ukrainian museums. It was never about NATO.
In 2014 this has been happening in occupied Donbas and Crimea. Nothing new as Ukrainian language was suppressed around 134 times in last four centuries.
this empire will collapse too.
Occupiers also went in for Ukrainian veterans, civic activists, and their families. Some of them had lists in advance. Some of them had local collaborators.