Thread by @Vitainmyhead

So this is one of the winners of @BoChildrensBook She is a UK based illustrator. She has won with the illustration about #Izum the town that was destroyed by the russian army, people were murdered, raped. A Ukrainian children's writer was tortured and killed there this spring 1/1

So the illustrator is drawing her memories from the #Izum town (not a year or two ago, but now, during the war), draw with soviet nostalgia, because her childhood was during that period, not saying that this is a Ukrainian town (because she left it and I suppose went to russia) 2

In the beginning of the war she drew the illustration to stop the war. Ukrainian soldier is fighting a soldier of unknown country, right? No other words of support of Ukraine or mentions that this is #russianaggression Nothing, just this picture. 3

At the same time this illustrator lives and works in UK, so actually she can talk freely, there's no any reason not to give the names to the things, but she's typical russian, that has an empire ambition in her identity. And like many others she does nothing to stop 4

To stop her former government, to name the tragedy, to stop being "I'm not in politics", but at the same time she feels the market and decides to illustrate about her childhood in Izum now. And @BoChildrensBook gives her the platform, I just have the question why?

Because through these months, we, Ukrainian illustrators have seen so many appropriations by russians of our tragedy, caused by their country, in the cultural field, that it’s hard to be not emotional about these facts. #russianculture kills, it doesn’t make world better