while some westerners proudly announce that in 2023 they finally start seeing centuries-old patterns of #RussianColonialism, let me share a 2003 essay by Ukrainian historian @globalrhizome where he told you everything to know about r*ssia, Ukraine, colonialism but few listened
yes, it was in English. yes, it was published by a respected Western academic journal. i bet if 30 pages of 'Postcolonialism, Russia and Ukraine' became a classic of eastern european and r*ssian studies, this genocide wouldn't be happening
jstor.org/stable/25748122
jstor.org/stable/25748122
on r*ssian 'imperial innocence': 'in present-day Russia postcolonialism is perhaps the only major contemporary theoretical discourse that largely continues to be proudly and persistently ignored (old imperial habits die hard)" 
calling out r*ssian bs of always turning everything into an opportunity to decenter #RussianColonialism victims and, for that, coming up with a bizarre concept of being "self-colonized"
on trailblazing the concept of white-on-white colonialism and how it greatly expands our understanding of racist ideologies and shows us how oppressive regimes of enforced inferiority can thrive beyond the more mainstream ‘color paradigm’
on 'denationalization' of indigenous identities under colonial r*ssia and Ireland-Ukraine colonial parallels🔥
on Ukrainian 'identity alienation' under #RussianColonialism and how it reads identical to 'Manichean delirium' coined by Frantz Fanon, a prominent psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony Martinique
the other day i texted Dr. Chernetsky saying that if I had a chance to read his trailblazing essay at the time of the publication I am sure my life would be so much different and so much less time would be wasted in the trap of a colonized mind
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