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@ElenaTarasiuk
Nov 6 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
In 2024, Ukraine topped the rating of most depressed countries. The US came 2nd. Their collective depression resulted in Trump being elected into office. I didn't find a proper depression rate for 2025. Instead, I have some fresh data from Ukrainian sociology🧵 Image
27% of Ukrainians are currently experiencing distress, compared to 12% in 2021-2022. This is 1 in 4 people. Distress means risks to mental and physical health. People in distress are so overwhelmed that it affects their lives.
In 2025, the mood of Ukrainians slightly improved if compared to 2024. Even despite the ongoing war. The main reason for improvement is psychological adaptation to new reality.
75% Ukrainians believe in victory: 42% ‘absolutely’ believe and another 33% ‘rather believe.’
Surprisingly, Ukrainians rated the economy higher than before the war. Right now, the average rating is 3.9 out of 10. The logic is, ‘If the economy was that weak, we'd already have ration cards and be starving.’

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Aug 21
Here’s my today's trip into one of the Russian Telegram chats where politics is discussed. To get the mood. You are welcome to gaze into this corner of mysterious Russia with me. Nothing offensive. No violent vatniks. Only ordinary people🧵 Image
Revolutions don’t work. Look at Iran. Protests don’t work. Democracy doesn’t work. Look at Europe. Ursula is corrupt. Somehow Canada popped up in a conversation as corrupt too. My guess is there are Russian relocants to Canada in that chat.
They are small people. Higher-ups make all decisions. They can do nothing. If they are asked uncomfortable political questions, they boast how they respond with silence. I get a heavy, “swampy” feeling from them. No wonder the swamps are used as a metaphor for Russia as a whole.
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Jul 21
When I claim that Russia is a death cult, I take into account this. Russian casualties grow steadily. If Russia were a normal country, it could have been the graph of labor and capital growth. "Why is human life so cheap in Russia?" is the question to historians and economists🧵 Image
But, surely, poverty can't be solely blamed. There are much poorer countries with fewer growth opportunities where human life is nowhere as expendable. There are other autocracies around the world where 1/10 of such proportional losses will be seen as horrendous.
"A single middling Russian missile, Iskander, costs $3 million per unit. Under the current system of payouts for Russian troops lost in action, a single Iskander rocket equates to the lives of 263 dead Russian soldiers. Quite a deal." Tomasz Kamusella, 2023.
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Jun 13
Research confirms it: people are really getting dumber. And number. Politicians are getting dumber and dumber, too. Which is to be expected. But when you look at certain political leaders of the world, it is clear, isn’t it? 🧵
Borowitz, an American humorist, defines three stages of ignorance: ridicule, acceptance, celebration. G.W. Bush’s blunders opened the era of stupidity acceptance, according to him. Watching him and Sarah Palin made Americans think, “Alright, politicians can be stupid”.
When it comes to Trump a celebration of ignorance is underway. America’s 47th president treats politics like a dumb spectator sport. His team of misfits, that so reminds me of controversial human zoo exhibitions, do not disappoint, adding their bits to a clown show.
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May 18
On this day, in 1944, Soviets began the operation of "liberating" Crimea from its indigenous population. Over 190,000 Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea in three days. Same year, more than 40,000 Bulgarians, Armenians, Greeks, Turks and Roma were deported from Crimea 🧵 Image
The long journey to remote corners of the USSR lasted 2-3 weeks. On the way, thousands died of starvation and diseases, left without food, water and medical care.
About 9,000 Crimean Tatar soldiers and officers serving in the Soviet army were sent to special settlements or labour camps as soon as World War II ended.
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Feb 24
Strange to hear about anti-war Russians when the first thing many Ukrainians did was contact their relatives in Russia in the early morning of February 24, 2022, only to get openly euphoric reactions, or shocked yet cautiously euphoric. Devastated ones were very rare🧵 Image
Euphoric or patronizing relatives from Russia: “we will liberate you”, “don’t worry, we just need to kill all ‘banderas’ and then there will be peace”, “this is no war, don’t lie” and other masterpieces of Russian twisted thinking.
My university friend told me that her husband’s uncle didn’t wait until they contacted him. He called them first thing in the morning to scream into the receiver, “Now you will get what you deserve!”. That man grew up in the Ukrainian village, for the record.
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Jan 18
This orange spot on the map is approximately what constitutes Siberia. The region Russia began colonizing back in 1581.

In today’s Siberia, the descendants of colonizers are getting worried about the war with Ukraine. Apparently, it took them almost 3 years to come to this 🧵 Image
Russia’s size is its advantage. Russians know it very well. The Siberians interviewed by a Russian paper were sure they were unreachable. That is, until Ukraine started attacking Russia with drones. Ukrainian drones reached at least 25 regions, so even Siberia started to worry.
“It might sound egocentric, but we are thinking about ourselves and our loved ones first and foremost,” shared an anonymous woman, 30 y.o, “so I felt sorry for people [from Kursk ], then I moved on. But then, I heard the news on long-range missiles and I became really scared.”
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