Berezovsky’s Monster:
How the man who made Putin paid for it with his life.

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Russia 1999: Russia was in crisis. President Yeltsin was unpopular and in poor health. The economy was unstable, and the nation still hadn't recovered from its defeat in the Chechen War. Oligarchs held major influence over politics, business, and the media.

Here’s what Voltaire, one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment, had to say about Ukraine as a nation in 1731, in Book Four of "Histoire de Charles XII", page 85:

(Translated from the original French)

A thread 🧵 "Ukraine has always aspired to be free, but surrounded by Muscovy, the Ottoman Empire, and Poland, it was forced to seek a protector and thus, inevitably, a master."

How a single treaty disproves 3 Kremlin myths: The Pereiaslav Agreement (1654)

❌️Muscovy was known as "Russia" even before Peter I

❌️Ukrainians wanted to "reunite" with Muscovy

❌️Ukrainian and Russian were mutually intelligible before modern Ukr. nationalism

A thread🧵 What was the Pereiaslav Agreement? In 1654, the Cossack Hetmanate, led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky, negotiated with Tsar Alexis of Muscovy. The goal was a mutual defense pact: the Hetmanate would swear allegiance to the Tsar in exchange for guarantees of Ukrainian autonomy.

How Rusyns/Ruthenians became Ukrainians, and Muscovites became Russians:

An argument for the historical continuity of Rus' through Kyiv—not Moscow.

A thread🧵 To begin with, what were the historical lands of Rus'?

Originally, Rus' centered around Kyiv. When people from other principalities like Novgorod said “I’m going to Rus',” they meant Kyiv and the lands surrounding Kyiv. Kyiv, Chernihiv, Pereiaslav— those were the core Rus' lands

In 2022 Russia started heavily investing into rebuilding Mariupol and turning it into a "Russian paradise". Since then, they've been encouraging Russian businesses and citizens to move there.

A little thread🧵 on Russian settler colonialism in Mariupol: Before the invasion, Mariupol had nearly 450,000 residents. Today only an estimated 15% of original inhabitants remain. Mostly the elderly or unable to flee. The rest were killed, deported, or displaced. This set the stage for Russia's colonization plans.

The Russian normalization of death: the story of a Mariupol supermarket.

Once a place for groceries, then a corpse dump where the dead were left to rot for months.
In 2023, it reopened festively. Balloons. Discounts. Music.
All traces of the past erased.

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In 2022, during the siege of Mariupol, Russian forces turned the “Shchyryi Kum” supermarket into a makeshift morgue.
The Corpses dumped there like garbage. The walls covered in 'Z' slogans.

This continued for several month after the siege, the bodies left rotting inside.

Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny must be one of the most underated military leaders in history

You will definitely be suprised at the things he managed accomplished only in the short time period between 1615 and 1621:

- Conducted several major raids on major Ottoman cities and in 1615 and 1616, he even raided ISTANBUL the largest city in Europe at the time, only using small boats called "Chaikas", against the Ottoman Navy which was one of the strongest. His men even entered the Sultan's palace

As another Holodomor Rememberence Day approaches, I want to spread awareness to the fact that @nytimes journalist Walter Duranty still hasn't been stripped of his 1932 Pulitzer prize, he got for spreading Soviet propaganda to the West and covering-up the death of millions. Joseph Stalin himself praised Duranty on Christmas Day of 1933: "You have done a good job in your reporting of the USSR (...) you try to tell the truth about our country (...) I might say you bet on our horse to win when others said it had no chance"

As Holodomor Rememberence Day is coming up soon, I want to share some of the posts I made on the topic, In hopes it may give you some insight into the deep Trauma Moscow has inflicted onto the Ukrainian nation.

1. Recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian Nation

https://twitter.com/2Russophobic4u/status/1684876997095522304?t=YQgcDMG2goyeZCLkrTmDRw&s=19

Ukrainian cuisine. Let's talk about it and why and how it's still in a colonized state, why it's far from reaching it's full potential and why many Ukrainians settle for mediocre asian food and below average Kebap, instead of exploring/enjoying the depths of their own cuisine. How is it in a "colonized" state you ask?

Well, I think it's pretty obvious. Many russified names, recepies and culinary history is still being upheld by modern day Ukraine.

Why? Primarily due to the Soviet Union and its devastating effects on Ukrainian culture.

Thread on the Ryazan incident (russia) in 1999, where FSB agents planted a bomb in an apartment building, just to claim that it was all just a "training exercise" two days later, after agents got arrested by the police🧵 1/9 This incident occurred a few days after the latest apartment bombing in Volgodonsk (17 deaths), that was directly attributed to Chechens and resulted in air bombings of Grozny and later the Second Chechen War.
Chechen authorities always denied those claims.
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Yeah, so there's probably going to be a lot of Anti-Ukraine propaganda posts about the May 2nd 2014 Odesa Clashes today, so let me freshen up your memory on what happened real quick: > russia had similar plans for Odesa as they had for Donetsk
> They call for a "Odesa People's Republic"
> They plan on capturing government buildings and on March 3rd they already tried seizing the Odesa Council Building and replaced the Ukrainian flag with a russian flag there

If you still believe that the Soviets hated Hitler due to the Holocaust, I have to inform you that you're mistaken. For them the Holocaust was very low on the list of reasons to hate the Nazis. Don't believe me? Let me tell you the story of a ravine in Kyiv called Babyn Yar. The Babyn Yar ravine was the site of one of the worst Nazi massacres in WW2, where they killed 33,771 Jews on 29-30 September of 1941 and an additional 100 000 people of all "Untermensch" ethnicities until 1944.

Here are some images of the Baturyn architectural and memorial complex in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.
What today looks like a regular historic site, was the location of one of the most brutal russian massacres against Ukrainians in history. During the Great Northern War of 1700-1721, which led to the creation of the Russian Empire, then Hetman Ivan Mazepa decided to join the Swedes against Muscovy in reaction to Moscow's unwillingness to abide by the Treaty of Pereiaslav and meddling in Cossack affairs.

According to the 1926 all-Soviet census 55%-67,5% (depending on definition) of the Kuban Region's (today part of russia) population identified as Ukrainians. In 2021 only 0,5% identified as such.
So what happened? In short: What happened is that Moscow conducted another one of its ethnic cleansing and russification operations. One of its most severe.

Clinton and Yeltsin toasting in May of of 1995, one month after the Samashki massacre, where russians brutally murdered over 300 civilians between April 7th and 8th of 1995, after Chechen forces left the village according to an ultimatum by russian Generals. Many such massacres conducted by the russian federation were mostly ignored around the world and are still barely known. Instead of the perpetrators being punished, they were rewarded by their government and their government in turn was economically supported by the West.

Hey, @TheAcademy!
This is who you gave the award to, instead of a documentary about the victims of russia's genocide in Ukraine: A thread

Retweet so they can see what they've done. A man who co-founded a xenophobic ethnonationalist movement and referred to Immigrants and Minorities as "rodents" and "cockroaches":

Here's a translation of Litvinenko's (former FSB officer) article about Putin titled "Kremlin Chikatilo" (Chikatilo was a serial murderer, rapist and pedophile). He published it 4 ½ months before being assassinated by orders of the man himself, Vladimir Putin.🧵 "Kremlin Chikatilo":

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke informally with tourists visiting the Kremlin. He was on a walk from the Grand Kremlin Palace to his residence through Sobornaya and Ivanovskaya Squares. On the way there, he decided to stop and talk to the tourists.

.@SocDoneLeft, supposedly an Ukraine supporter, obviously hasn't being reading up on Azov, blindly believing Kremlin propaganda. He went as far as to wish for their deaths.
Let me clear this somehow still very controversial topic up for all you uninformed people: 🧵 When russia started it's war in the Donbas in 2014 the ukrainian army wasn't well prepared for combat, so a lot of volunteer battalions were formed in order to deter the agressor. Azov consisted mostly of volunteers from the football fan community in the very beginning.

Meet former German General and Merkel consultant Erich Vad. One of the SILLIEST clowns we have witnessed so far:
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> In February he said it's absolutely pointless to deliver weapons, because due to Russia's modern military technology Ukraine would fall in a matter of days. 2/4
> Weeks later he strongly advised against weapon shipments again, because it "would arrive too late".

> A few months into the war he called for negotiations in which Ukraine should NOT participate, because he sees it as a more of a conflict between Russia and the US.

Happy 70th Birthday to Vladimir Putin! I made a little 🧵 just to celebrate all of your great achievements as the leader of Russia! First of we see an image that is very symbolic for the beginning of Putin's career. The continuation of Russia's genocide of the "terrorist" Chechens who were DEFINITELY responsible for the Ryazan Bombings..