I'm close to insanity from the stink of newspapers, and almost cry when I accidentally hear the radio or stumble upon the ugly face of a TV reporter ... It's strange, but deep down I have always been sure that we would definitely return to this vomit. Even in the most encouraging times, I knew that it was a mirage, a deceit, a delusion, and we would fall down with a sob to worship this rotting corpse. What sadness, what boredom! And how eagerly everyone strives for stupefaction, baseness, dumbness. So few of us were spiritually prepared for a worthy life, a life of mind and heart; most didn't have the energy to do so. People were terrified of the smallest whiff of freedom, its faint shadow. Now they have embraced the usual lies. The ban on meanness and betrayal has been lifted again; again - no moral prohibitions, no responsibility - childish cynicism, pagan innocence, Neanderthal morality.
Russian writer Yuri Nagibin wrote these words in his diary in 1968 when the USSR invaded Czechoslovakia. How scary is it that Nagibin could have been writing this verbatim today?
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English speakers usually don’t see inner Russian propaganda, but somebody helpfully translated for them this super clear article:
View at Medium.com
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These are people who are preparing the ground for an ethnic cleansing.
What was it that I heard about “never again”? It was all completely meaningless, it seems.
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” “never again”? It was all completely meaningless”
Especially since Germany has helped to finance this and has no intention of stopping financing it…
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Dear Clarissa, thank you for bringing this to your readers’ attention. I am left speechless. Tomorrow I will read it in class to my students.
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To put this in context for other readers, in the early 1960s there was a post -Stalinist relaxation of ideological strictures in the USSR. Its official name was “The Thaw.” GULAG prisoners were released. Stalin’s purges were condemned. Artists were allowed some freedom in creating less ideological art.
It all came crashing down in 1968 when the USSR invaded Czechoslovakia. It was followed by a massive ideological clampdown within the USSR. Artists like Nagibin were crushed. Such a small whiff of freedom, and over so fast! But the absolute majority of people were happy. Back to captivity, back to foreign conquests, back to domestic terror. What’s not to like?
And so it goes in circles.
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Наше посольство совместно с Георгий Логвинский провело вчера, не побоюсь этого слова, спецоперацию.
В тяжелейших условиях из общинного центра в Чернигове было эвакуировано более 250 человек, среди них несколько израильтян. Среди эвакуированных несколько человек в тяжелом состоянии, в том числе 8-летний ребёнок с осколочными ранениями в спине.
Колонна из 50 машин взъезжала в город под обстрелом. Ее сопровождали бойцы национальной полиции Украины и спецподразделения пограничной службы. Руководил операцией на месте Георгий Логвинский. На эвакуационном транспорте в город привезли гуманитарную помощь.
Вместе с Георгием Логвинским и его командой мы продолжаем программу эвакуации. Поддержу нам оказывают Еврейское Агентство Сохнут, Керен ха-Есод и десятки волонтеров по всей стране.
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Shocked:
via
https://sapojnik.livejournal.com/3816596.html
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Jesus.
Welcome to Russia.
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This is the best – listen to Russian representative in UN (in English). Only 20 seconds :
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A take not seen before:
“Как раз вчера задумался о том, что основной глубинной движущей силой этой войны как раз и является противостояние людей физического труда (преимущественно телезрителей) и людей, которые зарабатывают умственным трудом. Первые неосознанно пытаются вернуть свою в последнее время быстро сокращающуюся роль в обществе, которое всё меньше нуждается в физическом и неквалифицированном труде. Война и её последствия снова сдвинут социальный баланс в их пользу. Именно поэтому они не только не боятся, но даже и приветствуют в какой-то мере и разрушения и деградацию.”
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Beautifully written and hauntingly applicable today. I’ve already shared it with some people.
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