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It's a R@ssian tradition to commit massacres on religious holidays. This time, on Palm Sunday, 31 people were gone in Sumy(c) @ neivanmade

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This is one of the few posts with more reblogs than likes

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

What breaks my heart even more is the amount of people who were killed during the second strike, after they came to help the victims of the first one. russia kills innocent people and then kills some more for their kindness and empathy.

ukraine is incompatible with russian national myth that enjoys the exclusive claim to the history of rus and the city of kyiv. so it's about history then, you may think. well, no, in truth it has nothing to do with history. what happened in the early medieval past is completely irrelevant. the existence of ukraine today, with her culture, language, identity and the city of kyiv as her capital, neatly situated in the heartland of ukrainian classicism, populated with visual and conceptual ukrainian archetypes, is what incompatible with russian national myth. the real history of kyiv is largely irrelevant to how both ukrainians and russians see it, but if for us, it's just our capital, for russians, real or not real, it's where conceptually their state began, where orthodoxy came from, where writing came from. all roads lead to rome, first, second or third, but before that, they lead to kyiv. and yet it is occupied by a different ethnicity. how come? it prevents them from exploiting this land for the legitimisation of the russian empire as they constructed it

they have tried to accommodate it. in the empire, ukrainians did not exist. everyone knew we did. yet we didn't. we were russians with an asterisk leading to the bottom of the page where you could read *little so we could be distinguished on the census from the russians we already were. our language did not exist, and it was banned dozens of times precisely for not existing. ukraine, which was not a real place, was the most integral russian land, full of exotic cossack artifacts, southern landscapes and dark-haired native women, who, peculiarly, even pronounced the vowels differently

soviet union was the time when russians learned to say that ukrainians were a different people, but not to think it. "an unbreakable union of free republics, the great rus' has sealed forever". ukraine had to be contained, by historiographic concepts of three intrinsically connected eastern slavic peoples through ancient russian state, culture and language, that came to change imperial doctrine of the triune nation; by our modern borders to which the borders of our identity receded shortly after 1926 census, to cut some edges and undo the results of widespread settlerism across eurasia for which russians used us in the time when we did not exist; by russification for which, unlike the empire, soviet union had actual capabilities

they could never leave us alone. and all that came with no respect, but with the sense of entitlement to everything we possess. there has never been a moment, since at least the 18th century, when russians looked at ukraine and saw anything other than a glorified province, an exotic appendage, an amusement park full of stock characters who perform their small-town culture "for" or "in spite of" russians, but never to themselves. it is so ingrained into their ideology, that it is almost uncanny to meet a russian who consistently uses "ukrainian" instead of a slur. to mention any sense of equality would be laughable

but even that is not enough. a provincialised, firmly colonised in the past and the present ukraine is not a solution to russian nationalism, it's a palliative. because the fantasy of ukraine being a safe russia's subaltern will always be overpowered by the reality of ukraine being fundamentally different. they can't make us russian. even when they succeed, they fail. they have to exterminate us. the times when russians were truly honest about us being foreign to them, calling us, maybe in awe, maybe in fear, "cherkassy", that is circassians, are long behind us, but maybe recoverable in the new context of russian colonisation of caucasus and new solidarities it created

i want to believe that this is the last russo-ukrainian war, but while we are fighting, i implore people to remember about one article, published by a russian state-owned news agency on april 3, 2022, "what russia should do with ukraine", one of the most lucid statement of the russian ideology. to you, of course, to us, it's a daily experience. it tells in no uncertain terms that ukrainians are nazis not because they exhibit nazi ideology, but because they are ukrainian. it calls for complete destruction of ukraine, the name "ukraine" itself, because the existence of it "inevitably leads to nazism". it says that ukrainians, who must become russian, must also experience war "to atone their historical guilt". even in their wildest genocide dreams, they still can't help but realise that we are not actually russian. they're not stupid, as soothing as this though can be, they know what they're doing very well. and yet they can't see the main and only flaw

and i want to add, that none of it was inevitable. it only seems inevitable if you believe that russian imperialism is natural and not manufactured, something people bleat about as the pinnacle of russophobia, unable to simply say that it's stupid. russia could have not been an empire, russia could have changed, russia still can change. will it? the answer is as irrelevant as the real history russia cannibalised to become the monstrosity it is today and destroy my life. no matter. i know what ukraine should do with russia. defeat it, for the sake of ourselves and all before us who could not

Just remembered a Ukrainian teenager who was killed 2 years ago by a russian missile while he was running to let his elderly neighbors know about an air raid. Killed for having compassion for his community. For being kind.

Crying over this tiny Ukrainian flag amidst ruins after russian strike.

It needs to be more taboo for people to use traditional marxist symbolism, especially the kinds of symbols associated with the USSR.

The kinds of human rights abuses that mainstream Marxism engaged in are horrific, and not worthy of glorification.

The outright denial of Marxist atrocities common on the far left is shocking and astounding.

This is what "ordinary russians" have to say about today's terrorist attack in Sumy.

In case you're in doubt: yes, that's really what they say about Ukrainians in their telegram channels, VK groups, etc. It's a terrible time to know the russian language and understand all of it in its original form.

today it's palm sunday in ukraine and russians killed 21 ukrainians in the city centre of sumy with a double ballistic missile strike (second missile arrived as people rushed to help), and russians are celebrating with the photos of pigs and smiles and all the usual things they do. yesterday ukrainians were outraged by the words of a russian anti-putin liberal kara-murza in the french senate who said that for russians it is psychologically hard to kill ukrainians because we are one people which is why russia employs buryats to kill us. those monstrous 600 thousand buryats 100 million russians should cry and beg to kill us

34 dead including 2 children, 117 injured including 15 children.

yes, reposting my own tweet on here but im too invested in showing what cruel creatures russians really are

I wish my tumblr blog were filled with my art rather than posts about russian atrocities commited in my country but I barely have motivation to draw thanks to russia and I just can't be silent when my country is being destroyed and people are murdered every day

But also I'm tired of feeling like nobody outside of Ukraine cares and like I'm screaming into the void

The russians have hit the very centre of the city of Sumy, in broad daylight on Palm Sunday, just as it was filled with crowds of people.

The city mayor reports there are a lot of dead and wounded.

One of the missiles reportedly hit a trolleybus full of people

Reports of more than 20 people killed already.

And of course, a double tap, too

The classic features of that mysterious russian soul: to kill as many as possible and to use the very concepts of humanity and compassion against the people expressing it.

Russian culture is exactly this. This is what it's about. This is what Pushkin and Lermontov praised enthusiastically, this is what Dostoyevsky kept making up excuses for, this is what Tolstoy was trying to mask. Remember it next time you nominate Yura Borisov, Alexander Ovechkin or some other shit like them for your cool cultural/sports non-political awards. This is what you all support.

This attack on Sumy on 13 April comes 8 days after another broad daylight attack on Kryvih Rih, on Saturday 5 April 2025; which killed 20 people including 9 children at a playground.

I'm going to start dating my posts and replies in relation to this war so that years from now, when reblogs cross people's dashes, there is a sense of chronology and the individual atrocities do not blur into one another. After more than three years of this, I get it - all those foreign place names, smoking buildings and bodies in the street start to look the same - but that's what russia wants, for people to just normalise Ukraine as a place where mass murder just happens, it's unfortunate but this is the natural outcome of war, you don't have the energy to pay attention anymore. All the better for them to keep on pressuring for sanctions to be lifted, aid to Ukraine to cease, and the invasion to continue. Hold out a little longer, and those meddling foreigners trying to help Ukraine hold off a nuclear power will have lost all sense of reference to prosecute war criminals too.

I get that not everyone has the money or energy to respond to every outrage, but if there's anything Tumblr is good at, it's keeping score.

13 April 2025, Sumy, 21 dead, number may rise.

A reminder. It's a state of death and destruction.

today it's palm sunday in ukraine and russians killed 21 ukrainians in the city centre of sumy with a double ballistic missile strike (second missile arrived as people rushed to help), and russians are celebrating with the photos of pigs and smiles and all the usual things they do. yesterday ukrainians were outraged by the words of a russian anti-putin liberal kara-murza in the french senate who said that for russians it is psychologically hard to kill ukrainians because we are one people which is why russia employs buryats to kill us. those monstrous 600 thousand buryats 100 million russians should cry and beg to kill us

Sumy, Ukraine right now after russian strike 💔

City centre was hit with cluster bombs during busy hours to cause as much damage as possible.

The russians have hit the very centre of the city of Sumy, in broad daylight on Palm Sunday, just as it was filled with crowds of people.

The city mayor reports there are a lot of dead and wounded.

One of the missiles reportedly hit a trolleybus full of people

Reports of more than 20 people killed already.

And of course, a double tap, too

The classic features of that mysterious russian soul: to kill as many as possible and to use the very concepts of humanity and compassion against the people expressing it.

Russian culture is exactly this. This is what it's about. This is what Pushkin and Lermontov praised enthusiastically, this is what Dostoyevsky kept making up excuses for, this is what Tolstoy was trying to mask. Remember it next time you nominate Yura Borisov, Alexander Ovechkin or some other shit like them for you cool cultural/sports non-political awards. This is what you all support.