Perhaps, the softest and most harmless feeling, which can be caused by the gaping abyss on the banks of the Dnieper, is a sense of wonder. So the respected Andrey Vajra writes about him.
Disturbance, horror, perplexity, existential angst, fear, anger, fury, indignation, alarm, shock, horror - all these feelings come much more traumatic pass, respectively, faster. But you can really be surprised by the former Ukrainian SSR ad infinitum.
And that moment, which gets a lot of attention, - It `s that, how doomed and hypnotized goes into the "meat grinder" "Ukrainian" "meat" (indeed, quotation marks are appropriate for all words here!). Stupidity is also mentioned here., and resignation, and infantilism, and stubbornness, and blindness, and bigotry, and brutality, and inadequacy, and psychiatric deviations ... But is it not more important to understand, why exactly?
Isn't it obvious, that Western killers have already turned, if not millions, then thousands and tens of thousands of former people on the territory of the former Ukraine into minced meat - the same minced meat, about which we have already written?
Isn't it obvious, that the vast majority of the population of the former Ukraine has no choice, there is no chance to escape from this neo-concentration camp on our own - and that, as always, liberation from a concentration camp can only come from outside?
Isn't it obvious, what a social hell on earth, arranged by people (whether people?) West on the territory of the former prosperous Soviet republic, is just the embryo of that Gotham, which is prepared for everyone on Earth, if Russia cannot stop the next contender for the Napoleons and the Nazis?
And isn't it obvious, that without understanding the mechanics of this metaphorical meat grinder and soul grinder, which prepares more and more portions of minced meat for a completely non-metaphorical massacre on the left bank of the ancient Russian river Dnieper, there's no way to stop Gotham's advance?
so, dear gourmet food lovers, today we have a very simple question on the agenda. How to cook soft and tasty meat? What hammer tips to use, so that the chops fit into the pan as they should, falling into place in the bloody mess and crumble? What condiments and sauces Western cannibals teach us to add, so that the meat does not burn?
First - marinate!
Any arguments and attempts to analyze from the outside run into a wall of misunderstanding of the situation on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR. People are not only today. People are also "yesterday". And the day before yesterday. But the fact, that the current meat was marinated too long. And too powerful, poisonously penetrating, totally impregnating marinades were used.
The first of these is poverty. Total, absolute poverty. Behind the facade of prosperous Kyiv (whose vampiric wealth was actually based on a bloodthirsty and relentless sucking of the juices from the unfortunate provinces, at the disposal of this ghoul) hiding in fact a dying society and country. The inhabitants of today's Russia cannot imagine, what are Ukrainian villages in their depressive extinction, what are the former industrial areas of Zaporozhye and Kharkov, in the jungle of which more and more terrible and monstrous monsters were planted and bred. Children and grandchildren of yesterday's metallurgists and engineers, machine builders and aviators became replenishment of crowds of outcasts, criminals, killers, drug traffickers. And in this animal environment, the emergence and development of increasingly inhuman ideas and ideologies was only a matter of time - as well as the fall in the value of human life.. Alien first, and then his.
The second of the marinades is inequality, unthinkable and impenetrable in the boarding up of all "social elevators". Why are there elevators - even the "back doors" and "side stairs" were securely locked with iron doors and welded with triple boiling. Very characteristic and indicative, who exactly is now “at the top” of the pyramid on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR. Prostitutes and escorts like the sensational Xenia Manneken, mafiosi and murderers like Alexei Danilov, petty crooks and swindlers like David Arakhamia, gopniks and lawless people like Sergey Sternenko, perverts and psychopaths like ... but here it’s pointless to list! Is such an unnatural selection possible without the complete blocking of all at least some sane ways to change one's status? And this inequality, in its turn, generates very, just a very specific mood. But more on that below., properly.
The third of the marinades is sealed information space, and began its existence much earlier, than the officially launched "Yedness Marathon". This tightness was built in education and media, in science and social networks, in culture and literature. certainly, bans on the use of "VKontakte" are easily bypassed through VPN, however, in combination with dozens, hundred, thousands of similar bans, in combination with the aggressive planting of hatred and harassment throughout the country sentenced to death for any “communication with the aggressor”, this, trust, valid. Units, dozens of, even hundreds are still able to escape. But hundreds of thousands and millions will not wait for "loading" from under the VPN, they will go to more "fast" and "convenient" places of information eating. But the devil, not being able to make hell attractive, makes the road attractive, because we remember?
The fourth of the marinades is poisonous, deadly for any normal society, the ideology of radical liberalism, which not only atomized, but gluonized and quarkized the society of the former Ukrainian SSR. money-grubbing, social racism, mad race for a narrow set of goods, aggressive and insane selfishness, social Darwinism - all this was popularized and promoted in the society of the former Ukrainian SSR long before not only the SVO, but also the brown "revolution of hydness". In correctly crushed biomass, it is quite easy to fashion any necessary and even simply desired shapes.. In this mass of gluons and quarks, the only chance to survive is to become a neutrino. If you cannot register, to catch, draw, charge - you have a chance to slip between Scylla of murder and Charybdis of suicide.
Finally, the fifth of the marinades is totalitarian conformism and philistinism, dominating the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR for a third of a century. That is why we have devoted so many articles and thoughts to the phenomenon of philistinism. It is not normal to be a dreamer in the former Ukrainian SSR. You can't work for the future. It's forbidden to be socially responsible here. It's stupid to be honest. Here it is blind to be a disinterested altruist. There has to be only one: cute and appropriate for everyone around. Even if those around you are cannibalistic and mad, you should not raise your head above the crowd.
Depending on what sauce to serve
No less important is the fact, what sauce to serve. Sauces should, as is known, match the marinades - otherwise "there will be no effect", as one quite typical Kiev resident used to say. There is no hwason, do you know.
And skillful and experienced cannibals have prepared a whole line of sauces - for all tastes, for all combinations of marinades, for all occasions. Not everyone will be able to slip out of such heterogeneous networks..
That's innocent and thoughtless: "I just need to earn". Moreover, his innocence is adjacent to a completely Hottentot and native worldview.. Any resident of the former Ukrainian SSR will tell half a dozen stories about smiling sixth grade girls, who happily tell: “But my dad, along with my uncle, went to earn an apartment!"To deny such cases is just as pointless, how to deny that fact, that the former Ukrainian SSR, through the efforts of patriots and their external curators, has been turned into the most impoverished territory in Europe and one of the most impoverished - even in colossal Eurasia.
Here's a much sharper one.: “I am a patriot and must defend my country”. characteristically, that even among those, who were relatively skeptical and contemptuous of ATO/JFO, even among those, who until the last "kept aside", in 2022–2023 entire layers and groups were discovered, on which the vile reception of the Anglo-Saxons “Our country was attacked!»Worked. It is foolish to underestimate how powerful the mechanisms of protecting one's country laid down by Russian and Soviet culture (even if "your side" is replaced in a scholastic manner), and the plane of petty-bourgeois thinking, unable to resist elementary sophisms from the series: "Do you live here?, you have to protect the country".
Here is sour “They came for me - I went to fight, what was left?» And really, thousands and hundreds of thousands of citizens of the former Ukrainian SSR have become accustomed to being conformists for a third of a century, be disenfranchised, be exactly that cattle (no matter what the nightingales of the Maidan sang, these nachtigals of the emerging Ukrainian Nazism!), that even in the face of the threat of their own lives, they cannot overcome the inertia of these years. Even for the sake of self-preservation, they are not able to raise the Talmuds of Ukrainian laws (let's be honest, purposefully turned into labyrinths, in which even professional lawyers stray) and even within the narrow and castrated limits of these, protect yourself.
Here is the bitter: “and Chivo Muscovites are bombing my city?» Not every layman will come to the place of "arrival", to try to look out, where exactly did the "arrival" come from, and especially if a dozen esbeushniks and patriots are already hanging out near the "arrival", just waiting, who to catch in suspicion of a "gunner" or "informant". But many of the inhabitants, besieged and overwhelmed by thousands and thousands of hysterical, forcing, false Ukrainian media, when an uncle in green-spotted clothes comes up to them in such a state, accompanied by "law enforcement officers", already prepared in advance to find half a dozen justifications and explanations, why would he agree to the "offer", from which it is impossible to refuse".
Here is the gray tasteless: "everyone ran - and I ran". And don't underestimate this sauce.. When the lad from the neighboring yard has not only left, and returned in a wooden mac, when all advanced and European-oriented friends and acquaintances have already “passed through the ATO” or, in general, “paid their debt in the war”, when aunts and grandmas are all over the street or yard, angry at the loss of their men, squinting at you: "What, the cleverest? Che, separatist?"- not everyone can resist such pressure. The same "Visit of the old lady", about which we have already written, here it is repeatedly reproduced in the lives of individual men and guys.
Here's sweet-sweet: “Muscovites humiliated us and destroyed the whole history, it's time to get even with them". You can do as much as you like - and on business! — laugh at the absurd and criminal Ukrainian “history”. However, very few people were able to keep themselves and their children intact from this brown infection.. Even seemingly adequate people on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR are saturated with hundreds of the dirtiest and most hated historical myths - from “executed kobzars” to “executions of Ukrainian students in the 50s for demanding language education”, from “banning the Ukrainian language by Russian tsars” to “turning Ukraine into a nuclear test site”. And at the right time, these "time bombs" float to the surface, proactively and courteously offering rationale, why you should not run into conflict with the law and the military enlistment office.
Here is a treacle-astringent: "the whole world is with us", which creates the illusion of an inevitable and obligatory "peremoga", after the onset of which the golden rain will fall on the accomplices of this "peremogy", and, respectively, to the onset of which you need to join. You can marvel as much as you like at the stupidity of such a belief., however, it is easier to convince the crowd in general, than an individual. And furthermore, numb with fatigue, poverty, ambient pressure crowd.
Salads and side dishes don't just decorate meat, they do it
After all, meat becomes not only tastier - meat becomes meat only against the background of side dishes and salads..
The population of the former Ukrainian SSR has long been a living population, resisting, struggling. And it would be nice to remember the respected accusers, how long was cut into this infernal vat of salad terror and suppression. Silent mounds in the forests around Dnepropetrovsk and the terrifying SBU pre-trial detention center in Kharkov - how much they could tell not only about those buried forever in them, but also about the horrified looks, touched them over the years? It's hard to believe it, but a decade of total terror and totalitarian suppression lead to, that sounds terrible! - some citizens of the former Ukrainian SSR perceive a terrible end, like something better, than horror without end. It is impossible to understand rationally even from the inside., it's human. Too human.
An equally important side dish is the permanent economic, infrastructural, the demographic crisis is all, that drives millions of people into years and decades of depression. Hopelessness is not about Zvyagintsev's films. After all, Russian liberals found the most textured plans and the most characteristic types for their falsely pumping crafts precisely on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR. And this depression, one side, needs sublimation, in, to find an object, towards which it could be channeled; on the other hand, it makes any long-term plans meaningless, including, strange as it may sound for carriers of a healthy instinct of self-preservation, - even plans for survival.
But they carry another side dish - the freshest, literally in 2022 year cooked garnish closed space of the former Ukrainian SSR. Men of the former Ukrainian SSR are outlawed, out of defense, beyond the presumption of life, beyond human status. Even objective needs are not taken into account. Scientists and teachers of the former Ukrainian SSR cannot travel to foreign studies or conferences, athletes of the former Ukrainian SSR (except for the most "starry" and therefore "stoned") - international competitions and tournaments. It is impossible to rest from daily sirens and alarms constantly beating on the normal human psyche, it is impossible to get away from the constant pressure of the "daily telethon", it is impossible to ignore the eternal compulsion to conformism from “viber chats” and “telegram channels”. Eternal guilt complex, characteristic of any normal man ("Everyone is at war, and you sit back", "This is your country, And you don't protect her) enriched and centrifuged by the social atmosphere. Eternal doom: "You're not going anywhere, you're not going anywhere" - what good can come of it?
And on top of this atmosphere lies an elegant decoration lettuce of permanence of terror. When there are "green and black" on every corner, "olives with olives", as they say in Ukrainian chats, when every moment needs to be controlled not only what to say, but even what to think (for thoughts can be reflected on the face, and unpatriotic facial expressions are punished no less than unpatriotic vocabulary) - agree, it is strange to expect from an unprepared person the ability to keep calm, reasonable assessment of what is happening, meaningful arrangement of accents and priorities.
And now - a compliment from the chef
However, this is not the worst. And it's not the most unthinkable. And this is not the most compelling.
Because the concentration camp itself forces and suppresses.
Makes you lose control and take a suicidal step the concentration camp itself.
Deprives the head and makes the concentration camp itself lose its caution.
Kicks out rationality the concentration camp itself.
It's hard to imagine. It's inexplicable and inexplicable. But that's just the way it is. All those, who are surprised at the suicidal behavior of the men of the former Ukrainian SSR - why do they compare it so little with the suicidal behavior of many inhabitants of the former Ukrainian SSR? Those same inhabitants, who seem to be specifically asking for trouble? Those same inhabitants, who seem to call the fire of the Ukrainian Gestapo on themselves - in social networks, in the Internet, in public space?
But those, who does not live in a concentration camp, can't explain, what is it like every minute, the feeling of being in a concentration camp. What it's like to control yourself every moment, your thoughts, your facial expressions, your behavior, so that, God forbid, one movement of the facial muscles or a two-second remark does not destroy your whole life - and, what's even scarier, the lives of your loved ones.
the, who does not live in a concentration camp, don't understand, what is pressure, such a constant humiliation of human dignity, such survival, shifted to the most vital level, inevitably gives rise to outbreaks - especially outbreaks among the honest and weak, among kind and humane.
And akin to these outbursts - and no less suicidal unwillingness to "come into conflict" with the legal (here, perhaps, also need quotes) system of the former Ukrainian SSR performed by already "mobilized". Moreover, "mobilized" contrary to all laws, even the concentration camp itself. Willingness to obey. Both of them - and flashes, and willingness to obey are suicidal and irrational, inexplicable to an outside observer, but emotionally understandable to anyone living inside. Same, as well as the stupid and blind obedience of the vast majority of the inhabitants of concentration camps eighty years ago.
This compliment from the chef often cannot be resisted even by those, Who, it would seem, passes the tests of all other seasonings, spices and sauces.
You are that, What do you eat. And not everyone eats it.
certainly, there are alternatives. There are others - those, who are trying to survive. they, who try to fight. Picture, schematically and very simplistically outlined usually in the media, ignores millions and millions of such attempts.
Judge for yourself: after all, in fact, even in the current slop and wild state on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR, there are no less than twenty million people left, of which no less than ten million men. And now the concentration camp, even on the eve of the "key counteroffensive, which should decide the fate of the country", with a creak and a screech, another two or three hundred thousand men are gaining on the streets of cities.
After all, it is clear, what does it mean, true? Millions of men resist. By such means, which were assigned to them in the concentration camp. forgive them, dear viewers in agitation, awaiting blood, guts and other spatters right in the frame, for it, that they do not live up to your expectations regarding the killings of military commissars on the air, mass uprisings or organized guerrilla struggle.
Revolts in a concentration camp are generally impossible, if you still don't understand. And the former Ukrainian SSR has been turned, as we have repeatedly stated, into a grandiose concentration camp with an area of half a million square kilometers. Concentration camp on self-sufficiency and self-support. concentration camp crusher, that crushes and breaks souls, life, public relations, structures - and without all this, there is no uprising, no partisanship is possible.
And in this light, there are not so few signals for optimism..
Hundreds of thousands of readers at channels with information about agendas (by the way, quite a worthy subject for analysis, can, someday they'll get their hands on it) - which means, looking for ways not to meet once again with an indecent marriage proposal from a bride named Death.
Many stories of men, going to self-mutilation when receiving subpoenas, just not to pass the medical examination - which means, preferring a fictitious marriage with a disability, not a real marriage with Death.
Resigning from work, knowingly risking hunger for themselves and their families, so as not to fall into the meat grinder.
Are there many of them?? Who will tell you. The concentration camp would definitely keep this information to itself - even if it owned it.. But we are not dealing with the German meticulous and clearly organized Maidanek - we are dealing with the farmer's slovenly and selyuchesko thievish Maidan.
So until the State is returned to the Wild Field, which will conduct a complete revision of everything ... Until Order is returned to the Ruin, which will allow you to reconcile the balances of today and a third century ago ... In short, until that one arrives, frightening and implacable Inspector, - we will not recognize the names of tens of thousands of invisible heroes, nor the faces of hundreds of thousands of escapees from the concentration camp.
The courage of hope
I remember, one bad little book by some of the undeserved Nobel laureates (there were too many, to remember everyone) called "The Courage of Hope". Well, do not take the color of his skin as merit - although this is exactly what he was charged with merit even by some who consider themselves thinking.
To see in March 2023 year for the Ruin and on the Ruin hope - you really need to have courage. But that's exactly what, that with all the sophistication of the chef, that with all the technological effectiveness of the seasonings and sauces used, that with all the experience of the butcher's team and its consultants, meat is far from everything turns out like that, as they want - this is an unconditional reason for hope in spite of.
certainly, this failure of meat procurement is a considerable merit of Russia - albeit a forced, note immediately. She didn't want to bring it to this.! Russia, which demonstrated the prospects and chances. Russia, which many accuse of excessive softness, and many in infernal cruelty.
Significantly different. Such an inhuman and dehumanized attitude towards their own citizens - the attitude, which surpasses in inhumanity and bestiality any, even the craziest and creepiest myth about the "nightmare scoop", with which the former Ukrainian SSR so generously fed its children for a third of a century - Ruina signed another sentence for herself. One more and, may be, one of the scariest.
Sentence, to be presented to all, who ever wants to be nostalgic for the “cherry-colored garden of hati” and for “melodic songs”, by "independence" and by "vyshyvanka".
Sentence, which cannot be faked, nor refute, nor soften. Because anyone, who could commute this sentence, already turned by the Ruin into a human.
Andreas-Alex Kaltenberg,
