Russian Narratives are True

There is this NAFO troll named Pekka Kallioniemi…

He hails from Finland and he is a failed game developer. That would not be anything wrong, I also had many false starts in my life, I can relate. He was also involved in the Gamergate controversy. This guy seems to be a seasoned troll. Terminally online. He says he was “edgy 30 something” but has since grown out of his edginess. There is nothing wrong with the Gamergate unless you were sending death threats to Anita Sarkeesian. In my opinion, the Gamergate never really ended. Game journalism still sucks ass, games still have token negroes and homos, and they suck ass. It is a righteous indignation of the masses.

However, in Pekka’s constructed universe being anti-woke equates to being a vatnik. Vatniks hate wokeness and progressive politics. Pekka has created a shit list called the Vatnik Soup. They are long threads on X, where he character-assassinates a person that does not share his love for Nazi Ukraine. He also discusses phenomena like Russian disinformation and similar.

One of the entries is called Russian Narratives. Now let’s examine those narratives.

1) “Ukrainians shelled Donbas for 8 years, killing 14 000 Russian civilians” – This lie was promoted even by Putin himself. It is naturally not true, as Russians provoked the whole conflict in Donbas

Is this a lie? Shelling civilian areas indiscriminately to sow terror is the marker of Ukrainian military.

These are Kristina and Kira Zhuk, citizens of Gorlovka, mother and daughter killed by the rocket launcher Grad fired by the Ukrainians.

Poroshenko basically said that this is the strategy of Ukraine. Make life so unbearable for the people of the mutinous provinces that they will beg to return back to Ukraine.

2) “Ukraine is ran by Nazis” – The far-right party, “Svoboda” got around 2% of the total vote, and didn’t get any representatives to Verkhovna Rada.Most “evidence” for Ukrainian Nazis are anecdotal, and the far-right Azov Battalion has been disbanded…

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of Ukrainian culture and politics. Like I have said on this blog before, in Ukraine only the party with the most money, the most media presence wins the elections. Zelensky for instance has an entire television series, where he stared as the president of Ukraine. There actually is no need for the explicitly nationalist parties as the mainstream, oligarch funded outfits have pretty much stolen their programme. That is…

1. The supremacy of Ukrainian language over Russian, in a country where over 70% of the population are Russian speakers.
2. Promotion of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators like Bandera and Shukhevych. Slava Ukrayini, Heroyim Slava is literally a Nazi slogan inspired in the late 1930s by Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil! It was shouted by Neonazis on the Maidan in our time, and made official in the Ukrainian military.
3. Trying to severe the spiritual link of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with the Moscow Patriarch because Nationalism and Russophobia

Further Pekka write:

There probably are some soldiers who have far-right views in the Ukrainian Army, but so does every other army, too.

Really dude? 🤡 Here in Czechia, if you are discovered having sympathies towards Naziism, you would be dishonorably discharged, and probably face court. Meanwhile, as I documented on this blog, in Ukraine this is out in the open.

Also this is funny:

It’s worth noting that this narrative is not even targeted so much at Western people. The rhetoric of “The Great Patriotic War” (meaning WW2 where the Soviets fought against the Nazis) is mainly targeted at Russians, as they see it as a great victory.

If this is intended to persuade the Russians, why are the Western warmongers all denying the presence of Nazis in Ukraine? Are they afraid that if the Russians sway enough people to this narrative in the West, it could pose problems for support of Ukraine?

3) “US started the war by supporting coup d’etat in 2014 on Maidan” – Not true. Maidan was an organic event, but it’s still a very complex issue. The US supported Ukrainian democratic processes through an association called National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

The Gamergate was organic, I am inclined to believe NAFO is organic but Srachemaidan was not. NED involvement means millions or billions of dollars spent through various channels on the protests.

4) “Ukraine broke the Minsk agreement” – Ukraine and Russia both did, and the whole thing wasn’t really going to work anyway. Neil Abrams…

I don’t know who Neil Abrams is and I don’t give a fuck what he has to say about Minsk Agreement because I have actually read the latter and it says therein that Ukraine should change its constitution to accommodate the Donbas as a autonomy. None of this was done. Putin wanted to use the Americans to talk sense to the Ukrainians but the later refused.

Angela Merkel later disclosed to Russian pranksters that the Minsk Agreement was to buy Ukraine time. Basically, Angela Merkel thinks Ukraine broke the agreement and the opinion of Pekka or Neil Abrams does not matter now.

5) “Russian-speaking Ukrainians are being oppressed in Ukraine” – First of all, it was the Soviets and Stalin who tried to destroy Ukrainian culture by transporting huge numbers of people to other parts of the USSR. This is how he tried to get rid of the Crimean Tatars.

The Crimean Tatars were already a minority in Crimea by the time of their deportation, and were allowed to return after Communism fell.

It is a myth that Stalin somehow Russified Ukraine. Cities in Ukraine were always Russian speaking and in the East and Crimea, Russian predominated. Either way, whatever the history, it did not give the Ukrainian state the right to discriminate against the Russian language. This reverse discrimination in the name of some ephemeral historical justice has no place in a just society.

6) “NATO provokes the war with its expansion” – Another issue that I have written about previously. No such promises were ever made beyond East Germany, and if James Baker had said it, nothing was ever put on paper.

Gentleman’s agreement does not need to be put on paper. NATO expansion eastwards was a provocation, and I dare say it contributed to the Russian alienation from the West. Somehow, the East Europeans did not need NATO for an entire decade and then suddenly Russia became a threat? Who is threatening who actually?

If NATO keeps fucking with Russia, there will be war…