The reason I stopped using Twitter and Facebook is because of wanton censorship. A variety of blockages, shadow bans, termination of accounts is being deployed against a vast variety of people for an incredible range of transgressions. Sometimes you don’t even know what caused the ban you received. There is illegal content that should absolutely be removed from websites but most people are not sanctioned for any of that. And really, the correct answer, the minute you receive a ban is to stop using that site. There is Telegram, and everyone is posting there…
Now sometimes, the social media engage in a strange obstruction of content. Eduard Dolinsky is the head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee and regularly posts information regarding the rampant rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine. This is what his Twitter page looks like when you load it…
So, apparently, brining attention to monuments to Nazis is including sensitive content. Look at the way the profile is hidden from view, as if it was deleted. This is a form of censorship as there isn’t a valid reason to hide his profile and its contents.
And his posts are equally hidden…
There is an option to change settings but I will not register to Twitter again.
Similar shift happened in Austrian Halychyna shortly before WWI and most definitely during the Great War…
Note that the Austrians were rather successful in their support for Ukrainian nationalism, and the USA were neutral in 1914. Ruthenian and Little Russian is used interchangeably here. Although Little Russia was the area around the Dnieper River, Ruthenia is a Latin corruption of Rus.
Václav Láska is a Czech senator, who suffers a serious case of cargo cult delusion. He toured the country few years ago giving speeches on how “the Czech Republic belongs to the West.” Above is his curious post, I translate:
The Hungarian way? The Hungarians are following only one way. How to become a vassal of Russia without the Warsaw Pact and the Comecon. Through Russian vaccines, through the construction of nuclear power plants by Rosatom. I would rather “go to the arse” than go the Hungarian way.
In Czech, the term “do prdele” to the arse is a common insult, identical in meaning to the Italian “va fan culo”.
Naturally, the responses to this magnificent tweet were often along the lines: “start packing suitcases.” I often responded to the suggestion that I should move to Russia with saying “you should move to arse, where you belong.”
I do not get what is wrong with Russians supplying a cure and keeping the lights on. And quite frankly, the choice between a “Hungarian way” and the arse can have more levels of meaning in our times.
The result of refusing Russian vaccine is that we now have a deficit. The demonization of Russia has deprived us of cure to Covid. And guess what, they cannot allow the idea that Russia may have the capacity to develop an effective cure. How can a country with economy the size of Italy (or was it Texas or Nigeria with snow?) have the capacity to develop and create anything? It does not fit into the propaganda narrative. And that’s why Lithuanians will be late adopters of whatever vaccines they eventually get hold of.
Ukraine is like a late Weimar Republic crossed with Haiti under Papa Doc, where local SA looks more like Tonton Macoutes…
As you probably may have heard, Ukraine’s president has banned 3 TV channels that were critical of the way things are going, that is doing the job journalists should be doing. But little attention was given to the fact that Neonazis were unleashed on the journalists. And I mean this literally and unironically, the Neonazis were seen picketing and provoking confrontation at TV Nash. One of these Neonazis was Vita Zaverukha.
Vita Zaverukha served in the battalion “Aidar”, a Neonazi paramilitary group that the post-Maidan government unleashed to suppress rebellion in the East of the country. She was accused of murdering of two policemen in a botched robbery in Kiev. Groups like “Aidar”, were mostly engaged in banditry, when they weren’t terrorizing the opponents of the Maidan. They preyed on the people of Donbas, and when that resource was harder to come by they turned their activities inland. Somehow she managed to escape justice, which is typical for members of these groups because they are all maintained by the Ministry of Interior.
Vita Zaverukha says Heil!:
Elle Magazine did a report featuring Vita about women fighters in Ukraine.
Most of the photos were found at Strana UA but some I took from Daily Mail. It seems like the only mainstream media in the West to report on this girl was Daily Mail, they love hardcore over there just like me.
A more sinister development in Ukraine is happening concurrently. The pro-Russian Zelensky decided to trump his predecessor Poroshenko and mandated the use of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of business. The issue here is that the Ukrainian language is not the vernacular in large swaths of Ukraine, and many people in Ukraine do not speak or use proper Ukrainian. The dominant language is Russian. Legislations on the linguistic issue is bound to create conflict and give various nationalist activists a carte blanche to harass people.
And what do you think happened? Conflict and harassment of people by the Nazis. A Jewish food store in Odessa, “U Moshkovychei” became a center of attacks by local Nazis after it posted a commercial in the Ukrainian language using Russian Cyrillic instead of Ukrainian.
Shalom dear friends
Next week, we will prepare real khinkali with lamb and the correct pastry. Stars have aligned, and a family friend visited us, a proper Georgian cook, Guladi. Do not miss this opportunity to do order, it will be on only for a month in Odessa.
Forever yours, your Deli u Moshkovychei
As you can see, the deli did nothing wrong, just followed the law that now all advertisement must be in Ukrainian. The owners understand Ukrainian but can’t write it. Activists have been quick:
16 January 2021, the linguistic patrol.
They assumed the deli was denigrating the Ukrainian language and began writing nasty comments to the owners and the business. And eventually the deli had to close…
One of the tropes on this blog always was that Russophobia leads to poverty, destitution, and decay. And this goes not just for utter shitholes of the East like Ukraine or Moldova, this concerns all the post-communists countries where Russophobic sentiments fueled by local Western funded activists and encouraged by the US government (I do not think historical memory of Soviet domination is the major factor behind these sentiments) posing as politicians and journalists lead to the destruction of infrastructure, decay of economy, and missed opportunities…
One of the policies of Russia in recent years was to redirect its infrastructure to bypass the formerly communist nations of Eastern Europe and instead deal with more confident nations like Germany or Turkey. This is how Bulgarians missed out on the Black Sea pipeline, and in the works is the Czech Republic missing on the opportunity to expand its nuclear power plants if it listens to the voices that urge the government to boycott the Rosatom bid.
And for a good example of missed opportunity and subsequent industrial decay, we should look to Latvia. Latvia has sinned against the Russian people, it has discriminated against them, it has made them second class citizens. Latvia has also been guilty of shamelessly glorifying Nazi collaborators. Meanwhile, Latvia was a large transport corridor for Russian coal and other resources that used the ports on the Baltic Sea. Latvia also joined NATO, another unfriendly act, and Russia quietly built her own port on the Baltic Sea and stopped the shipments through Latvia.
The RuBalticreports that the Latvian Railways plan to sell 4,300 tons of scrap metal from rails, pointers and other pieces of infrastructure. In May last year, the Latvian railways sold their real estate in Jelgava, the building in question was used as a recreation home for the employees of the railways. The logic is simple, no employees, no recreation home. In June the Latvian Railways put up for sale 46 cars. In July, the Railways put up for sale the station in Suntaži. In August, the Latvian Railways put up for sale 200 transport wagons. In September they put up for sale 3,500 tons of scrap metals. In November it was 8 locomotives. Further more automibiles have been put up for sale in December…
