When the first McDonalds opened in Moscow in 1990, it drew crowds people. Now 32 years years later, nobody gives a fuck if it closes. The attitudes have changed, the World has changed…
Make it DonMak.
I was walking the dog in the morning by the river. It was 6:30, the time of the dawn. The sunlight was already strong enough to block out all the fixed stars, and the only celestial body visible was Venus in the East. I flashed the sign of the horns, and continued walking the dog…
Please stop, even Zelensky begs you to stop!!!
The threat of war is scarier sometimes than a war itself. Ukraine is a deeply troubled country that does not need war, or even the rumours of war. And the behaviour of Western media is quite frankly despicable. But what to expect from entities that have lied about Russia for the last 20 something years?
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. – John 8:32 NKJV
Plato brings forth a so called Chariot Allegory that says human souls are riding a chariot through life. But the majority of the riders have their heads in the clouds, and only few can see the light above. Or at least this is my simplified understanding of the matter.
Russians and Ukraine: One reason I started blogging back in early 2010 (maybe 2009, I can’t remember) was to address Western lies about Russia. It was around that year I began being interested in Ukraine, it was a call of my roots. I even attended a session with Serhii Plochy at Cambridge University that discussed issues of identity in Ukraine. I made and effort to learn the Ukrainian language by watching Ukrainian TV. The Ukrainian language is a patois composed of Old Russian and Polish, and I already recognised antiquated Russian word forms, and knew Czech, which together with Polish is a Western Slavic language, and shares many words with the Polish segment of Ukrainian. What I needed to learn were words that are not found in Czech.
In Summer 2013, I was lying in Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, incapacitated after a horrific accident. I had a laptop, and was deleting one Ukrainian channel after another because I could not bear the anti-Russian venom they were spewing there in the run up to the Maidan.
Guess what I am doing now? Working in academia? Some analytical center? Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
I am a part-time tour guide doing tours in Czech, Russian, and English. And then I watch mainstream TV (I think it was France 24) and I see this lady from some analytical center saying something like this:
Russia believes that there was a Western sponsored unconstitutional coup in Ukraine done by neonazis, and felt like the ethnic Russians in Ukraine were threatened. I do not think this was the case but that is what they believe.
Why doesn’t she think this is the case? Why does she need to insert a disclaimer? Is she afraid that presenting this as a fact would endanger her position, her career? But has she seen the massacre in Odessa? The city was flooded with neonazis from all over to violently crush the anti-Maidan protest. The anti-Maidanists were the true democrats here because they wanted a referendum. I watched many videos from that event, in one of them featuring girls preparing Molotow cocktails, one of the girls said in Czech: “To je málo” – that’s too little. It was said with Ukrainian accent, suggesting the other girls weren’t even Ukrainians.
More recently, I heard the former leader of the neonazi outfit called Národní Odpor (National Resistance), Filip Vávra say that many Czech neonazis went to fight on Ukraine’s side. Given that his own group was infiltrated and destroyed by the secret services, I would not be surprised if the latter directed the flow of willing knuckleheads.
But I am rambling. Know this, most things you read in Western publications about Ukraine and Russia is dumb propaganda
Fat acceptance: What the fucks even is this? I realised I gained a dad bod over Winter and the quarantine, not moving much, and I immediately began exercising. I wanna be lean and sweet, so that girls would just salivate with the desire to eat me. I’ll put on some Italian cloths on and will look super slick…
Female biology: Women have been told they can have careers instead of motherhood and achieve happiness, women have been told they can have dozens of sexual partners and still be desirable. If men can do it, why can’t the women? 80% of women have sex with 20% of men. Very few men are actually slaying the pussy on industrial scale, which cannot be said of many women. In their case they let their pussy be slayed on industrial scale.
Women are best between 18-27, and you can’t change that, make the best of those years, become a mother to a beautiful child. Don’t try having a baby at 35. Telling women otherwise is setting them on a path towards lonely and unhappy lives.
PS: These are the areas I am familiar with but there may be others and so this is Vol I. If you know anything similar, feel free to add it in the comments.
For a while I have practiced this intellectual exercise, whenever I see an inane Russophobic comment I do a rereading of the comment by inserting the place of Russia, and Russians, Israel and Jews. So for instance, recent comment by Anthony Blinken:
“I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave,”
Magic want working
“I think one lesson in recent history is that once Jews are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave,”
Does the second statement sound ignorant and hateful? That’s because Blinken’s statement was ignorant and hateful.
In another instance, I see Russophobic comments saying that Russia is surrounded by countries that hate it. This is somehow meant to show Russia to be hostile and criminal. But Russia was always surrounded by hostile enemies. Expansionist Westerners and opportunistic nomads in the East. Israel is also surrounded by countries that hate it, and East Europeans that live in Russophobic countries are the Arabs. How about some missile strike, wretches?
The Arabs are actually smarter than the East Europeans, at least the Jordanians, and the Egyptians are cool with Israel, and slowly but surely, East Europeans will hopefully be cool with Russia.
I still remember what a certain Svidomite troll on my old blog, Austere Insomniac, said of the church of Dmitry Sydor. Dmitry Sydor was an Orthodox priest, and a Carpatho-Rusyn activist, and his church was struck by lightning which toppled the cross upon the dome of the church. He interpreted it as a sign of God’s displeasure…
Dmitry Sydor was then persecuted for separatism, that was still under the presumably pro-Russian Yanukovych, and allegations were made against him that he received money from the Russian World Fund. Meanwhile though, Western funds, Soros and others were operating freely and several years later, the people on Western payroll ousted Yanukovych. This is to remind anyone who thinks that Russia should have engaged in buying influence in Ukraine the way West did. Russia did not have an even playing field in Ukraine. Besides, going against the collective West in the game of buying influence was a losing proposition from the beginning.
But weather signs have been rich this winter, strong winds have destroyed a supersized portrait of Stepan Bandera in Ternopol, Halychyna, Ukraine.
The gods hate Bandera too, not just Poles, Russians, and Belarusians, and just about anyone in Ukraine and around it. Even more ominous image has been generated on the other side of the country, in Kharkov.
The wind has split in two the national flag of Ukraine. Funny that the Ukrainian flag is associated with the homeland of Bandera and contains in it the colours from the coat of arms of Lvov, that is a golden lion on an azure field. A variant of this flag was given to the people of Halychyna by Empress Sophie as a thank you for help in suppressing the Hungarian revolt. Emperor Franz Joseph called them Tyrolleans of the East.
The Tyrolleans were the epitome of loyalty in Austria because they stood loyal to the Habsburgs when Napoleon invaded. The Ukrainian flag was introduced to Russian Ukraine by Sichovi Striltsy, a group formed of Ukrainian nationalists that was originally part of the Austrian army.
Finally it is here. While this may have been a palace coup but the British have evidently lost influence with the sidelining of Nazarbayev’s people. Nazarbayev was climbing the anal heights of the British and even implemented British law. I think that it would be only good if the Kazakh elites are no longer linked to London. Hello freedom!
PS: Tom Tugendhat fascinates me because his family is from my neck of the woods. Below is Vila Tugendhat in Brno. His family fled in 1938 to Britain because of their Jewish origins.
I assume my test would come out similar, so I haven’t got a reason to make my own. I am poor, I need money for books to read for my own literary project. So here it is, and it conforms family history.
Mittleuropa, Greater Russia and literally everything in between. Slovaks, Poles, and Ukrainians…
My ancestor, Dominik Kramer, a carpenter, came to Liptál, or Lipthal, also Liebenthal, Moravia sometime in 1790s, or the early nineteenth century, with his noble from South Western Germany, probably fleeing revolutionary France. His son Anton married Mariana Himmer, a daughter of a ranger. Onwards, these German immigrants married only local Czechs, and Slovaks, because I do not see any German surnames in that line. They Teutonicised these Slavs, and my grandmother was a German speaker.
So I guess that explains the Germanic 5% influence.
Ok, you tried…
Reports have it that Lukashenko, the Belarusian president said he will side with the republics of Donbas should Ukraine attack them.
Insomniac Resurrected 