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In general, such a series of news unconsciously makes the hair on the head move:
a man in Russia escaped from several security forces, was caught and sent to war;
the news that the Russians cannot escape from the front, they are being shot by their own comrades;
blocking the «Khochu Zhyt’» (I want to live) website for Russians who want to surrender to Ukraine;
the news about the first 200 Russians who were mobilized just 10 days ago...
Despair, hopelessness: «They didn’t want to fight.» The human nature inside of us trembles.
But... You remember that they did not want to fight, while the war against the Ukrainians itself was okay with them. And they were okay with the despair of the Ukrainians, who messaged them that they were bombing, destroying and killing us. «Bear with it a little,» [they responded.] Russians found the rapes funny, at a time when Ukrainians were filled with despair from the news about the raped.
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What can be said about the despair of those who heard and saw it. What can be said about the despair of those who experienced it. What can be said about the despair of those who did not survive, but understood that this is how his life would end in torment? And many other despairs: hearing the voices of close people under the rubble. Seeing bodies and parts of people’s bodies, dying of hunger. Then, it was okay for the Russians. And now, they want sympathy, although they themselves, as a people, are simply not capable of such an impression.
Although it seems that they are okay with the despair of their compatriots, who are raked into their own Russian meat grinder. When the evader was caught at the train station, the girls who filmed it on their phones «smiled». And the passers-by looked around as if at a leper.
[For the Russians], conscripts are no longer their compatriots, they are like lepers, for whom there is no sympathy, there is a desire to «not to be disturbed.»
In this context, we wonder about the karma, the retribution, the harvest of what they sowed. So many peoples suffered because of Russia. And Russia is now suffering from itself in a strange, paradoxical way. Their real grief is still far from the grief of those to whom they came and are coming. But in their selfish atrophied soul, where they are the centre of the universe, this grief is very heavy and real for them. After all, the god of Russia is not immortal, Russia is not all-powerful, and Russians will not be unpunished. What a grief...
Translated by Vitalii Holich
The author’s column is a reflection of the author’s subjective position. The editors of «Tvoe Misto» do not always share the opinions expressed in the columns, and are ready to give those who disagree the opportunity for a reasoned answer.
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