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In the photo are three friends: Anastasia Yalanska (26), Serhiy Ustymenko (25), and Maksym Kuzmenko (28). They do not yet know that this shot will become the final testament to their lives. That just a few kilometers away from where this photo was taken, an ambush awaits them—one from which no one will make it out alive.

On the morning of March 4, 2022, the friends loaded Serhiy's SUV with animal food. The plan was simple: deliver the supplies to a shelter in Zabuchchia and visit Serhiy's parents in Bucha.

They knew it was dangerous there, but they couldn't have imagined that the ruzzian occupation of the city had already begun, and the streets had turned into a site of mass executions. They were just mere meters away from reaching Serhiy's parents.

ruzzian soldiers fired about a hundred bullets at their car. Maksym died on the spot from a gunshot wound to the head. Nastya managed to jump out of the car, but she was shot in the legs. Serhiy also ran out of the vehicle and tried to shield his friend with his own body. "They simply finished them off," Anastasia's mother recounts.

The bodies of the young people could only be taken from the road in the afternoon, once the occupiers had advanced further into the city center. Serhiy's parents buried their son and his friends right in their own yard.

> 🗣 "The neighbors dug the grave. Valera [Serhiy's father – ed.] washed the children, because I was out of my mind with grief. I wrote down each child's last name, first name, patronymic, and date of birth. And I added: 'Shot on March 4, 2022.' Because if we were killed or bombed ourselves, I didn't want the children to remain unidentified," recalls Serhiy's mother.

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It was only after the de-occupation of Bucha that the friends could be properly reburied. The forensic examination confirmed the sheer brutality of that morning: Maksym suffered two gunshot wounds, Anastasia was hit six times, and Serhiy—nine.

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Your “great” country is already in its fith year of failing to capture a village with three grandmas and one tractor. Especially be proud of the ones currently fertilising the black soil under Malaya Tokmachka.

Your “Kyiv in three days” memes have already become a classic of world comedy.

Whole generations of the “second army of the world” are lying in neat layers in our soil. It's the most expensive organic fertiliser in history. Next year’s sunflower harvest is going to be fucking cosmic. Thank you for your service.

And don’t forget to be proud of those heroes who, during the grand “denazification” operation, made toilets their primary objective.

Because back home it’s still a bucket and a newspaper.

Most of all, be proud that you’re cheering for rapists and murderers.

So keep being proud.

"Because they are so mysterious 😭"

"They are anti usa so they are anti imperialism"

"it's putin's war"

"they are not guilty they were born in ruzzia..."

This is a true masterclass in historical gaslighting

Oh, ruzzia preserved cultures all right...

Only by aggressively trying to pave national cultures with a monolithic ruzzian identity.

Language Replacement: They loved native languages so much they outright banned them. Under the Russian Empire, decrees like the Valuev Circular (1863) and the Ems Ukaz (1876) literally banned the publication of books, religious texts, and even sheet music in the Ukrainian language. During the Soviet era, ruzzian was strictly enforced as the language of success, administration, and "brotherhood." If you wanted a career, you abandoned your mother tongue.

The Surname Makeover: To help non-ruzzians feel more "included" in the empire, authorities frequently altered indigenous surnames. Across Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Siberia, traditional names were forcefully modified to include Russian suffixes like -ov, -ev, and -in. It was administrative erasure disguised as clerical standardization.

"Nurturing" the Cultural Elites

You claimed the empire developed these nations. Indeed, they developed a highly efficient system for murdering anyone who remembered they were a distinct nation.

The Executed Renaissance: In the 1930s, Stalin's regime systematically arrested, deported, and executed a whole generation of Ukrainian writers, artists, and intellectuals because their vibrant cultural revival threatened moscow's control.

Katyn and Beyond: When the Soviets invaded Poland in 1939, they didn't develop the Polish intelligentsia; they took over 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals into the forest of Katyn and shot them in the back of the head. Similar purges decimated the intellectual elites of the Baltic states, Belarus, and the Tatar populations. If you were a local leader, a poet, or a thinker who didn't enthusiastically bow to moscow, you were given a one-way ticket to a Gulag or a mass grave.

They Are "Still Doing It"

And that this isn't just history, it is current geopolitical policy.

In the occupied territories of Ukraine today, the ruzzian state is systematically burning Ukrainian history books, forcing schools to switch entirely to the ruzzian curriculum, and dismantling monuments of local cultural figures.

They are actively deporting thousands of Ukrainian children to ruzziia to be "re-educated" and given ruzzian passports—a textbook tactic of cultural genocide meant to sever the next generation from their heritage.

But what about ruzzian culture?"

​ I am so unbelievably sick of hearing people bend over backwards to defend ruzzian culture while completely ignoring the calculated, brutal erasure of another one.

The world is obsessed with protecting the "mysterious ruzzian soul". Let’s get one thing straight: the real face of ruzzian culture isn't a ballerina or a tragic poet.

The real face of ruzzian culture is murder. It is rape. It is a deeply ingrained, bloodthirsty imperialism propped up by the pathetic "small person" mindset - the incredibly convenient philosophy that an individual is just a helpless speck with no agency, bearing zero responsibility for the atrocities their empire commits, right before they happily march across a border to slaughter their neighbors.

And yet, the world is already rolling out the red carpet to welcome them back. The International Olympic Committee is tripping over itself to pretend this genocide is just a minor geopolitical faux pas. Ruzzins are creeping back into international movies and global spaces because heaven forbid the world actually isolate a terrorist state. We wouldn't want to make things awkward for the purveyors of such a "rich heritage."

So, what is this deeply profound culture doing while the world warms up to them again? They are speedrunning Fahrenheit 451.

Ray Bradbury wrote that book as a dystopian warning about regimes that burn books to destroy independent thought, history, and identity. We don't need science fiction to see what that looks like. We are watching it live in Ukraine. While you weep for ruzzian art, the ruzzian military is methodically, deliberately destroying Ukrainian literature.

Let’s look at the actual math of this "great culture" in action:

ruzzian forces used drones and Iskander missiles to deliberately double-tap publishing warehouses in Kharkiv—facilities used by the Ranok publishing house, Knyholove, and the KnyhoLand bookstore chain.

An estimated 8 million copies of Ukrainian-language books, spanning 28,000 titles, were completely incinerated.

They wiped out 600,000 educational textbooks prepared for Ukrainian schools right before the academic year. Just weeks earlier, another strike destroyed upwards of 410,000 more textbooks.

It takes an entire ecosystem of authors, editors, and designers to build a country's literary culture. It takes a terrorist state to launch a barrage of multi-million-dollar missiles at a warehouse full of children's schoolbooks just to ensure the next generation has nothing left to read.

But the West doesn't want to look at the ashes. Westerners are pulling a massive, collective Don't Look Up. You are turning a blind eye, eagerly handing out Olympic medals and movie roles, quietly waiting for Ukraine to just be erased so you can go back to business as usual without feeling guilty.

But you know what? You will be next.

Before the internet only your relatives could see that you were an imbecile, now you have decided to show it to the whole world. 👍

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