Works Of The Outstanding Ukrainian Artist Mykola Pymonenko

What tankies say: "Ukraine should negotiate for peace!"

What tankies actually mean: "russia should get whatever it wants and Ukraine should sit still while russia rapes, tortures and murders the Ukrainians, because "West bad"."

3 things for today - head space

- gucci sunglasses

- girly comics

Veronique Leroy FW 2005

Харків. Дитина ховається у ванні від російських ракет, поки мати чекає на лікарів через те, що її обличчя та ноги порізало вбитим склом

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Kharkiv. Child hides in bathtub from russian missiles as mother waits for doctors after her face and legs were cut by broken glass

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Суспільне | Новини

Волонтерка Наталія Попова дістала поранення під час удару РФ по Харкову

Поблизу будинку волонтерки Наталії Попової у Шевченківському районі влучила російська ракета 2 січня. Вона отримала поранення від скла, її с

protect the skin you’re in 🎀

Peter Sato (1979)

“Here’s where things get intellectually very interesting. They are swept up by Catherine’s idea of a new Russia. 

So Catherine has this idea, which is very elegant. It’s also a classically colonial idea: that these lands that have just been conquered, these are virgin territories.

So the place is renamed. What’s now Southern Ukraine, where the Cossacks had had power, and the Crimean Peninsula, where the Crimean Khanate had had power, these places are renamed “New Russia”.

Now that word “new” is magical, right? Like with New England, or New South Wales, or New Caledonia. 

More than 200 years later, 300 years later, people are gonna be still drawn by this notion of New Russia. 

But when you say something is new, you’re not saying it’s yours, you’re saying that we want it to be ours, right? That’s the whole point. 

So Novorossiya does not mean something which is Russian, it means something that we’re gonna make Russia, we’re gonna pretend that nothing else is there. 

And how do you do that? 

Well, you send multiple expeditions of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences to Crimea to name everything, find all the species, map everything. 

Because science is one of the tools by which you gather imperial knowledge.

And then the naming — I mean, one has to admit this is quite brilliant on Catherine’s part. They rename everything. 

So all the Turkic names, the Muslim names, the Crimean Tatar names, are replaced. 

And what are they replaced with? Greek names or names that sound Greek. 

Like Kherson, that city that’s being fought over right now. Mariupol, sounds Greek sorta, right? That’s the whole idea.

They took the old names and then they replaced them with Greek names. And when they founded new places, they gave them Greek, or Greek-ish, Greek sounding, Greco whatever names.

And the point of this is to say that Russia is connected with the classical world. And in that we’re European. We’re in the enlightenment. 

Connecting Russia with the classical world, going back all the way 2000 years, means that you obliviate everything that happens in between.

So the Crimeans don’t matter, the Ukrainians don’t matter, it’s Russia here alone with its historical destiny, which goes all the way back to Greece. 

And so it’s New Russia, but it’s justified by this connection to the classical world.”

Source: Timothy Snyder: Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 11.Ottoman Retreat, Russian Power,Ukrainian Populism

there is nothing essential about russian culture that puts the country on a warpath against its neighbors; there is nothing inherently cruel, violent, or sadistic to be found in it. there is likewise nothing about azerbaijanis or turks that makes them predisposed to barbarity against armenians, kurds, greeks. we are going to see all this happen again and again and again if we buy into this superficial, reactionary argument