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Speaking of which:
Ukraine promotes neo-Nazi unit commander
Azov’s Denis Prokopenko will soon lead five more brigades, the National Guard has announcedhttps://swentr.site/russia/615877-azov-commander-promotion-corps/
I recently read a book about Azov, just released 1 month or so prior to the russian invasion, and the author said basically that without a conflict the Azov movement could very well die out, unfortunately a conflict occurred and since then these far-right extremists have only strengthen their power.
From the Fires of War: Ukraine’s Azov Movement and the Global Far Right
https://www.amazon.se/-/en/Michael-Colborne/dp/3838215087
It was sure a tremendous naivety/blunder when Russia agreed to settle Azov leaders in Turkey only to see Turkey and Ukraine agree to release the azov fighters and get them back to Ukraine:
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy brings home Azovstal commanders from Turkey
Russia denounces the soldiers’ return, accusing Kyiv and Ankara of violating a prisoner exchange deal under which the men were to remain in Turkey until the end of the war.There is sure some nasty Nazi-rehabilitation going on:
Ukraine plotting to overshadow Russia’s Victory Day – Politico
Kiev has reportedly invited EU leaders to a high-level meeting on May 9 to rival the annual military parade in Moscowhttps://swentr.site/russia/615789-ukraine-plot-overshadow-russia-victory-day/
Our media, citing the Financial Times, reported that Serbia’s potential membership in the EU is under threat if Serbian President Vucic attends the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazism in Moscow
https://www.ft.com/content/c06dcd52-3fee-475b-b145-b92ac3514e9fThe Serbian president had previously announced plans to travel with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico to Moscow on May 9 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Victory.
Kaja Kallas said that the EU has communicated to EU candidate countries that it doesn’t welcome their participation in the May 9 parade in Moscow and does not plan to participate itself.
Estonian Foreign Ministry Chancellor Jonathan Vseviov said that the consequence of Vucic’s attendance at the parade could be “not joining the European Union.”
“We need to make them understand that they will have to pay a high price for certain decisions,” Vseviov said.
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Can you believe your eyes? I cannot.Tatyana
Yes I saw that too, it is so senseless, so taking part in a commemoration against Nazi Germany is now considered controversial?! What have become of the west? But it once prove that Russia’s claim of western acceptance of Nazism is true.
What make this even more absurd, I googled that Estonian foreign minister – Jonathan Vseviov and apparently he is a jew (and his father is some historian which I also saw, have no problem with Israels massive destruction, war crimes, apparently war crimes are only bad when Russia allegedly commit them).German anti-Russia propaganda is reaching Nazi-era levels
Moscow is now being accused of orchestrating Islamist terrorism, among a litany of other ridiculous claimshttps://swentr.site/news/615896-germany-russia-nazi-propaganda/
Note that the article also mention the popular russian song “Sigma Boy” as some nefarious evil song-plot set off by Putin, lol, this is senseless. I read the lyrics and it is a harmless child/girlie song for crying out loud! It is like the west have turned into an asylum.Yes, Jack, I agree.
The justification of Nazism outrages me, but I simply donэt know how to explain the stupidity of some statements by politicians and the media. Are they serious?
In fact, it creates the impression that stupid statements are not made sincerely, but for some other purpose. I just can’t believe that people can be serious when they say such stupid things.The song Sigma-boy is the narcissism of a girl in her early teens, self-praise, and an extremely awkward confession that she is interested in a guy. Quite normal amohg teens. It went viral somewhere on TikTok. Can anyone really think that this is Putin’s propaganda?
I know for sure that Pushkin’s Onegin and Tchaikovsky’s opera are staged in theaters, opera houses and cinemas all over the world. While in Ukraine, a rope was thrown over the Pushkin monument and a sign was hung saying “bulldozer awaiting”.
The monument to the author of “The Master and Margarita” and “The dog’s heart” Bulgakov was demolished in Kiev in 2024.It’s unlikely that anyone considers Pushkin, Tchaikovsky or Bulgakov to be Putin’s agents, since they died long before Putin was born.
Nevertheless, it happens.
in 2023, Ukraine burned 11 million books in Russian, they called it a de-Russification program.
Do you know what it’s called when they take books out of libraries to burn them?
I cannot interpret it in any other way than as Russophobia and Nazism.Ralph Fiennes to direct new staging of Eugene Onegin at Opéra de Paris
https://bachtrack.com/news-ralph-fiennes-paris-opera-eugene-onegin-april-2025Anna Netrebko to open Royal Opera season, returning after a 6-year absence
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/royal-opera-london-puccini-vladimir-putin-verdi-b2725882.htmlA couple of weeks ago, Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin, who plays for the Washington Capitals, surpassed Wayne Gretzky’s record for the number of goals scored.
Gretzky congratulated “Ovi”, and said that he was proud that his record was surpassed by a Russian, since Gretzky’s grandfather was also Russian.
This caused hysteria in Ukraine!To paraphrase Shakespeare’s All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: – All the world’s the Kremlin, and all the men and women are Putin’s agents.
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In the distant 1776, the Bolshoi Theater was founded in Moscow, the year when the British colonies declared their independence and formed the United States.
It seems impossible to just cancel everything Russian in this world, neither the people nor the culture.Tatyana
Yes everything russian is off limits, here in Sweden for example they even banned a pro-ukrainian concert back in 2022. Why? Because the instruments used – Balalajkas is a russian instrument.
Here is a Google translated article about it: https://ibb.co/7xqHhfSg
Like I said before, the russophobia is pathological, clinically pathological.I believe part is the idealistic and naive nature of many westerners, they simply live in their own world regarding Russia, in their own head, they get too much anxiety facing the real world and make up their own reality (i.e Ukraine is about to win, Putin is about to die, Trump is a secret agent for Russia etc)
Just take the news coming out now that US propose that Russia keep the ukrainian territories, not really controversial now since it is obviously impossible for Ukraine to retake them:US proposes leaving former Ukrainian territories under Russian control – Bloomberg
Washington’s offer also reportedly envisions easing sanctions on Moscow and ending Kiev’s NATO aspirationshttps://swentr.site/news/615961-russia-ukraine-peace-us/
There are however reports that US could quit the peace talks with Russia:
US could ‘move on’ from Russia-Ukraine peace talks – Rubio
The US secretary of state has suggested that the White House could abandon efforts to settle the conflict if it doesn’t see progress in the coming dayshttps://swentr.site/news/615936-us-could-move-on-from-russia-ukraine-talks-rubio/
Trump claimed he could create peace in Ukraine within 24 hours before coming president and that claim is most likely true but then he have the EU that try to sabotage just that goal, again, the west are too idealistic, they are not ruled by what is going on on the ground in reality but what they personally wish for and want. It is very childish, immature attitude.
So to be honest I do not expect anything good to come, I would not be surprised if US quit the peace talks and keep on with the proxy-war against Russia, upping the sanctions, tariffs etc there is simply too many anti-russian warmongers for Trump to take on but most likely it will sooner or later end with Russia keeping large segments of territories and that Ukraine will not join Nato in the foreseeable future, anyone that live in the real world understand that.
And I’m puzzled by the new Ukrainian national identity.
How are they going to build it on the basis of denying everything Russian?
After all, it is not true. It is a lie.
We come from the same roots and we were one country.Okay, now they want to build a separate state and a separate nation. Okay. We lived as fairly good neighbors since 1991, traded, rented space in Crimea for the Russian fleet, transited gas through Ukraine, the usual neighborly things.
But suddenly this mentality appeared, anti-Russian, hateful. They disowned Pushkin and Tchaikovsky, they don’t want this cultural heritage to be associated with them.
It’s so strange, because it completely contradicts reality.It’s really so non-Russian. I mean, Viktor Tsoi is popular here, a rock bard from the 80-90s, probably. He sang in Russian and this is enough for him to be a cult Russian singer, a legend.
Although ethnically he is a Korean from Kazakhstan!
Or, Magomed Nurbagandov, a national hero. This National Guard serviceman was captured by bandits. They killed his brother and tortured him, filming it. He was given the last word before they killed him, and he said, turning to his fellow soldiers: “Do your job, brothers.”
He is a real national hero, a Russian hero. Ethnically he is from Dagestan, but who cares about his ethnicity if he said his words in Russian?I don’t understand Ukrainians at all. They build their newborn national ‘culture’ on hatred, denial and lies.
Sorry for being verbose, today I have some free time after working non-stop in the last few weeks. There are nice people here, who don’t mind reading what I say, I will brazenly take advantage of it, sorry. Continuing about culture.
Nikolai Gogol, the author of “Little Russia’s Tales” – my favorite book in childhood, and the first of the Russian classics that I liked. Simply because his literature described what I saw in my mixed Russian-Ukrainian culture of the Krasnodar region.
Unlike Bazhov, whose stories for children were offered by school libraries. But the descriptions of the Ural nature did not respond to my southern heart at all.Gogol, yes, Gogol. You know, borshch, salo, vareniki, nice Malorossia, better Cossaks, Taras f***in’ Bulba, Gogol! 🙂
Recently they re-filmed his Viy, and it was very, very good. If someday the Russian state renounces Gogol and says that he’s no longer a great classic of Russian literature – please kill me.
Yes I do not get the ukrainian nationalism either, it is so fanatical and antiquated, I mean these people talk like it is 1930s when they speak of an ethnically clean state, calls to suppress the russian laguage, culture, their militarism etc. It seems that these extremists unfortunately got so much power, ever since Ukraine became an independent state, and that in part, through intimidation and violence. I assume many other “normal” ukrainian parties are simply too afraid to take a stand against these radicals.
By the way I had not heard about Magomed Nurbagandov, really horrible read – poor guy, the story reminded me, incidentally, about the videotaped Hammer murder in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine many years ago.
Jack, I think I know what hammer murder you are talking about. It was attributed to the Wagner group.
Horrific violence. I unsubscribed from all military media, I just can’t take it.
