Politics                        Ohmatdyt                    10 July 2024


   This is the name of the largest children's hospital in Ukraine, which
   was ruthlessly bombed by Russia two days ago.  At the time of the
   attack, 627 children were in the hospital building.  Honestly, I
   neglected these news the day before yesterday: after two years of
   constant gloom, you get used to the continuous stream of bad news and
   begin to ignore even the most tragic events.  I am writing this to
   emphasize that we must continue to speak out about the crimes of the
   Russian regime and under no circumstances remain silent.  Not for a
   second.  Even if it seems like no one will hear this cry.

   What is happening now is horrific and, of course, it should not be
   happening, because it should never happen under any circumstances.
   People should not suffer and die for no reason just because some
   bastard like Putin and his gang of henchmen had a mad whim and
   decided to take revenge for the failure of their "Blitzkrieg" in
   February 2022.  What worries me more is the indifferent tone with
   which some of my acquaintances in Russia, whose minds are swayed by
   propaganda, speak about this terrible tragedy.

   - I wonder if you can continue to support Putin after Ohmatdyt?  - I
   ask one of my acquaintances, to which she retorts:

   - Yes.  I wonder how long you will keep asking such questions?

   Two years ago, at the very beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion
   of Ukraine, right after I was detained by the police after my anti-
   war protest at the building of the presidential administration of
   Russia in Moscow, I called my uncle and asked him a simple question:

   - Tell me, are you for or against the war with Ukraine?

   His answer was as affirmative and simple as possible:

   - I am, of course, for it.

   I still cannot put into words all the devastation I feel now.  I am
   increasingly alarmed by the speed with which Russian society, driven
   by the voices of propaganda, is plunging into the abyss.  I am
   increasingly frightened by how quickly everything human within a
   person fades away and how quickly and easily they cling to evil.  But
   this does not mean that all is lost.  We are witnessing a tragedy of
   incredible scale, but we must remember that there are incomparably
   more of us who are against this cruelty and violence than that bunch
   of deranged killers and their sympathisers.

   I donated some money from my personal savings to the Ohmatdyt
   Foundation, and I personally wish the criminals of Putin's regime and
   Putin himself to burn in hell.  Magna est veritas, et praevalebit.





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