Attention guys, a very important post.
You might know that I’m Russian.
You might also know that Russian troops attacked Ukraine 12 days ago.
What you might not know is:
- Russia and Ukraine are closely related by blood, millions of Russians have Families in Ukraine. Parents, siblings, children, friends! My friends call their families there sitting in the basement unable to get out, we are all trying to connect them to services and volunteers who can help, there’s constant work with information exchange. Hundreds of Russians spend their days on the phone calling cars to help Ukrainians leave dangerous regions, volunteer giving up work and school. Others collect clothes and supplies for Ukrainian refugees who come to Russia. Russians who live abroad move to Poland to help accept the Ukrainian refugees. At first we donated money to Ukraine as well, but we had to stop and I’ll tell you why a bit later. IT’S OUR FAMILIES! OUR LOVED ONES! BEING KILLED FOR OUR TAXES! No one asked us!!!!!!!
- Many Russian soldiers are basically Stolen and sent to Ukraine secretly. Their mothers don’t know where they are. The government doesn’t tell them. It also hides bodies and doesn’t tell us how many soldiers have died on our side, how many surrendered etc. Parent comities have been trying to get any information for almost two weeks now. No results
- MILLIONS of Russians do not support what the Russian government is doing. We are PROTESTING. Hundreds of thousands of people protest EVERY SINGLE DAY since the 24th of February in different cities all over the country. The biggest protest so far took place on the 6th of March. Do you think peaceful demonstrations here are safe to attend? No, there’s Violence, protesters get thrown on the ground, beaten up, their bones broken. Over 13 000 Russians have been ARRESTED during protests. ALL the detentions houses in Moscow and St Petersburg are FULL, the police takes people to those outside the cities. When you protest you can get fired or kicked out of a university. In prison people are getting Tortured! Those who can’t protest send money to lawyer organizations who help arrested and imprisoned. These organizations do not have enough people so many lawyers volunteer to help, even students who study law join them to support the protests. Beside all this, we are signing petitions, writing open letters, sending Piles of papers to the government asking them to stop the military action. The man who initiated the biggest anti-war petition (1,196,697 signatures when I’m writing this post), Leo Ponamaryov, got arrested when the petition hit 1000000 signatures.
- it is now illegal in Russia to send money to Ukraine, supporting the ‘enemy state’ is officially considered TREASON. it is now forbidden to distribute “fake information” and to call the military action in Ukraine a war. If you say it’s a war and not a ‘military operation’ you get 15 years in prison. All the independent media resources who post anything rather than official information got closed! TVRain, Moscow Echo, The Novaya newspaper, Znak, The BBC, dozen of others are now blocked: their social media and websites, they are now fleeing Russia as fast as they can to protect their families and not to get imprisoned.
- Mr P he-whos-name-you-shouldn’t-say does Not listen to people. We have AUTOCRACY, we have DICTATORSHIP. Mr P has been president for 22 years now with an only replacement by a puppet staying a prime minister at the time. I have never had a different president, I was born in 1999. It’s always been him. He’s had no right to be in power for another term after many years but he CHANGED THE CONSTITUTION in 2020. All our elections are FALSIFIED.
- Life of Russian citizens has been pretty hard, getting harder every year. You can’t be publicly gay, if you’re a media and you have coworkers in other countries you are considered a FOREIGN AGENT, people get IMPRISONED for reposts on social media. You remember Yulia Tsvetkova, you remember the Khachaturyan sisters who asked the police to help them for years and they did not do anything. Four students (DOXA editors) have been under home arrest for a year now for making a video supporting protests in which they revised the Constitution. The Constitution exists but doesn’t work here by the way ;) a priest got arrested yesterday for saying killing other people is a sin. Come on guys, we don’t have basic human rights. Do you think we have a voice?
What I am writing this for?
- please donate to Ukraine if you live abroad. You can do it, we can’t
- if you send me a receipt of your donation of any sum I will draw you a sketch.
- if you live in Europe go to countries bordering Ukraine. Help them accept refugees.
- TELL YOUR GOVERNMENTS TO DO SOMETHING! I’ve donated all I fucking could, I only have 3k roubles left and it’s 21,53 euros you guys. YOU HAVE MORE POWER AND MORE VOICE! DONT LOOK AT ME, DO SOMETHING I BEG YOU
- if you want to support Russian protests (if you think we don’t do enough) donate to OVD-info, Apology, other helping organizations. If you need links, I will provide
- if you think I am personally guilty in killing Ukrainians please read ‘1984’ by Orwell, ‘US’ by Zamyatin and maybe revise what an autocracy is.
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