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Someone from central or eastern Europe: “yeah my grandparents hoard a lot of food because when they were kids during the soviet era, they frequently didn’t have enough food”
random western leftist: “hm :/ you didn’t provide a university level essay complete with at least 15 citations (approved by me) nor specified what era you were talking about. Yeah I think this is anti-communist, US propaganda :/ you should kys”
love it when USians and other assorted westerners go, "Cold War era propaganda!" when it's someone from the other side of the former iron curtain telling them how wrong they are about their emotional support regime.
Will they ever stop westsplaining? It's a shame that western commentators continue to routinely describe countries that were forced to spend a tiny fraction of their history as part of the Soviet Union, or the Soviet bloc, as "former Soviet" or "post-Soviet" or "ex-Soviet satellite" states, even though the USSR has been dead as a dodo for decades.
Strangely enough, you'll never see the same people referring to "the former Nazi state of Germany", or "America, the former slave-trading British colony", or even "Moscow, the former provincial Mongolian village".
Hopefully, condescending terms like "former Soviet", the stereotypes that go with them and the pernicious idea that these independent countries still somehow belong to "Russia's sphere of influence", will eventually disappear as they continue to develop and evolve, but I'm not holding my breath….
Every. Single.Time.
Without fail:
Summary:
Being Ukrainian, born in Russia, with family friends in both countries is an insane experience. A literal distillation of convos from the last few months:
Ukrainians: We haven’t had a full night of sleep since February. No running water for months now, and now the electricity goes out. They’re bombing us non-stop. They aim for the houses at night, and the city center and offices and schools during the day, to kill as many civilians as possible. I sent my daughter to relative safety in Kyiv, but I don’t want to leave my mother, who had a stroke due to war-induced stress and is paralyzed. The hospitals wouldn’t take her because they were full of war casualties. She lies in bed and we hope that a missile doesn’t strike our building, because she can’t go to the bomb shelter. I’ll try to call you next time we get electricity.
Russians: Ugh its so expensive to travel to Turkey right now, we decided to take a two week holiday in Sochi instead. It’s not as nice but we have to persevere. Oh, what’s that? The news? I try not too pay too much attention to it when I’m using my VPN to access instagram and twitter, it just makes me soo sad. You know I’m not political. Hopefully this little war-sy is over soon, because I have to redecorate my house and Ikea is still closed.
Westerners whose entire political philosophy is “vibes” and who think cyrillic is a type of salad: yeah, yeah. bombing, missiles, blah BLAH yawn. Frankly the real war crime is being mean to Russians on the internet.
people who say crap like "oh they speak and write on english and their signs for protests are also on english, they must be american agents". im full of rage everytime i see this. people want the world to understand them, what they like, what they dislike, what they want, what they fight for. they want you to know what's happening and what they care about. all you say is "eh, idk, they look like CIA" just because of the signs in english due to the fact that english is an international language (ask yourself why and how it happened, by the way). if the signs weren't in english, i'm pretty sure you wouldn't care at all. people want to be heared by the rest of the world, and they choose your language because there isn't any other option (again, ask yourself WHY). you immediately assume it's american agents because of that the only option they have. you fucking morons.
Getting very annoyed with the screeching how "libs and centrists are, if not borderline fascists, handmaidens for fascism" when it's always, always self-proclaimed leftists you catch dick-riding and sympathising with the most-authoritarian right-wing movements imaginable. But yeah, horseshoe theory isn't real.
