THE WAR: After the End of History

A silent book about the collapse of a world we believed in. I watched a world collapse. This book is what remained.

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“It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company: For victory in battle standeth not in the multitude of an host; but strength cometh from heaven.” Maccabees 3:18–19

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“We will not serve your gods.” — Daniel 3:18

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INTERLUDE

Voice from 2014 / 2022

We Will Never Be Brothers Никогда мы не будем братьями

Text: Anastasia Dmitruk Music: Virginijus Pupšys Performed by: Virginijus Pupšys • Jeronimas Milius • Kęstutis Nevulis Arrangement/Direction: Gintautas Litinskas

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English translation below: We’ll never be brothers neither by home nor by mother. You do not have the spirit to be free – we do not even become consolidated with you. You have christened yourself "senior" - We would be younger, but not yours. You are so many of, but sorry,   You are faceless. You are huge,   we are great.   And you press ...  you all toil,   You’ll be choked by your own envy.  Liberty is a word unfamiliar to you,   You are all chained up since childhood.   At your home "silence is gold",  And here we burn Molotov cocktails,   Yes, we have hot blood in our hearts,   What are you to us for "relatives" blind?   And we all have fearless eyes,   Without weapons, we are dangerous.   We grew older and became bolder  The snipers have us all under their sights.  They used to put the hangmen on our knees –   We rebelled and fixed everything.   And in vain the rats hiding, and praying –  They’ll wash with their own blood.   New instructions are being sent to you –  And here we have the fires of rebellion.   You have a Tsar, but we have -   Democracy.   We’ll never be brothers.

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“For our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.” — Lamentations 5:2

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“A nation shall come against you from afar… a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.” — Deuteronomy 28:49–50

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“They worshiped the work of their own hands.” — Psalm 115

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“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.” — Isaiah 5:20

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“She bore Cain… and she bore his brother Abel.” — Genesis 4:1–2

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“And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good.” — Genesis 1:31

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24 February 2022

2,874 days of denying reality led here.

THE WAR — the one that was not supposed to be.

They said the End of History had come. It hadn’t.

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