I like it when I receive hate anons.
Mostly they do it because I publicly criticize hetalia artists who spread russian propaganda. I believe that it's the sign that deep inside, they understand that what they are doing is wrong, is bringing no good. Let me explain on the example.
When my mom was the same age as me now, she had to flee her home and her parents to another country with another language, having no money, no property, no real estate, only a baby in her womb - because she spoke Belaruthian, not russian. It happened when Lukashenko has gained power, thus, a few years before first chapter of hetalia was published. It took mom long enough to become a functional person again, and of course, such repressions has left her with irreparable psychological damage.
A few weeks before February 2022, when russia was already gaining troops at the border, I suggested for us to go somewhere for a while. Many people like me were anxious for their loved ones enough to go closer to Western border or even abroad, but many people didn't want to believe there would be war. They didn't want to give up on their homes, on environment, on connections, on everything they have gained so far. It was especially difficult for my mom to accept, who had to build her new home from zero. Till the very last day, she was really angry, REALLY mad at me for saying there was gonna be a war, that was not a reaction of a normal person. She denied any news, any voyages, she closed her eyes and ears, she called me any insults possible, she literally believed evil America was exaggerating everything to kill people's spirit - and at the day I woke up from missiles and explosions, she said "It is nothing, you just imagined that." She quickly gave up on any logic and reasoning, she was ready to put her whole family into a mortal danger if it meant she could have lived in her little peaceful world for a little longer. I'm saying it without any judgement. Only a terrifyingly cruel person may say leaving your home is easy. Three days later, she accepted the reality and we went to the west. Nevertheless, the fact that we weren't killed back then like some of my coursemates is really a miracle.
And this is the same mechanism which works in people's heads whenever they commit crimes against humanity. As long as their little world is not questioned, is not scattered, as long as they believe what they do is a right thing to do - they are ready to crucify, rape and burn people alive. This is the mechanism which made Christianity work, this is the mechanism which made nazism and communism work, and this is also the mechanism which makes people still draw hetalia soviet siblings, countryhumans and other bullshit. As long as they believe they are doing no harm by simple drawings, they are gonna continue on this (and do harm).
And the fact that some people's feelings are put in chaos because of me saying, "Glorifying mass murderers is bad" means these people are more susceptible to change among the hopeless. They are more likely to question their actions, and their morals are more unstable. Which means, if I make enough mantra-like posts about moral basics, it's gonna be remained somewhere in their cortex. Repetition is the mother of learning. Actually, that's what reading good books should do, but I know kids nowadays don't like reading that much.
One of anon hater sent me something like, "Imagine to believe that Hidekaz Himaruya is responsible for the war😂" - actually, he is. For many years, he has been selling hetalia to russia, he still does, in fact - and russia has been spreading hetalia to the western countries who did business with russia. This is why this manga is more well-known in Belarus and Ukraine than in, e.g., Lithuania and Estonia. But of course the main consumer still remains to be russia. Back then in 2010s, his main audience was 10-15 years old, nowadays it's already of conscription age, and many of them go to kill and rape Ukrainians and Belaruthians because we are "russia's sisters abducted by evil west". Because one Japanese retarded who spreads his manga worldwide cannot be wrong! He's a foreigner and known in America!
Thus, yes, Hidekaz Himaruya, as a propagandist paid by russia, is partially responsible for russians committing genocide, he is responsible for the deaths of my pets and he's responsible for my mom having to go through all this nightmare all over again, for my grandma's tears, and he is also responsible for my father aging 30 years just in 5. That man is responsible for so many miseries my family has to go through - and let me tell you, we're not in the worst, actually. 90% of Eastern Europeans who know about hetalia desire for public Himaruya's "decapitato". I will shake the hand of whoever gets enough guts and money to kill him.
And the fact that people attack me with hate anons simply means they are terrified. They are terrified to be put in one basket with Really bad stuff, and denying you are in the "Really bad stuff" club is, of course, easier than accepting that you, your friends and hundreds of people around you support Really bad stuff. But believe me, no matter how they defend each other and their "ideology", they are gonna be called "Guys Who Did Really Bad Stuff" 10-20 years later in history textbooks because that's how the things always end.
However, it's never late to realise you were wrong, to quit of a bad habit. It is never pointless to educate people, to repeat that bad stuff is bad, as much as it's never pointless to repeat that smoking and drinking alcohol is bad for your health. My feelings are not hurt if a patient of mine gets angry for the "quit smoking trash" prescription, same goes for hate anons. If there's hate, there's hope.
