Wind of Power

I'm Ukrainian, and this is about Ukraine The best way out is always through ukr | eng

[goamazons]

Will Baba Yaga, the guide of the dead, cross the line of beyond to save her new friends? Will she dare challenge Death itself for something she has never even imagined she'd cherish more than her life...?

UNTIL DEATH TAPS YOU ON THE SHOULDER

Via Riverfolkbooks (book cover by a talented Ukrainian artist, Sad Knight). If you read the book, let us know what you think 😉

Get your copy here

[windofpower]

In case you are looking for a Ukrainian book about the Russian invasion 2022, like reading YA epistolary fantasy fiction full of fun, epic and magic 😉

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Ukraine. A Girl with Geese. By Nikolai Bodarevsky, 1892.

[gaykarstaagforever]

Remember when Weatern media called Zelenskyy "Ukraine's John Stewart"?

Lol.

Abandoned by the world, facing impossible odds on paper. And he yells at the dipshit US President in person on live TV, and finds a way to not only hold off a supposedly superior enemy, but go on the offensive. On a budget.

The West virtually giving up on Ukraine will be considered one of the most shameful things in world history. But Ukraine didn't let it get them down. Zelenskyy didn't lose hope. He got a fuckton of drones, and went on the offensive.

I hope John Stewart is proud that he was ever once compared to this man.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

2nd June 2026: Students of The Australian Ballet School perform a Ukrainian Hutsul dance at a concert in Melbourne.

The school's character dance teacher is Melanie Moravski Dechnicz, who is a former performer with Virsky, Ukraine's most famous dance company. X

[tiggymalvern]

Ukrainian Oliynykova speaks out about war at home after French Open loss to Russian

Ukrainian player Oleksandra Oliynykova has vowed to keep speaking out about the war at home after losing to Russian player Diana Shnaider in

“I know that some people disagree with my actions. I know that some people would prefer that I stay silent. But what I do is not about politics, it’s about humanity,” Oliynykova said. “When people are being killed, while children are dying, when violence is justified or celebrated, we cannot pretend that nothing is happening. We cannot look away.”

Speaking on Thursday, ahead of their third-round match, she accused Shnaider of liking Russian propaganda posts on social media and vehemently criticized her for playing in a Gazprom-sponsored exhibition tournament in Russia. Oliynykova called Gazprom a company which has been “financing the war crimes,” and added that “my home is being attacked by Gazprom money.”

“This war, it defines my life, because my future is in Ukraine,” she said. “My father, he’s coming back to the army. My boyfriend, he’s a soldier. Everything in my life is defined by war.”

[kobzars]

Cossack Mamai is a symbol of the Ukrainian spirit, the embodiment of freedom, wisdom and indomitability. His image is unique to Ukrainian culture. The Cossack is most often depicted with a kobza and a saber.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Dawn over Pip Ivan, Maramureș Mountains in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.

June 2016

[vintage-ukraine]

Kharkiv on a vintage postcard, 1916

[bavovniatko]

Westerners say It's not ruzzian war it's putin's war...

It must be a true marvel of modern cloning. Every single night, thousands of little putins bravely march out to load the artillery shells. A whole squadron of putins sits at the control desks, carefully aiming ballistic missiles at children's hospitals and power grids. And let's not forget the flock of putins actively piloting kamikaze drones into residential apartment blocks at 3 AM.

The sheer multitasking required is phenomenal!

And thank goodness the enlightened West has figured out this brilliant loophole. Since we’ve collectively agreed that the other 140 million people are just helpless, innocent bystanders tragically caught in the crossfire of the tanks they built and drove, it makes perfect sense to keep rolling out the red carpet.

Why should anyone face actual consequences, social isolation, or a boycott? As long as the West keeps furiously whitewashing the blatant complicity of an entire society, we can all enjoy the gymnastics finals with a perfectly clear conscience.

Just keep repeating the comfortable mantra to sleep at night: the drones fly themselves, the bombs drop by magic, and it's all just one very, very busy man's fault.

[folklorespring]

Procession of Bush in Polissia region

[vintage-ukraine]

The Gifts of the Earth by Hanna Samutina, 1987

[theconcealedweapon]

[wintersmitth]

The OP is an idiot, and every person who reblogged this is also an idiot.

You think you 'care' about human lives? You don't give a single shit about victims of communism. Rot in hell.

[fatalwamod]

Checked the comments to understand the general opinion of the majority and... It's bad. I am going to be honest, people who say "most communist countries are not ACTUALLY communist, they are totalitarian dictatorships" sound just as stupid as people who say "no, you don't understand, capitalism works AS A SYSTEM, it's just that we, people, have ruined it".

And the reason y'all sound stupid is because there is no point in stating that "REAL communism ACTUALLY works, it's just that people do bad stuff and slap the name on top of it" BECAUSE the name was developed BY the people who do bad stuff. Like, the repressions and the confiscation of food, and ethnic cleansing, and imposing ONE culture onto everybody to homogenise the population are all features, not bugs. People who did it CALLED IT communism.

You can't take the concept of a dog and then say "actually, dogs don't bark, those are disgusting monsters you are calling dogs, REAL dogs are perfect creatures who politely discuss music with you during dinner".

[marichka]

I really like ukranian outfits and I also like to draw it! I think soon you will see more folk illustration because I can’t not to draw it.

I hope you will like it!

[theconcealedweapon]

[wintersmitth]

The OP is an idiot, and every person who reblogged this is also an idiot.

You think you 'care' about human lives? You don't give a single shit about victims of communism. Rot in hell.

[rametarin]

The reason they oppose communism is specifically because it doesn't work. It's an inherently corrupt system that rewards sycophants that will pretend everything is right either because of rose tinted lenses and idealism, or because they have something to gain by being in The Party.

Communism didn't fail because of "state capitalism." It didn't fail because Eastern Europeans are just incapable of implementing it. It fails because it eats everything, manages poorly, refuses to accept it's not a good fit and insists NATURE ITSELF must conform to its idealism, or else nature itself is out of line and needs correcting. It cannot function.

And everywhere it goes, it runs people into the ground for generations, making everything worse, every generation, infecting neighbors and insisting, "if we just force MORE PEOPLE to interact with this system, if we all just tighten our belts more and more, it WILL work (probably!)" Just for people to die in droves so some proud commisar can brag falsely about their accomplishments and raise bogus assed museums and historical societies about the false achievements.

Cuba wasn't destroyed or checked by the US. It was an artificial society upheld solely through Russian and then other infusions of gasoline and diesel. And every time communism fails, they sniff, turn their noses up and say, "It didn't work, therefore, it wasn't real communism." Or blame the CIA for the failures, or say it wasn't given enough time to mature.

Socialism is a noxious and infectious disease that despoils healthy economies and trades the future for strutting and preening today, in ways worse than the most consumerist and flippant of capitalist ones. It's all of the toxic industrial excess with none of the functional government to reverse-course and deal with the corruption, because the state becomes the industry becomes the entrenched corporate interests with no checks or real interest in changing. A devil in a hell you cannot try and is beholden only to itself and its own best interests, not best practices.

And then they have the audacity to scream about red scare and red terror while inventing how all their opposition "must be" fascists.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

4th June 2024: Fire in Dnipro, Ukraine city after a russian attack.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

4th June 2022: Photograph taken during US Ambassador Brink's visit to ruined Borodianka. russian occupying troops withdrew on the 30th of March.

[canberramaidan]

Shevchenko Park in Kharkiv, Ukraine. June 2016.