TLDR:
Русский военный корабль иди нахуй.
Путин хуйло.
Нет войне.
Dear reader
Be careful what you wish for
My whole present self has been constructed around the idea of escape. Escape from the bleak miserable oppressive sludge that was reality into pure fiction. It worked, for years. I've carried my own little heart of darkness in the trunk, while fiction took hold of the driver's seat.
Luckily enough sludge isn't distributed evenly all over, just Russia in particular is a perpetual geizer of it. So I've stayed away, by sheer luck at first, more consciously later and lived happily enough. Came back every now and again to see the people I love, my best closest friends, my family.
Never too long though, every time I got stuck my experience only firmed my desire to stay out.
Russia produces industrial quantities of misery.
Eat it and smile, tovarich.
I've tried making peace with it, I've come up emptier every time.
Leviathan is insatiable.
And I'm never coming back.
***
Now to the current events.
The government that holds my friends and family hostage has started a war because it is basically a pack of criminals whose competence lies in lies (ha), theft and now that they think they can get away with it - murder.
Absurd, irredeemable loss of thousands of lives, destruction of millions’, bombing civilians and these cowardly shits can't even call things by their proper names. This is a war, unprovoked, unconscionable, a crime on international scale.
To what end?
To please another “Charismatic Leader” treating Russia like it's a keg of fuel for his historiosophic ambition?
To finally test all those guns we've been telling everyone about in combat?
To distract the people from manipulated elections/rising number of prisoners of conscience/failing economy/rising costs of living and other internal issues?
To show how fucking edgy Russia is and remind the world it still has world's largest stockpile of nuclear missiles?
Blow up some schools?
My life savings, me and my family worked years for are at a real risk of turning into papier mache, some politician’s son weekly allowance or possibly nothing at all.
In the course of a single week
Russian ruble became basically worthless.
Russian banking system completely isolated.
Russian passport holders now international pariahs.
Most foreign businesses packed and left.
Dozens of countries pulled diplomatic relations.
The list goes on forever and gets longer by the minute.
Even if they pulled the plug on the Baldielocks, sent everyone golden diamond incrusted “I'm sorry” postcards, completely rebuilt all damages TODAY it'd take years, maybe decades to return to the pre-war normal middling status quo.
And no one will bring back the dead.
Meanwhile life in Russia is turning into a cross between North Korea and Fascist Italy.
Reading Orwell at 16 I didn't know he wasn't speaking in metaphors. Freedom today really is Slavery, War is Peace and we were indeed always at war with Oceania.
A lie is the opposite of truth.
Whenever the Russian government mouthpieces announce they will NOT do X that means X is imminent like there's some Soviet Murphy's Law.
Dictatorships apparently do not require imagination, just force.
Good luck living in Siberian Cuba, searching for jeans and японские магнитолы all over again.
Good luck getting that travel permit, because once they've tasted how much power war gives them - they won't stop.
Good luck small businesses, export/importers, digital nomads.
Good luck to us all.
***
The boot on the face of Russia is not forever.
Disobey, leave, boycott, if you have things worth fighting for - fight. Disobey. Disrespect, disregard their authority.
Let them choke on their own shit.
They are pathetic without you.
All the love.
Until I've burnt my passport.
Fedor Gorshkov
