#Eastern Europe!

[amerasdreams]

there are still some Aramaic speakers and some of them are in Ukraine!

[rienafoutre]

[safespacepol]

owczarek gdyński

[rosechata]

Bâlea Lake, Romania

[gorskivijenac]

serbian girl among the meadows of drvar, bosnia and herzegovina. photographed by petar dešić.

[ravenkings]

i know this is hashtag cringelib shit (and i don't fucking care tbh) but believe me when i say that vladimir putin is probably the actual most evil person on the planet currently. you can hem and haw and try to be ~edgy~ and say that whichever us president is just as bad blah blah blah but the fact is that, even notwithstanding the horrors he is currently perpetrating in ukraine and has also perpetrated in places like syria, chechnya, multiple nations in africa, etc. vladimir putin actively orchestrated the complete suppression of his own country through turning it into a true mafia state and also has most likely been involved in (or even orchestrated) multiple examples of state terrorism IN RUSSIA ITSELF in order to start wars or to cause fear to consolidate his own power.

furthermore he's assassinated an ever-increasing list of people who stood against him and frequently IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

like there is ultimately no way to negotiate with that man, and not even just for moral reasons but because the first chance he gets HE WILL FUCK YOU OVER. anyone who is suggesting (ahem donald trump ahem) that he is a reasonable actor who you can ""do business with"" either thinks he's in cahoots with him, is subservient to him, or is just fucking stupid (and i'm sure the current us president falls into all three categories.)

i know this is obvious to many but i do still feel like there are some reasonable though uninformed people who think that if a ceasefire in ukraine is brokered now, even on russia's terms, that it would still be a preferable option for ukraine.

i'm telling you RIGHT FUCKING NOW (with almost 30 years of prior evidence to go on) the second he gets a chance to regroup, putin would break that fucking ceasefire and try to seize the entire country once again just like in 2022 and this time, does literally ANYONE see ukraine getting sufficient help to fend him off then?????

and trust me, being under russian occupation under putin would probably lead to EVEN MORE torture and rape and bloodshed and cruelty (as we have EXTREMELY ample evidence of) than continuing the war and giving ukraine a fighting chance would.

the only way to think of vladimir putin and the only way to treat him is like a mad dog who needs to be put down because, at the end of the day, that is all he is.

[ya-nje-znayu]

First Light

Last Light

[diamondtrashangel]

[kazhanko-art]

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”

[amerasdreams]

ha! I wondered where it was from. Since I found the Russian word for "work" sounds similar to robot. It is from a Czech scifi writer Karel Čapek.

[rienafoutre]

[safespacepol]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Fedir Krychevsky (Ukrainian, 1879-1947) Bride, 1910 National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv

[zoyazoy]

(OLD ART !) My collection of Ukraine folk dress I draw years ago

One of the country that sparked my love for folk dress of European. Huge love !

[meanpersonaart]

Kolęda - during winter months in Poland, just after Christmas and even after New Years you can be visited by a group of wandering carolers (kolędnicy) who go door to door, singing christmas carols and pastorałki , wishing health and good fortune for the occupants of the house (in exchange of small fee of money or something good to eat). The characters seen in the group vary depending on the region of Poland, but most of the time we can meet - a Death, a Devil, an Angel, an Old man (dziad) or old woman (baba), someone could see a King, a bearer of the colourful star that make them more visble, but almost always you will meet Turoń - a bovine like creature with large mouth and horns, opening and closing it's mouth threathningly. Then again, it's also a custom in other eastern european countries so the lineup may be different. These ones look friendly, right? Why don't you let them in?

(watercolour on paper, digital re-touch)

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[valealunii]

the crows I run into on a field