#I Love Russia

[tbma-whitewing]

Если кто-то не знал, то я живу в России. Я более чем счастлива этому факту и более чем горжусь им ведь по моему мнению Россия - одна из самых лучших, красивых, умных, искринних, могучих (сильных) и справедливый стран мира, если не самая самая лучшая. И я очень (очень много раз очень) рада и горда тем фактом что я Рождена не в Америке, не в евроме, не в Азии а именно в России где помнят, чтут и заботятся о своей истории, традициях и культурах. Нет земли мне роднее и ближе чем Русская, самая большая, самая красивая, самая необычная земля где было все что можно и войны большинство из которых мы блестящие выигрывали (проигранные Россией войны можно по пальцам пересчитать. Кстати, 2ю мировую мы по факту тоже выйграли, потому что Рейхстаг взяли именно мы, не Америка, а Россия. Просто из войны этой вышли потому что Япония с другой стороны напала. Не удобно воевать на 2 фланга в разных концах страны знаете ли), и революции, и смута, и учёные великие, и искусство бессмертное!

Я люблю свою страну и ни за что от неё не откажусь. Даже если она будет в 10000 раз хуже других стран, я не брошу её так же, ��ак мать не бросает ребёнка. Ведь мне моя страна - мать родная. И дела��те с этим что хотите! 😊❤️✨🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[ninja-muse]

I Love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko is an incredible book about terrible things. It's devastatingly sad. It's traumatic. It's enraging. It's terrifying. It's thoroughly real and absolutely necessary.

Every chapter of this book looks at another aspect of Russian life that doesn't make the official news or at a segment of society that's marginalized. Often it's both. Most of this is portrayed in real-time, memoir-style recounting so you're right there with Kostyuchenko as she's going places and talking to people. There's relatively little factual research outside her experiences and relatively little opining, but also there doesn't need to be. This is plenty powerful without that and her points come across clearly.

And the point is that life is Russia is awful for a lot of people. Kostyuchenko talks to street kids casually discussing abortion options at 13, spends a shift with a shack of sex workers, visits a toxic dump site and an Indigenous Siberian community with a high suicide rate, lives two weeks in a facility housing the disabled and mentally ill, and that's just some of it. It probably goes without saying, but there are a lot of content warnings in this book. It took me two weeks to read because I could only manage 20-30 pages at a time.

The other point is Russia is a country we should be worried about. There's a real sense here of how tightly wound and corrupt and apathetic the government is, of the complete distrust so many people have in it, of the double-speak and cover-ups to maintain control, of the ways all of it dehumanizes and disenfranchises people, of how hard it is to fight back and do the right thing in the face of it all. It's not a country anyone should want to live in, and a system too many countries are sliding towards. This book is a warning.

I want to recommend this book to everyone because it's important and it's excellent, but it's too emotionally difficult for that. Instead, I'll simply say please read it if you're interested and think you're up for it, and recommend it to whoever you can. It's also a book I'm breaking my usual habits for: this is a 10 out of 10, no question.

[hauntaholicc]

Русский плейлист

HERE'S MY RUSSIAN PLAYLIST! There's the Sematary inspired songs on it. 🖤🚬🇷🇺 It includes Blazergosicko! (Russian Sematary)

[the-final-sentence]

But just me.

Elena Kostyuchenko, from I Love Russia

[kittycutiesh1t]

❤

[eelo]

[eti-mun]

Please read thanks

[snoozerin]

Repost cuz my stupid lil gif got all crunched up

[nalidyne]

“I didn't call, didn't open the door and didn't sleep

I almost choked you, but I ignored your words

Again, it feels like my head is spinning around

My marmalade, I messed up”

[syatuoi]

PSYCHO IVAN WE ARE WINNING SO FUCKING HARD HELL YEAH. WOW

[ivanscarf]

korol and lao da

[zakuramochi]

Hetalia World Stars ★ Gangsta (Chapter 5) English Translation!

Relatively short chapter this week...! Based on the speaking style on the last page, the next player seems to be England...!

[sovietpostcards]

I MADE BLINIS

I have two packages of condensed milk - I bought a cheap brand and a more expensive brand to try and see if there's a difference (there is!) And I have sour cream for when it gets too sweet.

Happy Maslenitsa week! :D

[pin4tre]

Too lazy to render the whole thing

[romatito]

did the heta dtiys meme bc unfortunately i dont think id draw some of these guys otherwise. my faves are all side characters 🫥🫥🫥

[aph-america]

Important Powerpoint PLEASE READ!!!

Thank you for reading. Hopefully you understand and now will join the army of spreading the bbygurl Ivan Braginsky agenda