#LET'S FUCKING GO SAKARTVELO

[ohsalome]

If I may add, there is also the question of the so-called "russian culture". You can't just come to a random person on the street an order them to rape babies, they need to be primed by the propaganda machine.

Just like germans in the last century were prepared to the world war and genocide by the "superiority of the aryan race" ideology, the modern fascists of the russian state were prepared by the "superiority of the russian world" ideology. And while most people capable of conscious thought recognise and condemn the most obvious russian disinfo like russia today of perviy canal as the bloody cog in this genocide machine, its roots actually go back much, much further - at least to the time of the russian empire.

And these pillars of their ideology that lead to russians starting genocidal wars again and again and again, are barely recognised, not to mention critically examined, by anyone in russia. The idea of the "special spiritual mission of russian nation" that lets them justify any crime. Their holy triad of православие, самодержавие, народность - orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality - which always leads to nationalist despots gaining power by design. Their idea of a великий и могучий - great and mighty russian language - that leads to demeaning, oppression and destruction of other languages (of minorities in russia or countries they occupied). And all of these dangerous ideas are translated by - you guessed it - the russian culture, russian literature, russian art.

When we, people who are more familiar with rus lit than an average westerner, call for what y'all call "cancelling dostaevsky" - we are actually begging you to finally open your eyes to the obvious fact that they are the centuries-old propagandists that fuel kremlin propaganda much more effectively than kyselyov and simonyan together (ffs, he isn't called "the father of russian chauvinism" for no reason).

When western journalists invite russian pundits to speak, and those push soft Kremlin propaganda of "lifting sanctions" or whitewashing war crimes because "solders who looted homes of killed ukranian civillians are poor" - westies do it out awe of chaikovsky and tolstoy. When russian athlethes, most of whom are actual serving members of the army, are invited to compete "under neutral flag". When fucking russian war criminals are giving refuge status and fucking book deals in Europe. When TV channels that openly call for the support of russian army are invited to translate their propaganda without any restrictions in Europe. When fucking VICE gives a warm bath free speech platform interview to a fucking war criminal on the Hague's bounty list. All of this is carried on the shoulders of the "great and mighty" russian culture.

And every, every single russian who was raised in this culture carries and spreads it, like cancer. Because they still haven't proposed the alternative ideology. Even the concept of "good, democratic russia" their "liberals" propose is ingrained by the assumption that they will retain economic and cultural dominance over their "sphere of influence" - 14 countires of ex-ussr. Because they still haven't looked back on the past crimes and felt even a tinsiest bit of remorse. You'd be an idiot to believe that they "don't support the war in Ukraine" when there were dozens of such ukraines in the past, and they don't feel bad about any one of them.

Every single russian is responsible for the genocide of my people, just like they are responsible for what their army did in Chechnya, Sakartvelo, Syria, and many, many other wars. This goes much further than the basic concept of people being responsible for their country, but this too. And no amount of hiding their head into the sand of "we're small people, we can't do anything" will change that.

When you say the average Russian is responsible wdym?

For starters, because of all the war crimes the russians have committed and is still committing in Ukraine. There are currently 97,060 war crimes registered. These are committed by your average russian.

Secondly, the majority of the russians support the genocidal war in Ukraine. Some remain silent about it, but that silence supports the aggressor as well. That silence and support have allowed russia to continue to terrorize its neighbors.

russians need to be held responsible so that they, perhaps one day, understand that what they are doing is not acceptable. russia has terrorized its neighbors for way too long, and all of it went unpunished. That needs to end. russia must be punished. russians must be held responsible.