eastern-anarchist

[eastern-anarchist]

Look, I respect Chomsky in general and think that he has a lot of good ideas (like, I used them in my bachelor's thesis…. yes….), but I admit that his position on the current war is a complete failure and detachment from reality.

In my opinion, the fact that Jordan Peterson and Noam Chomsky have almost identical views on the war in Ukraine (they both believe that the main responsibility for the war on the US) speaks more not about right and left ideologies, but about how much Westerners limited by their own context. This blog was created under the impression that people from Western Europe and the US don't know ANYTHING about Eastern Europe and, most importantly, a lot of them don't want to know more, and the war only proved this!

[eastern-anarchist]

Okay, for the last 1.5 months I've been trying to fight the "delayed life syndrome" and do "normal" things despite the war - working, cooking, cleaning my dorm room, ordering pizza, buying dishes and new clothes. But I still can't wait for the news: "The war is over, Ukraine has won!" and I will go out with all the other Kyiv people to the evening streets!

#war in ukraine #eastern europe #ukraine #no war in ukraine #no war to ukraine #no war

[eastern-anarchist]

Friendly reminder that if you call Eastern Europeans ‘snowflakes’ for not laughing at your war memes, you’re not quirky, you’re just a fucking asshole.

And you don’t get to tell us to ‘take a joke’ about a war that is happening few km from our borders (for non Ukrainians balkans).

If the war is not affecting you, your families, your friends or your other close ones, stop the ‘but this is my coping mechanism 🥺’ bullshit.

[eastern-anarchist]

In my opinion, the fact that Jordan Peterson and Noam Chomsky have almost identical views on the war in Ukraine (they both believe that the main responsibility for the war on the US) speaks more not about right and left ideologies, but about how much Westerners limited by their own context. This blog was created under the impression that people from Western Europe and the US don't know ANYTHING about Eastern Europe and, most importantly, a lot of them don't want to know more, and the war only proved this!

#eastern europe #western europe #ukraine #russian invasion #no war #jordan peterson #noam chomsky #right wing #left wing #us #eu #westerns

[eastern-anarchist]

Video about Ukrainian Greeks with English subs

A story about the destruction of ethnic diversity that you might not have heard of

At the end of March, the Greek Foreign Minister  Nikos Dendias proposed to lead an aid mission to Mariupol. This story has gone almost unnoticed, despite the importance of this moment. Why, in general, would a high-ranking official from another country agree to such a dangerous mission? Because the Donetsk region and especially the environs of Mariupol are the place of residence of the Greeks of the Azov region. This is an ethnic group, numbering about 90,000 people, which, according to the linguistic composition, is divided into Rumeians and Urums. During the founding of Mariupol, the town was inhabited mainly by Urums. The Greeks have lived in these places since the 18th century and have maintained their culture and identity to this day. But now it isn't known whether we can talk about the Greek ethnic minority in Ukraine, which lives compactly.

#Youtube

[eastern-anarchist]

A story about the destruction of ethnic diversity that you might not have heard of

At the end of March, the Greek Foreign Minister  Nikos Dendias proposed to lead an aid mission to Mariupol. This story has gone almost unnoticed, despite the importance of this moment. Why, in general, would a high-ranking official from another country agree to such a dangerous mission? Because the Donetsk region and especially the environs of Mariupol are the place of residence of the Greeks of the Azov region. This is an ethnic group, numbering about 90,000 people, which, according to the linguistic composition, is divided into Rumeians and Urums. During the founding of Mariupol, the town was inhabited mainly by Urums. The Greeks have lived in these places since the 18th century and have maintained their culture and identity to this day. But now it isn't known whether we can talk about the Greek ethnic minority in Ukraine, which lives compactly.

#ukraine #greece #greeks #eastern europe #no war to ukraine #no war in ukraine #russian invasion #no war #mariupol

[eastern-anarchist]

The Effect of Putin’s Propaganda Bombardment to the Russian People

(Google translator was used to translate the text, I am voicing out the cries of those who cannot speak for themselves. this is the story of my friend whose safety is in peril. i try to get this out to the world for education and encourage you to help however you can. reblogs, tags, and shares are welcome)

I am 35, a 2D artist, live in the central part of the country, in the provinces. I’m using this opportunity to try and talk about what’s going on in the country, now, since talking about it openly is dangerous for my freedom. Propaganda. We did not yet know what a huge force it was. This is not just a message about the political course of the authorities, it is not something that requires discussion or offers you a choice. This is a professionally designed scheme of actions to cover all sources of information for the average person over 40-50 years old.

This is a total pro-presidential position on every page of the newspaper, on every channel, in every article and in pop-up advertising in popular social networks; everything that can catch the eye of your old grandfather, housewife aunt, sister during her third pregnancy. Information is presented in such a way as to entertain, engage, entice, provide simple answers to complex questions, ignoring logic, for those who can and want to consume content with a lot of free time and little life experience outside of their limited “bubble”. It’s like a sect where they give you a very pleasant answer: “everything is fine, we are good people - they are bad, we had to do it, you have to endure and everything will be fine.”

​​‌‌‌‌The result is devastating. People prefer to believe the “talking head” from the TV, and not their own blood relatives.

Why do they believe? It justifies their lives, it replaces real psychotherapy. Those who lived their youth in the USSR are brought back to the past. For those who could not integrate into world European values, this gives the right to be a racist, chauvinist, homophobia, nationalist with the support of the authorities. For those who could not become “successful” (this is associated with big earnings, life in the capital or large city or in Europe), this gives the right to be proud of their “patriotism” and curse “foreign agents”. For every hidden big grievance, there is a simple answer “the enemies are to blame and the government will show you who they are.”

I recommend the documentary film Breaking Communication/Разрыв связей with English subtitles. It shows how our families are splitting, how propaganda influences. Thousands of comments confirm how true this is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qmQs2LbnaE

[eastern-anarchist]

And yes. The fact that we want a neo-liberal, populist, Islamophobic and corrupt official to remain in power because of his relatively adequate policy towards the Russian aggressor says more about the quality of European policy than about Johnson himself.

The case with Boris Johnson proves that Westerners and Eastern Europeans (leftists in particular) need to be better at communication. Message to Ukrainians: Maybe many of us don't really want to go into the subject, but Brits have MANY reasons to disrespect Boris Johnson and want him to resign. In the end, despite the image of a "friend of Ukraine", Johnson is a bright representative of the Tories. Ask yourself: who has allowed and encouraged the export of corrupt Russian money to Britain and the rise of the Russian oligarchy - particularly in London (where Johnson was a mayor) - all these years? Maybe the left wing of Labor? But no - it was the Conservative Party that stood up for business and was only happy about Russian bank accounts and real estate in Britain!

Message to the Brits: The specificity of Britain's problems is that they are often very British. The Brits themselves - including the left - are usually not able to explain their dissatisfaction with the authorities even to people from the nearest European countries, not to mention Eastern European ones. Therefore, it isn't necessary to consider Ukrainians by default as supporters of right-wing populists.

[eastern-anarchist]

The case with Boris Johnson proves that Westerners and Eastern Europeans (leftists in particular) need to be better at communication. Message to Ukrainians: Maybe many of us don't really want to go into the subject, but Brits have MANY reasons to disrespect Boris Johnson and want him to resign. In the end, despite the image of a "friend of Ukraine", Johnson is a bright representative of the Tories. Ask yourself: who has allowed and encouraged the export of corrupt Russian money to Britain and the rise of the Russian oligarchy - particularly in London (where Johnson was a mayor) - all these years? Maybe the left wing of Labor? But no - it was the Conservative Party that stood up for business and was only happy about Russian bank accounts and real estate in Britain!

Message to the Brits: The specificity of Britain's problems is that they are often very British. The Brits themselves - including the left - are usually not able to explain their dissatisfaction with the authorities even to people from the nearest European countries, not to mention Eastern European ones. Therefore, it isn't necessary to consider Ukrainians by default as supporters of right-wing populists.

#ukraine #britain #great britain #united kingdom #uk #boris johnson #tories #conservatives #politics #leftism #right wing

[eastern-anarchist]

Happy #PrideMonth Happy Kupala!

[eastern-anarchist]

One of the most invisible categories in this war is LGBT couples, where one partner is from Ukraine and the other is from Russia. The impossibility of reunification due to closed borders and the lack of a chance to be recognized as relatives in both countries, homophobia and the risk of being accused of "national betrayal" from both sides.

#lgbt #lgbtq community #ukraine #russia #no war to ukraine #no war in ukraine #no war #russian invasion #homophobia #eastern europe

[eastern-anarchist]

There are many problems with the information policy of the Ukrainian authorities, but one of those that infuriate me the most is the dichotomy "poor Russians against rich Ukrainians", "the impoverished horde plundered the rich and well-groomed Ukrainian yards." This rhetoric harms the Ukrainians themselves. You could hear a lot about crimes against civilians (not a description of military operations) in Bucha, Irpin and Mariupol, but much less about Borodianka, Popasna or villages in the Kherson region. I don't think this a coincidence. Before the war, Bucha and Irpin were suburbs of Kyiv for the middle class, who could afford to buy a new apartment and travel to Kyiv by car and live in a green and quiet satellite town. A lot of money was invested in Mariupol after 2014, including in urban beautification, it was also a city with a lot of middle class. But Borodianka, on which air bombs were dropped, is a village for locals who have lived there for generations. Wiped off the face of the earth Popasna is a small town in the Luhansk region, which after 2014 has lost its economic potential. Deep poverty and unemployment have been reigning in the villages of the Kherson region for decades. Obviously, even before the war, there were a lot of poor people in Ukraine, whose lives were complicated by neoliberal reforms (for example, in the field of medicine) and constant increases in public services. There are many depressed towns, where every year more and more facilities went bankrupt. And it's obvious that the poorest after the war will be put on the brink of survival, but the information policy now makes us think that they will be silent about them.

#ukraine #russian invasion #eastern europe #no war to ukraine #no war in ukraine #no war #inequality #classism

[eastern-anarchist]

Here you can find organizations that REALLY help Ukrainians.

The war in Ukraine further exposed the problem of big "charitable" organizations - especially the International Red Cross - and charity in general on the part of Western countries. Expired medicines, meager portions of humanitarian aid, corruption - all this existed before this year. It's just that Ukrainians have more opportunities to record what is happening than people in African countries with less access to the Internet. But the question of the right to existence of charity as such also appears. As today's events show, it's needed at critical moments (war, natural disasters, the spread of dangerous diseases), but when you have organizations with nice offices and expensive cars that have been sending humanitarian mineral water to children in Africa for decades - maybe it needs something to do with poverty rather than donate money to bureaucrats?

[eastern-anarchist]

The war in Ukraine further exposed the problem of big "charitable" organizations - especially the International Red Cross - and charity in general on the part of Western countries. Expired medicines, meager portions of humanitarian aid, corruption - all this existed before this year. It's just that Ukrainians have more opportunities to record what is happening than people in African countries with less access to the Internet. But the question of the right to existence of charity as such also appears. As today's events show, it's needed at critical moments (war, natural disasters, the spread of dangerous diseases), but when you have organizations with nice offices and expensive cars that have been sending humanitarian mineral water to children in Africa for decades - maybe it needs something to do with poverty rather than donate money to bureaucrats?

#war in ukraine #no war in ukraine #no war #no war to ukraine #red cross #russian invasion #charity #ukraine

[eastern-anarchist]

what is the best way to learn a language?

Most likely, to be in the context of the language, i.e. surround yourself with books, music, movies in the language you want to learn, and get to know native speakers. However, I'm also sure that you can't refuse the classic ways of learning a language - for example, doing grammar exercises. But most importantly, you need to have a purpose for learning a language - for working, studying, reading books, activism, etc. A foreign language can't be perfectly learned for life (even your native language is forgotten when you aren't in your own language environment).

[eastern-anarchist]

Forgive me asking, I am just checking... are you alright?

Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry, I was absent from Tumblr for a long time, because: 1) I had exams at the university (yes, students in Ukrainian universities now take exams); 2) I'm planning to get tested for bipolar disorder as I think this may be the reason for my shift from active to apathy.

[eastern-anarchist]

I think this issue needs to be discussed separately. Ukrainians don't cease to be complex people with their own needs and goals because of the war (in fact, this applies not only to Ukrainians, but also to people from other crisis regions - including those where they suffer from repression or starvation). The infalitisation and objectification of people affected by the war only irritates and, most importantly, hinders the establishment of a normal life and full-fledged relationships with other people.

All Ukrainians suffered from the war, but everyone has different situations - someone from Western Ukraine went to live with relatives in the EU on the first day of the war, and someone was deported from Mariupol to Sakhalin. Many people have not given up on their pre-war goals of going to university, getting a good job, making new friends or family, and so on. But those who come to Ukraine for PR reinforce our image of "victims of war", which will be reflected on Ukrainians in the future - on our career opportunities, representation in the media, everyday attitudes from foreigners, etc. Of course, it's very difficult for most Ukrainians right now, but there are many productive ways to help if you really want it!

#ukraine #objectification #victimization #eastern europe #no war in ukraine #no war to ukraine #no war #russian invasion