I feel your anger with this and agree that some if this is purely selfishness. Still,it’s not uncommon when living under a regime to be fearful. Protest is cultural and there’s plenty of good people in ‘free’ countries who won’t take to the streets. From birth people are conditioned- be it to support the state, worship a god or want material wealth. Hopefully humans in their hearts have more, but it won’t come easy. Best wishes
I perfectly agree, dear Tate. Every nation that carries the heritage of the Soviet system tend to be averse to demonstrations by design as they are societies built on fear and constant threatening, so it is expected that Russians have kept this Soviet element to extreme levels under Putin regime. The thing is that, for many Ukrainians, it hasn't been easy to disclose the Russian citizenry from the rulers because there are massive popular support for war, which is extremely sad and only contributes to a long-term hatred between nations, but as you pointed out, I believe that in the end the good hearts will prevail in both sides. Best wishes for you too
Oh, no. As soon as I finished writing my comment, I checked on the latest in Ukraine. Another missile strike, this time in Uman, to the west of the Dnipro. According to google, it's 155.7km from Soroca, Moldova, about 96.75 miles (I've been trying to get used to the metric system, but we Americans are a bit slow to change. I can think only in miles). "The death toll of the Russian missile strike on a residential building in Uman has risen from 10 to 12. 2 of them are young children." https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1651899039963545600?cxt=HHwWgICwnZfb3OwtAAAA
"I tried to avoid comments concerning Russian moral grounds as people, but I will give my open opinion about why you went to come to your streets and protest: because you, Russians, are just afraid to be sent to Ukraine to fight under compulsory conscription and come to die here. You go to the streets only when the war comes to a reality on your shallow lives."
Yes, Viktor. That is very much the impression of those of us in the U.S. who love Ukraine and weep every time a Ukrainian is murdered. Just this morning I found this on twitter: https://twitter.com/mykolska/status/1651897555444289536 "Mom & Daughter killed by Russian missile in Dnipro #Ukraine tonight."
Once again, with these two murders, generations have also been murdered. The mother might have had more children, who would have had children. And the daughter would have had children, who would have had children, and on and on. Generations and generations gone, just like that. Oh, beautiful mother and beautiful daughter!
Thank you for the kind words and for sharing our sadness, dear Rose. This attack in the city of Dnipro affected me personally because I was born there, but almost every Ukrainian nowadays can point out an enemy action towards their corresponding hometown. Instead of weakening us, however, it reaffirms our attitude and our necessity to defeat this nasty regime of Russia.
Thank you Wendy, it's curious that they invaded us also claiming that Ukrainians and Russians are brothers, part of the same family. Couldn't be more disgusting.
Slavi Ukraine 🇺🇦 ♥️
I feel your anger with this and agree that some if this is purely selfishness. Still,it’s not uncommon when living under a regime to be fearful. Protest is cultural and there’s plenty of good people in ‘free’ countries who won’t take to the streets. From birth people are conditioned- be it to support the state, worship a god or want material wealth. Hopefully humans in their hearts have more, but it won’t come easy. Best wishes
I perfectly agree, dear Tate. Every nation that carries the heritage of the Soviet system tend to be averse to demonstrations by design as they are societies built on fear and constant threatening, so it is expected that Russians have kept this Soviet element to extreme levels under Putin regime. The thing is that, for many Ukrainians, it hasn't been easy to disclose the Russian citizenry from the rulers because there are massive popular support for war, which is extremely sad and only contributes to a long-term hatred between nations, but as you pointed out, I believe that in the end the good hearts will prevail in both sides. Best wishes for you too
Oh, no. As soon as I finished writing my comment, I checked on the latest in Ukraine. Another missile strike, this time in Uman, to the west of the Dnipro. According to google, it's 155.7km from Soroca, Moldova, about 96.75 miles (I've been trying to get used to the metric system, but we Americans are a bit slow to change. I can think only in miles). "The death toll of the Russian missile strike on a residential building in Uman has risen from 10 to 12. 2 of them are young children." https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1651899039963545600?cxt=HHwWgICwnZfb3OwtAAAA
"I tried to avoid comments concerning Russian moral grounds as people, but I will give my open opinion about why you went to come to your streets and protest: because you, Russians, are just afraid to be sent to Ukraine to fight under compulsory conscription and come to die here. You go to the streets only when the war comes to a reality on your shallow lives."
Yes, Viktor. That is very much the impression of those of us in the U.S. who love Ukraine and weep every time a Ukrainian is murdered. Just this morning I found this on twitter: https://twitter.com/mykolska/status/1651897555444289536 "Mom & Daughter killed by Russian missile in Dnipro #Ukraine tonight."
Once again, with these two murders, generations have also been murdered. The mother might have had more children, who would have had children. And the daughter would have had children, who would have had children, and on and on. Generations and generations gone, just like that. Oh, beautiful mother and beautiful daughter!
Thank you for the kind words and for sharing our sadness, dear Rose. This attack in the city of Dnipro affected me personally because I was born there, but almost every Ukrainian nowadays can point out an enemy action towards their corresponding hometown. Instead of weakening us, however, it reaffirms our attitude and our necessity to defeat this nasty regime of Russia.
It must be impossible to comprehend the lack of response by the Russian people to what is happening i Ukraine. I am so sorry for your nightmare.
Thank you Wendy, it's curious that they invaded us also claiming that Ukrainians and Russians are brothers, part of the same family. Couldn't be more disgusting.