Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Ludmila Denisova this morning accused Russian forces of forcibly transporting Ukrainian citizens to Russia. In a post on Telegram, she said:
In recent days, several thousand Mariupol residents have been deported to Russia. These are people from the Left Bank district of the city and the bomb shelter in the building of the sports club, where more than a thousand people (mostly women and children) hid from the constant bombing …
It is known that the captured Mariupol residents were taken to filtration camps, where the occupiers checked people’s phones and documents. After the inspection, some Mariupol residents were transported to Taganrog and from there sent by rail to various economically depressed cities in Russia.
Our citizens have been issued papers that require them to be in a certain city. They have no right to leave it for at least two years with the obligation to work at the specified place of work. The fate of others remains unknown.
She accused Russia of a gross violation of international laws, including the Geneva convention, and called on the international community to increase sanctions against Russia.
I was telling someone the other night that it doesn’t take any specialised expertise to know what the Putin regime’s hegemonic ambitions are. They’ve been telegraphed in advanced for years.
ETA: I wonder if they had a youth chorus singing a Russian version of this fascist favourite:
In Putin’s Russia, culture cancels you!
“The quality of food and housing in the Russian military is reportedly worse than in its prisons, with unreasonably small meals and some carrying harmful Escherichia coli bacteria.”
"…slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.”
– H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
Hopefully Steve1989MREInfo steers clear of those, although he’s munched on pretty dodgy stuff before.
Most crucially, how similar are the 600-800 words/concepts used most regularly?
Already posted by @Jesse13927
(I always get a warning if I post a link that has already been posted.)
Do try telling that to all the people who were killed by Nazis simply because they were not the physical ideal of “Aryan perfection.”
ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY it is. Quit telling us it’s not exactly as bad as actually is, that is not fucking helping anyone… except maybe the Nazis, who want their shitty viewpoint ‘normalized.’
Nope; it’s really not.
A quick experiment. Here’s a random paragraph from somewhere in Война и мир:
Первое лицо, которое он увидал у Ростовых, была Наташа. Еще прежде, чем он увидал ее, он, снимая плащ в передней, услыхал ее. Она пела солфеджи в зале. Он знал, что она не пела со времени своей болезни, и потому звук ее голоса удивил и обрадовал его. Он тихо отворил дверь и увидал Наташу в ее лиловом платье, в котором она была у обедни, прохаживающуюся по комнате и поющую. Она шла задом к нему, когда он отворил дверь, но когда она круто повернулась и увидала его толстое, удивленное лицо, она покраснела и быстро подошла к нему.
Google translate comes up with:
The first face he saw of the Rostovs was Natasha. Even before he saw her, he, taking off his cloak in the anteroom, heard her. She sang solfeji in the hall. He knew that she had not sung since her illness, and therefore the sound of her voice surprised and delighted him. He quietly opened the door and saw Natasha in her lilac dress, in which she was at mass, walking around the room and singing. She was walking backwards towards him when he opened the door, but when she turned sharply and saw his fat, astonished face, she blushed and quickly went up to him.
Setting it to Ukrainian comes up with:
The first person he saw from the Rostovs was Natasha. Even before he saw her, he took off his cloak in front and heard her. She sang solfeggio in the hall. He knew that she had not sung since her illness, so the sound of her voice surprised and delighted him. He quietly opened the door and saw Natasha in her purple dress, in which she was at lunch, walking around the room and singing. She was walking behind him when he opened the door, but when she turned abruptly and saw his thick, surprised face, she blushed and walked quickly to him.
That doesn’t say anything about how it would be phrased in Ukrainian, but it does suggest to me that a lot of Russian is probably intelligible in Ukrainian.
Fascists, theoretically not (although there’s no real-world fascist movement that hasn’t earnestly Othered at least one ethnic group as a scapegoat or 5th column). Nazis and neo-Nazis always do care – white supremacy and anti-Semitism are explicitly baked into that variation of fascist ideology.
They do care to the extent that they’re their support base. So they have to care about their own preferred ethnic groups [ETA on that basis], even if they’re also simultaneously screwing a lot of them over on other bases.
“They’re not really racist, they just use racism as a means to an end!” is a piss poor talking point; in my mind, it’s akin to ‘goat fucking.’
Even if someone “only” fucks goats out of a sense of ‘irony,’ at the end of the day, they have still fucked some goats.
Obligatory as fuck:
He is constantly speaking of betrayal and deceit. From the West. From individual, former Soviet republics. In 2008, during the war against Georgia, he met with Alexei Venediktov, the editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, which was one of the last critical media outlets in the country until it was shut down last week. Putin asked if Venediktov knew what he, Putin, had done in his previous job. Mr. President, Venediktov replied, we all know where you come from. Do you know, Putin said, what we did with traitors in my previous job? Yes, we know, said Venediktov. And do you know why I am speaking with you? Because you are an enemy and not a traitor! In Putin’s view, Ukraine committed the greatest crime imaginable: It betrayed Russia.
