I mean...I've seen and heard a lot of shit from Russians, so I'm a bit desensitized, but this disgusts even me.
And if you think that there are very few individual like that in Russia, unfortunately, you're wrong.
When they talk to Western audiences, they often say they feel sorry for Ukrainians, but there is nothing they can do to help the situation. And some really do feel sorry, I don't argue with that. But this video inspired me to list you the main theses from Russians that Ukrainians face on a daily basis:
- We, Ukrainians, have nothing of our own. Our land doesn't belong to us, our culture and language are fake, we are just a bunch of pathetic beggars.
- Nobody wants anything from us, nobody needs our shitty land (and this is exactly the reason why they are trying to take it away from us for centuries, yeah, don't look for logic in this)
- We clean toilets and pick strawberries in Poland (for some reason they think this is really offensive, idk why this one is so popular. Maybe they think that honest work is shameful somehow? You have no idea how often they say that, it's ridiculous)
- No one will ever help us, because we are useless to the world.
- The war is not actually between Russia and Ukraine. It is between Russia and USA. Because, you guessed it, we are basically nothing, fake country and fake nation.
- We are the nation of slaves belonging to Russian and Polish masters, thus our land must be divided accordingly. But currently we are slaves of US masters, and Russia is simply trying to bring us back.
But why did this video motivate me to write this post? This person subconsciously extrapolated the Kremlin's overall narrative to an individual rape victim. The main line in the Russian propaganda is that Ukrainians and Ukraine are so unappealing that nobody really needs or wants us. We hear it from Russians all the time, in one form or another. As you can see, it manifests itself on both large and small scales. So Putin is not really trying to seize and colonize Ukraine, because nobody needs this shitty country. And Russian soldiers do not rape Ukrainian women, because who wants them?
This is really how many of them think. It's horrifying.
Please don't come here to tell me "not all Russian are like that!" I never said anything about all Russians. There are exceptions to every rule.