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Michael Golden's avatar

Remembering Pete Reed, an American hero among many in this Russo-Ukrainian War. His widow Alex Potter did an interview with TGM: β€œPete was so gregarious, you know. He was loud and proud and wild, and I think part of that was his personality He definitely knew how to lead and how to take charge of people, which was both amazing for our medical work β€” and very attractive to me. He had like a heart of gold underneath. And it wasn't just in the field.” πŸ’ͺπŸ’™ Full story: https://tinyurl.com/ydc9wpef

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Matthew Marshall's avatar

Fallacy that this account is anything more than Russian propaganda. Russia is erasing Ukrainian identity and language in any areas it has successfully invaded. Ukrainian people aren't prevented from talking Russian, though many russophones have actually switched to learning and speaking Ukrainian in disgust at Russia.

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πŸ˜†Don't you get tired of this "Russian propaganda" narrative that no one using brains is buying an longer? It is counter-productive and is just exposing you as a brainless victim of NATO propaganda who never bothers to fact-check anything. Any time any of us Western independent reporters and peace activists reveal truth with plenty of evidence, the likes of you come out with "Russian propaganda" narrative lacking any evidence whatsoever to back up your claim. I challenge you to prove (not just allege) that anything here is not true!!! But I am sure you are not gonna raise to the occasion because you've got no proof. All you got is barking NATO propaganda.

NATO propaganda such as "Russia is erasing Ukrainian identity and language in any areas it has successfully invaded" - but these regions have for centuries used Russian language and most of population there is ethnic Russians whom Kyiv regime has tried to Ukrainize forcefully and by making laws to ban Russian language in more than 30 spheres of public life, including public administration, electoral process, referendums, courts, schools/education, science, theatres and other culture, media, economic and social life, health and care institutions, activities of political parties, etc. So it was Ukraine that wanted to erase Russian identity and language in those areas, which is why the local people protested and voted to secede from Ukraine!!! Why do you think Russia succeeded to seize a quarter of Ukraine in a matter of days in February 2022? Because the local did not resist them but welcomed them! Just think about it! And think about why and why they overwhelmingly voted for Putin in last Russian election!

There is not a single evidence of the people in any areas Russia has seized complaining about "Russia erasing their Ukrainian identity and language", which should be enough of evidence to people who use brains that this narrative is nothing but shameless Kyiv & NATO propaganda, which you brainlessly spread. Quite the contrary, there is plenty of evidence (available thoughout this peace initiative's articles), especially from people in Crimea and Donbas, how they praise Putin and Russia because their living standards have significantly improved even during the war, not to mention how they asserted that by their voting for Putin and through Western polls on Putin's approval rates there!

What is Ukrainian identity anyway? Not even Western Ukrainians are proud of it as they flee to the West since decades as Ukraine sucks! Ukraine has been the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe, and for a reason. No one is proud of being Ukrainian other than neo-Nazis there, millions of them. Ukraine has never done anything good for the world, unlike Russia that gave us many precious inventions such as television, radio receivers, radars, airplanes, helicopters, parachutes, lasers, modern type of incandescent lightbulb, solar power, satellite, holograph/hologram, heating radiators, roller coasters, telegraph, Telegram Messenger, electric trams, the periodic table of the elements, AC transformers, grain harvesters, foam fire extinguishers, Nuclear power plants, field surgery, classical conditioning theory, deciphering the Maya script, linear programming, vodka, etc. Not to mention Russian achievements in Space and the Arctic with all their cosmonauts and scientists winning the the Space Race and the Arctic Race! Not to mention that, unlike Ukraine, Russia has given the world so many outstanding writers (incl. 6 Nobel laureates) such as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Bulgakov, Turgenev, Gogol, Goncharov, Bunin, Maxim Gorky, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Nabokov, Yesenin, Sholokhov, Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn... Not to mention that, unlike Ukraine, Russia has given the world so many outstanding composers: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Rimskij-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Glinka, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Scriabin, Dmitri Tiomkin... Not to mention that, unlike Ukraine, Russia has given the world many great choreographers and dancers – Ensemble "Beryozka", Bolshoi Ballet... Not to mention that, unlike Ukraine, Russia has given the world so many outstanding painters like Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Roerich, Ilya Repin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Arkhip Kuindzhi... as well as art masterpieces – Icons, FabergΓ© eggs, Malachite vases... Not to mention that, unlike Ukraine, Russians has given the world so many great platforms like Google, Telegram...

In contrast, Ukraine has not given the world anything or anyone as significant in terms of culture, arts, and innovation, which is why most of the world appreciates Russia much more than (economically and culturally) poor and corrupt Ukraine. The only Ukrainians who added some value to the world in recent decades are those who fled Ukraine – in other words, no thanks to Ukraine, and ethnic Russians born in Ukraine. So, this precious "Ukrainian identity" has no value at all, which is why all former Ukrainians who now live in Russia gladly embraced their Russian identity and are proud to be Russians. Russia did not have to do anything to "erase their Ukrainian identity and language" there because oppressive, corrupt Kyiv regime run by Jews did it already.

The main question here is why are you turning the blind eye on all the other cruel, wicked, and horrible things Ukrainians have been doing as exposed in this article. Instead, as a spin doctor, you are trying to spin it that it is Russians, not Ukrainians who are evil because they are erasing Ukrainian identity and language among the ethnic Russians there πŸ˜†! But it is not working! You can spin it all you want but evidence-based facts are louder than your barking.

Instead of spreading Kyiv and NATO propaganda, you should stop and think about all those Ukrainian evil acts exposed here to see what Russians are up against. Not to mention millions of neo-Nazis as exposed in another article (series): https://peaceinitiative.substack.com/p/why-should-ukraine-denazify

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