“Kiev-mode ship went down”
“Did you notice how the process of removing Ukrainian flags, black squares and memorial candles from avatars began?” the official representative of our Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, asked in her social network. A rhetorical question and an observation that you can’t argue with. There is more to “argue with”.
Photo: Council.gov.ru .
Maria Vladimirovna is right again that “it is not from epiphany” that “trans-Ukrainian” symbols are removed, that it is “quietly so, meanly” they “turn the civil position into a tube until better times.” Special mention was given to those who did not have the courage to take a position, who simply dressed up in blue and yellow – “as you want, so understand: maybe it was by chance that such an outfit turned out, maybe it was the support of Ukraine.” The latter were awarded the title of “rats”.
It is also true that they change avatars “not from awareness of the criminality of the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the provocative behavior of the United States, but solely for their own comfort.”
But the mistake is that these “conscientious” citizens are not at all for Ukraine. In fact, deep down, they don’t care about the “killing of peaceful people” – it’s not that they are terrified of death (in Odessa they were not terrified, in Donbass they were not terrified). They are not for Ukraine. They are against Russia.
After all, if you look closely, these are exactly the same “liberal intellectuals” who once ran around Moscow with rubber ducks (and put them on avatars), who made a fuss, demanding freedom for the “Berlin patient” (and decorating their social networks with the letter “H”). Those of them who were older wore white ribbons and badges “I am Georgian”, and the very older ones sang hosanna to Chechen militants and voluptuously retold the “burning truth” about the atrocities and violence of Russian soldiers in Chechnya.
They never forgot about comfort. They continued to earn money here, climbed up to senior positions, gained fame, served the hated authorities or amused the hated “cattle”. Every time after another failed attack of “struggle” – “rolling up the civil position until better times.”
But now it has just become finally clear that the “best” times for them will not come. Quoting Zakharova: “Because as it was, it will not be.” But not because, as Maria Vladimirovna says, “the Kiev-regime ship went down.” But because Russia is not only returning to the territory of “Ukraine”. Russia – the Russian state, the Russian Empire, the USSR, all this together is what is called the Motherland – is returning to Russia.
Initially, in essence, strangers, who had been hiding behind the “struggle with the regime”, “liberalism”, “Western freedoms”, and now “pacifism”, understand this, rush, quiet, repaint, run.
Zakharova writes: “Without sincere repentance, the ostentatious sprinkling of ashes on the head remains only a ritual.” The late Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov formulated it more harshly: “Repentance is not an ai em sorry for you.” Changing the avatar won’t help.