A letter from Alchevsk, a city in East Ukraine occupied by Russian-backed militants, terrorists, regular Russian army, and the like, from forum.maidan.ua (waa.ai/4WVO) I try not to buy stuff made in Russia. Especially food. Not because I believe that my 100-200 hryvnyas a month will ruin the Russian empire. My reason is different. It’s that I have this bright mental picture: a group of fat women wearing badly knitted hats are standing at the production line, next to a conveyor. They are hastily packing frozen dumplings into rectangular plastic bags, and talk about me. They say that I and my friends are all Fascists. That we are all drug addicts, and traitors. That we are all degenerates who have no right to live. These women believe that if we were all dead, their lives would be better. And these women are standing in a factory room where the air is filled with dusty flour, and the factory is surrounded by a concrete fence, and then some Tver or Volgograd all the way to horizon. I also imagine how, in some place for smokers, where the air, lit by a dim bulb, seems yellow, a locksmith is carefully putting a Winston cigarette in his mouth, and discusses me with his friend, an electrician. Like those women, these two also want me to live worse and worse, and they wish me, my country, my friends, my president death, freezing, famine, and, again, death. And they laugh, exhaling the cigarette smoke up, towards the bulb. And they hear the sound of the conveyor moving bottles of the White Bear or Klinskoe beer, and they are somewhere in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, and their factory is just like those fat women’s. And the concrete fence is just like around those women’s factory. The same. And it’s like this all over their country: a multitude of concrete cells where gray people are manufacturing food and hatred. I cannot stop feeling this. I take a pack of dumplings or a bottle of beer from a supermarket shelf, see the “Made in Russia” sign, and put this merchandise back on the shelf. And then, instinctively, I rub my jeans to wipe my hands clean. If you believe that Russia should be condemned for invading Ukraine, share this post and boycott Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 01:14:47 +0000
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