and with that, i'll be taking a break from long form posts. i have plenty of drafts and ideas, but i am tired of trying to explain things to all the bad actors. the tankies, the faux moralist western academics, the nazis, the MAGA fanboys and fangirls, etc.

dušičky by josef uprka

1/ It's funny that what I wrote has been paraphrased or shared by people who in the past have accused me of "being russian" because i don't agree with excuses for the far right. anyway, i wrote about how "no war but class war" is basically the lazy leftist equivalent of thoughts and prayers -

10/ A clear example comes from Charlie Kirk:

23/ I often see western leftists point to the 1936 Soviet film, "the Circus" as "proof" of alleged Soviet anti-racism. The plot revolves around an American circus performer fleeing the U.S. with a mixed-race child, who is then embraced by Soviet citizens of various nationalities.

9/ The 1973 Soviet film Secret and Explicit: The Aims and Acts of Zionists (Тайное и явное: Цели и деяния сионистов) was produced by the Central Studio for Documentary Film as part of the USSR’s broader campaign against Zionism, portraying it as a political movement threatening socialism and peace.

1/ I've noticed that the same people who refuse to acknowledge soviet imperialism also love to suggest that the ussr was explicitly "anti racist." It loved to brand itself as the world’s great anti-racist superpower and so do desperate tankies, soviet romanticizers, and some naive western leftists.

1/ i'm a bit early, but on the late night of august 20th/early morning of august 21st 1968, the soviet union with warsaw pact troops invaded czechoslovakia. it was a reminder that the USSR, despite its rhetoric of solidarity, operated on the same imperial logic as the empires it claimed to oppose.

Denis Nikitin is and always will be a piece of shit Russian nazi. Last year I wrote a lot about him and the RDK and why they will become a problem and very few people were willing to recognize or talk about it.

while it doesn’t actually “do” anything or keep anyone alive, I do enjoy seeing this on a daily walk: the street that the Russian embassy is on named “the street of Ukrainian Heroes” (yes, their mail must be addressed there) and a particularly painted handrail right outside

5/ Here are the results of a poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research regarding approval and disapproval of Russia's actions in Ukraine.

15/ The Rusich Group is arguably the most ideologically extreme, embracing a combination of neo-Nazism, nihilistic brutality, and Slavic paganism. It explicitly glorifies violence for its own sake and sees cruelty as a legitimate tactic in psychological warfare.

9/ Española operates as a private military group and adheres to a violent form of neo-Nazism fused with Russian nationalism, resulting in a street-level fascist gang. The group emerged from football hooligan culture and has retained its aggressive, hypermasculine, and tribal identity.

5/ Russian Imperial Movement is grounded in ultranationalism, white supremacy, and Orthodox fundamentalism. It envisions the restoration of the Russian Empire, seeing democracy and liberalism as “corrosive, foreign influences” that have undermined Russia's “moral fabric.”

Milada Horáková is often an inconvenient figure for the Soviet-romanticizing western left. A devout socialist who fought Nazism in the underground resistance who was then murdered by communists for not towing the party line hard enough. Testimony from her sham trial is chilling