I wonder what had british culture would have looked like if Shakespeare was imprisoned and forbidden to write.
If Chaucer was tortured to death before he made it to his 40
If Orwell rotted away in a concentration camp
If the entire generation of beatniks was executed
If Britain existed behind the iron wall, and noone outside had a slightest clue about what's happening with the people inside
It's hard to imagine what the would would have looked like then. But I know for sure that people would be blabbing about how brits are just naturally culturally inferior and never contributed anything for the humanity
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https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1583470731874095104
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As russia is conducting yet another mass missile attack on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure all over the country, not even bothering to hide their war crimes because they know nobody but Ukrainians cares enough to punish it, let me just remind you that it is a terrorist state, and its culture of imperialism, exceptionalism and colonialism must be destroyed.
Russia must burn.
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yeeeah yeeeahhahah let's go
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«Ukraine has returned 108 women from russian captivity» - Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Yermak.
37 of them are from "Azovstal", there are also officers, privates and sergeants. Some of them were captured before a large-scale invasion.
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We wake up because of explosions. I think it's a bit weird to kiss your back after. It's romantic only in “Fight Club” with fire on the skyscrapers in the background. It’s not a movie, right?
The first, the second.
Then the third.
I jump into my jeans. Chats of friends and neighbours are exploding every nervous second - is everyone okay? Where did Russians hit today? I sent a message to the driver - “don't get here, there are explosions, I'm going there.”
How gross to walk down your street wearing a bulletproof vest. The area is surrounded by restriction stripes. I turn into the yard - it's good to know short cuts, because this is my district. It’s bad to recognize the body by birthmarks and tattoos that you remember so well.
"Air!" - I fall down. What a weird noise - now I know how these drones sound.
There is no air in the chest. Only smoke.
Everyone smokes, policemen and firefighters, doctors and locals, one endless smoke in the lungs.
Dima hugs Marina, they live on the top floor. Underground parking is a shitty shelter, but there is no other nearby. Dima shows a video on his mobile phone - the first hit and the light of the explosion floods their bedroom. I think about mine.
As long as we hug like that in shelters, we cannot be defeated.
I wish to share this thought with you, when (if?) we wake up next time.
11 Iranian Shahed drones, 5 hits in the residential area and critical infrastructure object, 3 peoples killed for now.
Morning in Kyiv.
– Julia Kochetova
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when a doctor of sociology tells me on twitter that I „can’t know” that russia won’t honor it’s next peace treaty
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