Today is a 37st anniversary of the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant disaster. It's hard to talk about one unprocessed national tragedy while living through another.

The Chornobyl disaster was totally preventable and it took away countless lives of people living in the region, especially in Ukraine and Belarus - both the liquidators and the civillians. Despite the very air and dust being literal poison, the soviets had not only hid this information from the people, but forced everybody to partake in the May the 1st parade - because god forbid we lose our face before the international community as a working class paradise! If not for the nuclear scientists in Sweden who raised the alarm about the dangerous levels of nuclear particles coming from northern Ukraine, who knows what would have happened. It definitely would have been swepped under the rug and forgotten by the international community, together with its victims - just like Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan is barely known abroad.

With russia constantly threatening to turn Zaporhizhzha nuclear plant into second Chornobyl, the wound caused by this tragedy is cut open again.

We all love the HBO Chornobyl series, and I genuinely am grateful to Craig Mazin for the amount of empathy and respect he brought to the series; but for today I indulge you to watch something made by ukrainians, to try to understand what this tragedy means to us and how it influences our lives even today.

For the documentaries, my favourite series by this day remains the "Dragons live here" by Your Underground Humanitarian School Youtube channel, which, unfortunately, can only offer automated english subtitles - they should, however, be sufficient.

As for the feature films, I recommend "Gateway" (you can stream it online with english subtitles here). And here is the official english trailer:

I'm fine, actually (russian fascist regime is bombing every plant in the city I grew up in, like an angry child stomping on someone's carefully built sandcastle, and millions of people watch and say: "well, maybe he has a right of destruction after all"

MISS CONGENIALITY | 2000 

bonus:

you believe in armed resistance? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, being an idiot in the notes of a random ukrainian on tumblr

Street Lights  -  William Davis , 2020.

American , b. 1952  -

Oil on panel  , 10 x 8 in.

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Fun thing to do for Americans today:

Call your congress people and demand that they vote for the Ukraine aid bill.

It's been almost 500 days since congress last approved aid to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 forces are severely lacking in ammunition there, which means they cannot protect their cities and energy infrastructure and have to leave soldiers at the frontline without cover because they need to ration their firepower. Civilians are dying, soldiers defending freedom and democracy are dying. Ukraine will lose and cease to exist if they run out of weapons.

Russia is 100% responsible for the war, but inaction makes the USA complicit and will lead to a bigger war in Europe that is very likely going to include NATO directly, meaning your fellow countrypeople will actually have to come here and fight. Don't want that? Then fucking support Ukraine NOW! It's the morally right and logical thing to do and serves your own interests!!

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I thought after 10+ years of war and especially 2+ years of all out genocidal massacre accompanied by fascist frenzie inside russia itself, and then especially after Navalny's death, his team, now led by his wife, would have the common human decency to at least stop whining about how mean Ukrainians are being to them on the internet, and how it's only personally Putin alone who is waging the war and massacring people, and how bad Ukrainians are for hurting their precious great russian feelings... but no. I guess that only dying from a missile strike on their home, having lost friends and relatives at the frontline/under occupation/to similar missile strikes, can a Ukrainian understand all the depth of the pain of a russian's hurt fee-fees for not being worshipped as a saint because that russian personally at some point thought to themself or EVEN whispered under their breath, "no to war". Or "** ** ***", as they say.

Burn in hell. The few russians who do actually do something, unlike you, deserve a better representation. And those other few who are afraid to do something but also oppose the war, at least have the humanity to not whine about Ukrainians not liking to be genocided.

The rest of you belong in the same hell pit as Putin.

Шоб русня повиздихала

Assign prev a daemon.

This is the village Robotyne, Ukraine. The russians destroyed everything. Not a single house is intact. russians only bring death and destruction.

Support Ukraine and contact your representatives 👇🏻👇🏻

It is interesting to watch the US reaction to the situation with Israel and Iran. That is, when russia launches 100+ missiles and an endless number of IRANIAN drones into Ukraine every night, no one cares. None of the “allies” even try to shoot down russian missiles and drones flying through their airspace, because why? Because these missiles will still return to Ukraine later to kill more Ukrainians so this doesn't concern us, russia can use our airspace for its crimes you're welcome!

But even when Ukraine defends itself without their fucking help, they dare to tell it what to do, thinking only about their own benefit and not about how many people will die because of this. How hypocritical all this pseudo-support looks.

You left Ukraine to die. That's what you did.

Blackthorn shepherd moving her herd to a sunny place, for character design challenge ♡ Blackthorn berries taste so sour/bitter that it makes your mouth numb...so I made this character a little bit...sour looking :D acrylic, poca marker, and ink on yellow paper ♡