The other day this thought popped into my head:

Mother Russia is weeping for her children, and has been for many years.

This impression that the soul of Russia is maternal began in the third grade when I read a book of Russian folk tales. Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago, followed by Dostoevsky and a summer of reading every book I could find on Russian history solidified this perception.

Growing up during the Cold War I had a brief hope for the country’s spirit when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. Glasnost at last.

But since then I have watched in horror.

Russia is corrupted by greedy, inhumane stuffed shirt “leaders” who seek only to feather their own nests. They continue to ruin the lives of many peoples whilst hiding behind national “pride” and “ideals”.

They are shameful war criminals. 

 

To quote Kristina Zakharchenko:

“The fact that today’s Ukraine has become a victim of Russian aggression prompts us to rethink the events of 30 years ago. Looking back at the war with Afghanistan, the USSR committed war crimes against the civilians of Afghanistan, and against the soldiers of the Soviet Army themselves. They were mostly 18–20 years old boys who were sent to war without consent and appropriate military training. The responsibility for the deaths, injuries, illness, and fate of hundreds of thousands of people sits on the leadership of the USSR.

Apparently, these Soviet-era leaders have poisoned the modern leaders of the Russian Federation with an incurable disease: a thirst for power over the world and the desire to establish their own world order.

Today in Ukraine, hundreds of young soldiers from the Russian Federation, boys, who are 17–22 years old, give their lives again for “the good of the country” under the pretext of military exercises, the denazification of Ukraine, and the liberation of Russian-speaking Ukrainians from oppression.”

Russian soldiers have been sacrificed in the soil of Chernobyl and are now dying from radiation poisoning.

The Russian soldiers who commit war crimes betray their country as well as all humanity.

And the Russian government does not care.

The Russian people risk their livelihood and lives to demonstrate against the government:

 

The pretext of “saving” the people of Ukraine is evil incarnate and the true colors of the Russian government are exposed in the aftermath of Bucha and Irpin:

 

 

 

 

What mother would raise her son to kill parents in front of their children?

Russian soldier, where is your heart? Your soul?

Listen….Mother Russia weeps.