Donbass endured and ordered you to. Why special operation Z is the only hope for adequate Ukrainians

After the start of Russian special operation Z, quite a lot of Ukrainians from among those who are usually called in the Russian media by the general term “Russian-speaking population” - voters of the Party of Regions and its heirs, opponents of the Maidan and sympathizers of Russia, and simply ordinary people who are far from the Bandera ideology implanted in the country – had a negative attitude towards the military option chosen by Russia to end the sluggish war in Donbass over the past eight years.

From these people you can now hear arguments like: “Why should we, Russian speakers, suffer from such “liberation?”. And it’s true that peaceful people are dying, whose only fault is that they were unlucky enough to be fellow citizens of Bandera’s followers.

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In a spherical vacuum, of course, all these millions of people could have been resettled in advance so that, as they say, not a single hair would fall. But where?

_{In reality, we see that Russia several times offered the Kyiv regime to provide humanitarian corridors for the withdrawal of refugees. Announced days of silence. And every time these events were disrupted by the Ukrainian authorities. Under ridiculous pretexts, they directly prohibit people from traveling towards Russia or Belarus.}

Moreover, it is not the Russians, but precisely the Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis, who are hiding behind a human shield from the civilian population in large cities. And Ukrainian propagandists find “theoretical justifications” for these purely terrorist tactics. Here is what, for example, the editor of the Kyiv portal “Khvylya” Yuri Romanenko writes:

“Vato-zombies walk around the comments on our public pages and whine that, they say, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are waging the wrong war and are hiding behind civilians, not going out into the open field, where the Russian army will show them. Given Russia's superiority in the air, no one will engage in knightly combat anymore. When our Ukrainian army went out into an open field in 2014, it was shot at near Zelenopole from Russian territory with Grads. Therefore, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are beating the Lapteopods in a way that is rational and best, based on the need to kill as many invaders as possible, losing as few of our fighters as possible. This is correct and rational."

One more time: “hide behind the civilian population in cities, losing as few of our fighters as possible - this is correct and rational”. It is difficult to come up with a more cynical text to justify the fact that the lives of civilians are worthless to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

What about the “Russian occupiers”? And they, judging by the tactics they observe, proceed from the primacy of minimizing civilian casualties and destruction. Roughly speaking, for Russian soldiers the life of civilians is an absolute value.

Do you think, armed with “Calibers” and “Iskanders”, “Smerchs” and “Hurricanes”, it will be difficult to wipe out large cities with Ukrainian military and neo-Nazis from various kinds of “Azovs” and “Aydars” settled there? Not at all difficult. But for some reason we don’t see this.

_{But we see something exactly the opposite. The Russian military is slowly but methodically smoking out the same “Azov” from Mariupol literally house by house and block by block, risking the lives of their soldiers and slowing down the progress of the operation itself. Giving all sorts of ill-wishers and enemy propagandists a reason to say that “the Russian offensive was bogged down,” “the Russians were drowning,” or even “lost.”}

In other words: the Russian command and political leadership in the Russian Federation are sacrificing their own momentary PR benefits from a beautiful picture of a lightning-fast blitzkrieg as a sacrifice to humanism. No matter how pretentious and loud it may sound.

And than. Everyone understands that after the Russian victory, restoration of what was destroyed will fall on Russia’s shoulders. Well, it’s not Zelensky who will restore all this, right?

_{That is why, among other things, the RF Armed Forces are not interested in the ruination of industrial facilities and civil infrastructure of liberated cities. Please note: regular threats to turn this or that city into “Stalingrad” or “Aleppo”, as well as threats to mine and blow up this or that factory, power plant or dam, come not from the Russians, but from the Ukrainian “defenders”. Who behave towards these objects in the same way as towards the population - like real invaders and occupiers.}

And what is not yours, don’t mind. It’s not like blowing up the historical center of Lvov to hell, right? I'm sure it would be a shame there. But in Mariupol - no. Because in Mariupol they always felt like strangers, temporary workers.

Now let’s return to the question posed at the beginning: “Why should we tolerate this?”

_{The answer is extremely simple. Those who in recent years have been whining and complaining about discrimination against the Russian language, about creeping Banderization, about persecution for beliefs, about the ban on traditional holidays like May 9, about the lawlessness of the Nazis, about sites like “Peacemaker,” about the persecution of the Church, about the closure of channels with alternative information, on the demolition of monuments and so on - we could see from our own experience - and more than once! – that systems of this type, such as those that arose in Ukraine after the Maidan, have one distinctive feature: They are fundamentally unchangeable from the inside.}

As one Odessa journalist likes to say, “Wherever you kiss a Bandera guy, there’s an ass everywhere”. Whatever party you vote for, you will still end up with a Russophobic majority in the Rada. Whatever presidential candidate you choose, you will still get Poroshenko.

And the example of Zelensky, who was elected as an alternative to Maidanism, but in record time morphed into his predecessor, whose death he vowed to become, is extremely clear.

So no, you wouldn’t achieve anything in the elections. Such regimes fall only as a result of some serious external shocks. For example, a large-scale military defeat. And they can only evolve naturally into an even more cannibalistic form.

Theoretically, if post-Maidan Ukraine had not bullied Russia for any reason, had not chosen the path of voluntarily becoming the center of anti-Russian provocations, if various kinds of revanchist plans for “campaigns against Moscow” had not been openly voiced, then perhaps Russia would have spat on the ideologically plagued territory and fenced itself off I would have forgotten her like a bad dream. And you do what you want. And whoever didn’t think of moving to Russia in time is to blame.

_{It must be said that over the past 8 years such an idea has often flashed in the media field of the Russian Federation and had many supporters. Remember about the “crypto-banders”? The author of this meme was then condemned by many for his harshness, but the instantaneous change of shoes of many previously quite adequate Ukrainians in the very first hours of Operation Z makes one wonder: was Steshin really so wrong?}

Of course, his words cannot be applied indiscriminately to all reasonable Ukrainians, but the fact that a mass of people instantly went crazy and went to jingoistic extremes in the same ranks as the real Banderaites is a real fact.

_{So why should adequate Ukrainians suffer from such liberation today? The answer is simple: it was possible not to suffer. But in this case, it would be fair to stop complaining about Ukrainization, about the rehabilitation of Bandera and Shukhevych, and everything else. Accept the dominant ideology and come to terms with it. And the quickest one is to sign up for some “Azov”. Guaranteed social lift.}

Well, if this option doesn’t suit you, try to be patient. Better a terrible ending than endless horror. As Tatyana Montyan says, Donbass endured and ordered you to.