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To Tatyana et al:
Any suggestions for serious scholarship/non-fiction books about the 1917 revolution, the Civil War and Soviet history in general? By Russian scholars?
I am asking since I have come to the conclusion that what I regarded as “safe” in the West in this area of research is very often corrupted by ideology and massive geopolitical interests. Which means that apparently e.g. British Secret Intelligence has been overwhelmingly influential in what Russian history looks like in our universities and beyond.
Due to Cyrillic script this problem is difficult to come by. Even if I went to the library to get a recommended Russian study what I am gonna do? I have not the time to learn it just for “fun”.
It appears as if the foundations of Russia Studies in the West are seriously jeopardized by lack of basic academic standards.
All I know by now: I am reading something and I ask myself, how much of this is correct?
This is senseless even for the West, big think tank “Chatham House” invite real, actual ukrainian nazi Yevhen Karas:
Chatham House hosts notorious Ukrainian neo-Nazi mob leader
A prominent far-right militant has been invited to discuss the “future of Europe” in Londonhttps://swentr.site/news/627809-chatham-house-ukrainian-nazi/
He is the founder of neo-nazi organisation S-14 that made itself a name after their violent attacks against the roma minority group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S14_(Ukrainian_group)Here he is throwing a nazi salute:
https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2019/08/df5636c7ba893d523ae5b69baecee9cf.jpgEven pro-western Bellingcat organisation called out S-14 for being nazis
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/08/09/yes-its-still-ok-to-call-ukraines-c14-neo-nazi/…but sure all talk about ukraine having a real nazi problem is of course only “russian propaganda”
thanks!
Chatham House with another proto-fascist freakshow:
War in Ukraine: The battleground for the future of Europe
Ukraine’s internal dynamics and evolving needs bear important lessons for Europe as the continent adapts to a shifting global landscape.
keynote 40 min.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/research-event/war-ukraine-battleground-future-europeA bunch of crazy people attending. Among them former C-14 Neonazi leader Yevhen Karas, for instance most likely the killer of Ukranian journalist Oles Busina in 2015, Karas now is commander in the AFU of the 413th Separate Battalion (unmanned systems.)
p.s. to my astonishment this was not only reported by RT (see above by Jack) but by German left daily JUNGE WELT too.
Karas was very proud after the event and posted pictures of him sitting on stage next to British establishmen royalty.
Brits always adored their Nazis.AG
Thanks for the link, yeah It is insane, Chatham house is also in part state-funded which make this an even bigger scandal. But it is like facts like this do no matter to the Western establishment. It is like there is no morals left.
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In other “news”Ukrainian/Canadian professor Ivan Katchanovski recently released a book on the conflict in Ukraine, it is free to download as a pdf or epub file here:
The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins
From the Maidan to the Ukraine WarUkraine too, but even without that, I think about this:
We are all ordinary people.
We don’t have any levers of power, we don’t have the right to use weapons, we are simply peaceful citizens who don’t influence conflicts in any way other than by expressing our opinions.We are a majority in the world.
There has to be a majority, because those with power are a minority in any society.
So, we, tha majority, have some levers to expresss our opinion and to excercise it.
Let’s compare the list?UN
Council of Europe
European Court of Human Rights
OSCE
Doctors Without Borders
World Organization Against Torture
Amnesty International
Human Rights WatchAll these independent organizations have a significant voice to raise before governments. What is their reaction?
I’ve been away for a while, friends, and I’ll probably be away for a while until the Christmas holidays are over.
Forgive me this small personal digression.
My mom called. My dad’s health has significantly worsened.
Of course, I jumped in the car and hurried to Moscow, where my older sister is caring for our parents.My dad. The last stroke left him unable to move his leg. He’s having a hard time not being able to move freely around the apartment, let alone go for walks. Age-related changes have greatly affected his memory.
– Dad, Mom called and said you’re not feeling well. I hurried to see you.
– Who are you?
– I’m your youngest daughter. I hurried to see you to tell you how much I love you.
– Oh! If only you knew how much I loved you!
– I know, papa, I know.And later, while driving on the way back, the obnoxious trucks again tried to overtake each other at a snail’s pace, taking over my lane. And I remembered a similar trip I wrote about here. And that brought linguistics to my mind. And the past tense inflection of the word “love” used by my father suddenly became clear in my mind.
When he said he loved, he meant it all — he’s no longer the person I knew; he’s lost most of his personality, and the process continues.
But even amongst this process, the very core of his personality remembers that he loved his daughter very much.I probably can’t convey the depth of feeling, to be blessed by this love.
I feel like we, humble human beings, emerge from the dust of the galaxy on the outskirts, and one day we realize who we are. And one day we realize that we are disintegrating. But even at that sad moment, we remember that we love our children.
He’s a Father with a capital F.
I’m happy to have been born from such a father. I hope to be such a mother for my son.
If I ever decide to become religious, I’ll choose the cult of ancestors. At least I have undeniable proof that love for descendants lives on in a person even when their personality disintegrates.
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Believers, please pray for Alexander.Am not the praying kind, so I can only hope you find time to interact with him as much as possible.
Are there any places which were dear to him in his youth? And music? Maybe visiting/listening to it might be helpful too.
And food from the past…🤔
All the best (I know, to lose people on the cognitive level is hard.)praise from unusual corners:
Professor Niall Ferguson from Hoover Institute gives the Slava Ukraini crowd a cold shower in the form of some cold hard facts about the Russian economy and the fact that sanctions have “failed utterly”. The corrupt 🇬🇧 political class does NOT want you to hear this 👇 (Sep 2025) – apart from Ferguson repeating the “shadow fleet” bullshit as if that were a serious term in any of this.
https://x.com/ThinkCoalition/status/1991834546929905956?t=ctOi6NvoSE3zqS6usodZ7Q&s=19Glenn Diesen offered a ‘Holy Roan Empire’ definition of the Euro ‘Peace Plan’ on George Galloway’s MOATS yesterday evening:
The Europeans want to buy (with money they do not have) American weapons (which do not yet exist) to give to a country Ukraine (which does not have enough soldiers to use them.)
AG, in one of your posts, I saw a question about whether my presence is more significant for me or for the visitors of this site. I didn’t find a quick answer then, but today I have.
Among the many things the modern world has to offer for communication — I mean the number of people and the number of forums on the internet — this site is unique.
It’s an honor for me to be here. But this is, of course, a personal assessment.This is important to me because all these years I’ve been here, I’ve been searching for an answer: are we different? I and those people are on the other side of the planet.
I have a deep-seated conviction that all people are the same, and the rules of “who has a say here” cannot depend on race, citizenship, or the cultural environment in which the poster was raised. The world is multifaceted and amazing; it’s like a laboratory where each test tube contains the result of a unique experiment, so it’s reasonable to appreciate the opportunity to learn the results of each such “test.”
So, I look at the “reactions” in different “test tubes” and want to find the answer to whether we are different from the start, or whether our difference depends on the addition of certain “reagents” to our respective “test tubes”.
This might be obvious to more experienced people, but I’m still 3/4 of the way from my 40s to my 50s. Still young, I prefer to think 🙂 So, I haven’t figured it out yet.
I brought an article about humanity, and with bated breath I’m posting the translation here, waiting for reactions. Do we see things the same way, or not?
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Reservation: I don’t subscribe to the author’s assertions about the ownership of any territories. Personally, I take a neutral position; people living on the land must decide their own fate themselves.
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Ukraine has returned the body of a soldier whose heart was removed.Seeing what was once Ukraine evokes a sense of disgust and fear.
In the Kherson region, which we don’t yet control, Ukrainian military commissariats, in an attempt to catch and mobilize a man riding a bicycle, hit him with a car. The man wasn’t alone — he had a child on his lap. The mancatchers’ car ran over them both. With a fatal outcome. They overdid it.And, according to NABU wiretaps, Mindych (Zelenskyy’s moneybag) convinced then-Defense Minister Umerov to purchase defective bulletproof vests for a huge money.
And they suggested microchipping Ukrainian soldiers like dogs, to keep them from running away.
Also, Alexey Bogunov, a resident of Sudzha (Kursk region), reports: “When the Ukrainians entered, two of our men were killed. It was in the square, near the *House of Arts. They killed them for their words. The guys told them that we were the masters here, this was our land. The Ukrainians immediately shot both of them. They entered every house, emerged with backpacks, carrying the loot. They took it away in cars.”
Every piece of news makes me sick.
So the news that during the exchange, the Ukrainian side handed over a body with a heart removed isn’t surprising. It simply transforms the entire nightmare into a coherent work. As if someone were painting a portrait of the ideal Ukrainian, born of modern Ukraine, using the news.
Smear after smear: black manure, red blood. Shit and blood.
These people were created over 30 years. Before our very eyes. And our eyes couldn’t believe it.
We didn’t want to believe it. We didn’t want to understand the simple truth of the old Jewish woman from the concentration camp: if someone says they intend to kill you, just believe them.They could have simply withheld our soldier’s body to cover up what they did. Peerhaps they mixed it up, maybe. But I think they did it on purpose.
In order to evoke in us this now-permanent feeling of disgust and fear. A natural fear, when you’re dealing not with a human being, but with something else, something reborn.They like this feeling of ours. They revel in it.
Because for them, it’s proof of their own significance. Of their difference from us.
For them, it’s proof that they have overcome something fundamental. That we stand on opposite sides of the abyss.
And they’re very proud of this achievement.
For them, it was a way to be something other than us.Ukraine created its own ideal Ukrainian. A Ukrainian who is not Russian.
There’s nothing of us in him. No language, no faith, no children’s fairy tales, no literature.
This doesn’t make him European. In the place of Pushkin and Gogol, who were removed just like the heart, didn’t show up a Shakespeare.
This Ukrainian has departed so far from us, that he could more accurately be called dead. The one whose only joy is to make all living things dead.A very vivid portrait. It’s a shame we didn’t recognize the artist sooner.
We could have.Media link:
https://www.vesti.ru/article/4788968
[English translation – Kyiv returned the body of a Russian soldier with his heart removed.]I’d like to add that when assessing any events, I can’t escape the subjective lens.
Info passes into me through at least several filters:First, I work in the creative field.
I write emotionally appealing texts myself.
I view this sort of a trick as a creative person myself. That is, I evaluate (pls forgive me!) who the target audience is, and what the writer is appealing to.Second, I’m a linguist.
I analyze embedded meanings and what’s chosen to express them.
That is, predicates, definitions, idioms, and the like, are automatically sorted in my head.Third, I’m Russian.
I live in a Russian cultural, historical, and real-life environment. I compare what I read with my own experience.And that article wouldn’t have touched me if I hadn’t previously seen a cake shaped like a baby wrapped in a Russian flag. Long before the war began.
An event photographed and well-regarded by the Ukrainian media, celebrated as something truly Ukrainian – the ritual devourment of a Russian infant.
They ate this cake shaped like a Russian baby, congratulated each other on such a breakthrough in expressing Ukrainian national identity, and rejoiced that the proceeds from that performance would go toward killing Crimean and Donetsk residents.It was that moment when I looked at this on Facebook and didn’t understand what I was seeing!!!
Facebook (hello, Zuckerberg the lizard) changed the hate speech rules to allow “new Ukrainians” to freely express their hatred.
I then were making my trade on Amazon, and guess what? All them Ukrainains were everywhere, saying how bad the separatists in the East affected their small business/ pease support etc.I’m all for creativity and small business, but I’ve seen it used simply to get donations, just like (sorry) Black Lives Matters was immediately used for quick cash by a few accounts.
I think these “creatives” are still alive; they’re unlikely to be called up to the warfront. They stay in their places, and type, and get cash for typing, and no one cares what’s the outcome of their ‘journalism’.
The awfulness is almost uncomprehendable.
Thank you Tatyana for expressing yourself.
I can only wonder, why some of the leaders of Europe, wish us to go to World War Three with Russia.
Almost none of the ordinary people, want that outcome.
