As NHL fans might know, tonight the @BlueJacketsNHL were supposed to host the "Russian Heritage Night", presumably by torturing a kidnapped Ukrainian child into praising Putin.
However, I am hearing that after the social media outcry, they have cancelled the event.
Kudos, Twitter
The @NHL has definitely gone crazy. In addition to its long-term support of the Russian war and Russian crimes in Ukraine, it has come up with a new Russian project. I hope that during this December game, at the stadium and on TV will show 1) millions of dead Ukrainians in the 1930s due to a famine deliberately supported by the Kremlin. 2) Russia's start of WW2, when in September 1939 they invaded Poland together with Germany and subsequently massacred about 40 thousand Poles there (the Russians did it). The long-term killing and oppression in Eastern European countries from 1945-89, Hundreds of thousands of dead and maimed Ukrainians in the Russian imperialist war from February 2022 until now. This is just a brief overview of Russian actions that the NHL can use in the Columbus - Washington game to better familiarize fans with Russian culture...
The @BlueJacketsNHL and @Capitals are having a russian heritage night in December.
What elements of russian heritage do you think they should showcase? Drop some ideas below.
I can think of the following things that would be cool to highlight and explain to more people...
- The Holodomor
- The Katyn Massacre
- The First and Second Chechen Wars
- Poisoning Alexander Litvinenko in London
- The invasion of Georgia
- Annexation of Crimea
- War in Donbas
- The murder of 298 innocent people on MH17
- Destruction of Aleppo
- Election interference
- Skripal's and Dawn Sturgess in the UK
- Murdering civilians in Central African Republic and Mali
- Full scale invasion of Ukraine
- Attempts to assassinate Western CEO's