I wish people understood that soft power isn’t intended to make you “glorify” Russia. It’s intended to normalize Russia; to make you listen to Russian music, learn the Russian language, adore Russian culture… all while ignoring the genocide Russia is currently perpetrating.
welp
Breach went #1.
why did this make me so happy i teared up a little? NOT A LOT. a little.
10 years ago i didn’t even really understand what a #1 album meant, but then ever since blurryface i kind of really wanted it again, but never got it.
then i stopped wanting it and just wrote an album for you. for us.
and that’s when you guys showed up bigger than ever. you did this. buying vinyl, or a box set, or going to listening events, or streaming and telling other people. thank you so much.
this is the most proud i’ve ever been to be a part of this band.
if you only knew how many industry people are confused right now.
wait, what? yeah. we did.
I feel sick. A red carpet. After everything Putin has done. After Bucha, Mariupol, Kramatorsk railway station attack, the kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, after countless other Russian war crimes. He is welcomed as if nothing has happened.
The normalization of the daily massive shelling of Ukraine is truly terrifying. Every day, the Russians are launching more and more drones and missiles, and the reaction of Europe and the United States is to simply pretend that it has always been like this.
Just watched a idocumentary with a very brave woman describes how ten russian soldiers tortured her (and worse) in a garage for ten days while she listened to them tear out her husband's teeth and eventually shoot him in the head.
Fuck the 475k people who liked this.
The russian attack destroyed the warehouse of the "Ukrainian Priority" publishing house, burning thousands of books. In this video: its founder, Volodymyr Shovkoshytnyi -- also co-author of Ukraine's Constitution -- stands among the ashes of their books.
14 people killed, including 6 children: Russia launched a ballistic strike on a residential area of Kryvyi Rih near a children's playground.
Those who talk about peace are showing their true intentions to the world. Russia wants nothing but war.
In 1987, Trump was having financial difficulties (he lost $1 Billion dollars from 1978-1990) - so he turned to Russia. The KGB literally paid for his trip to Russia, and he was recruited by the KGB. #Krasnov
r*ssian folklore, r*ssian songs, r*ssian language, r*ssian “slavic” culture, r*ssian whales…rasputin, dostoevsky, tchaikovsky, the kremlin, the nutcracker. for once. for FUCKING once, is it really so hard for people to take inspiration from literally ANYWHERE ELSE??????
Maxym, just 12 years old, and his grandmother, Valentyna, were tragically killed today by a Russian strike in their own home in Kryvyi Rih.
His parents are making their way back from another city, devastated by the loss. Maxym's mother had served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while his older brother defended Mariupol and is now a prisoner of war.