vladimir

all about education abroad

[Succeeded Mind @SucceededMind]

I'm 40.

If you're in your 30's, do this:

[IgorGirkin @GirkinGirkin]

Ukrainian freedom fighters 🫡

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

🚗❄️ Today in Lviv, Ukraine, you could see something unusual — a Tesla towing a truck that was stuck in the snow.

@Tesla @elonmusk #Tesla

[Bohdan Krotevych @BohdanKrotevych]

You know, I was born in 1993 — in an independent Ukraine.
Yet post-Soviet propaganda lived in our schools for a long time. We studied a triumphant, simplified, often fabricated history of the Soviet Union — a history in which the “side of the USSR” was automatically considered right and the only truth.
Everything that did not fit this narrative was either silenced or presented in a distorted way.
As I grew older and began to see the logical gaps in school textbooks, I started studying history on my own — not through official propaganda, but through the memoirs of people from different countries, different armies, and different ideologies.
For example, I only learned at 19, studying independently, that the USSR invaded Poland after Hitler. Yet only today, preparing this text and re-checking the facts, I discovered that it was actually a coordinated division of Poland between Hitler and Stalin, formalized in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols.
This means it is never too late to learn.

The Prime Minister of Belgium, @Bart_DeWever , was born in 1970.
By age and by office, he should know a little more than I do.
But I will allow myself to remind him of a few lessons from history — because they seem to be slipping from his rhetoric, whether due to fear or simple misunderstanding.

On the eve of the Second World War, Belgium — much like today — tried to remain neutral.
It believed that restraint and the desire not to “provoke” an aggressor would protect it from war.
But history knows no case in which fear stopped a rapist or a murderer.
On May 10, 1940, Hitler invaded anyway. Belgium fell in 18 days.
During the German breakthrough through Belgium toward France, approximately 6,093 Belgian soldiers were killed, and another 2,000 died in captivity.
The price of the illusion of safety turned out to be devastating.
In total, Belgium lost around 88,000 people during the Second World War — soldiers, civilians, victims of the Holocaust, repression, bombings, and forced labor.

After capitulation, the Belgian army was sent to prisoner-of-war camps.
And although it may sound strange, even Nazi Germany in many cases adhered to international rules concerning Western prisoners — unlike the USSR and unlike modern-day russia.
At the same time, German propaganda worked relentlessly. The Nazis managed to recruit 15,000–20,000 Belgian volunteers into the Flemish and Walloon SS divisions.
This is a telling number: occupation, fear, and propaganda always break a part of society — exactly as russia does today in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
So did fear and neutrality — the desire not to provoke the aggressor — save Belgium then? The question is rhetorical.

Now — to Prime Minister De Wever’s statements about russia

When Belgium says today that it fears confiscating russian assets because of the threat of retaliation from moscow — this is not just concern.
This is a repetition of the same logic that once opened the door to the Nazi blitzkrieg.
The rhetoric and behavior of the Belgian Prime Minister demonstrate not only the caution of a small state facing a large threat — they reveal a deeper problem.
His words reflect the mindset of someone who:

• does not believe in his own security,
• does not trust the strength of allies,
• is not convinced that Europe and NATO can protect him from an aggressor.
This is classic victim psychology:
fear paralyzes more than the threat itself, risks are exaggerated, one’s own capabilities are underestimated, and the aggressor gains influence simply from the fact of your fear.
And the main problem is not even that Belgium is afraid.
The problem is that it fears russia more than it trusts Europe and NATO.

Fear has never saved anyone from a killer.
Submission has never saved anyone from a rapist.
Appeasement has never stopped an aggressor — it only makes him bolder and whets his appetite.

Therefore, Belgium’s position is not just disagreement with the confiscation of russian assets.
It is a symptom of a crisis of Western political will, when part of Europe still thinks in categories of “better not provoke moscow” instead of “we are strong, we stand together, we defend freedom.”
This is not just submission — it is a stimulus to the appetite of the russians, and I hope Mr. De Wever understands that his fear is already an argument for russia to consider invading Europe.

If Europe continues responding with fear instead of determination, this will mark the beginning of the West’s defeat.
Europe must respond to such behavior.
Those who try to sit on two chairs must face sanctions as well.
This is not a time when one can remain neutral while standing on a battlefield.
The battlefield is all of Europe, and there is only one occupier here — russia.
All those who support it must be held responsible.

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

Center of Kyiv, two Russian missiles hit a regular residential area

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

An American M113, presumably captured by russians, with russian and US flags spotted near Zaporizhia frontlines in Ukraine.

[vladimir @vontora]

@litrslivovice @rachelvscott Thank you for your position

[Rachel Scott @rachelvscott]

This was my round of questions to Putin today

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

Movie: the US Army always saves the world and is the strongest
Reality: fixes the red carpet for Putin

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Eighty years ago, the world defeated Nazism and pledged: “Never again.” But today, Russia is repeating the crimes of the Nazis: mass graves of civilians, tortured prisoners of war, abducted children, destroyed cities.

Today, Ukrainians are fighting against Ruscism with the same courage our ancestors showed in defeating Nazism. Because this is a battle for the very essence of humanity – for freedom, dignity, and justice.

@United24media

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

Вдумайтесь, збив на смерть 10 річну, повісили все на його кента лоха, і його знов зупиняє поліція через порушення
Тупо ахуєвша мразь, таких мабуть треба по іншому виховувати

[Шикурін🇺🇦 @Shicurin]

Харків при першому знайомстві складає враження міста мрії якогось урбаніста-киянина. Якщо скласти бінго найбільш популярних претензій громадян до столиці, то велика вірогідність, що у Харкові більшість з них вирішена, чи навіть ніколи не виникала.

[ETHKyiv @ethkyiv_ua]

Oleksandr Nesterov was 21. 🕯

He was killed on April 2nd during a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.

He was on his way to pick up his mom from work when a ballistic missile hit.

Oleksandr was a talented developer — multiple-time winner at ETHKyiv hackathons, and a global winner at a TON blockchain hackathon.

An active member of the crypto community.

Tomorrow we will have our next hackathon, but he’ll never participate.

[Not your MЇlf @Tety_elswhere]

а ви хто сьогодні?

[David Ilnitsky @DavidIlnitsky]

Президент Чехии Пётр Павел опубликовал, как он отдыхает от рабочих будней, написав следующий пост:

«Желаю вам провести предстоящие пасхальные праздники так, как вам больше всего нравится... Возможно, с головой в облаках»....

Спасибо, Господин Президент! 🇨🇿

[Вал Мишель @VALMICHEL7]

— Украинская ракета прилетает по дому в Белгороде.
— Ноль эмпатии.

Браво, Ровшан. Технично вскрыл это “хорошерусское” дерьмо.

[António Costa @eucopresident]

Ваша гідність вшановує хоробрість українського народу.
Будьте сильним, будьте сміливим, будьте безстрашним. Ви ніколи не будете самотнім, дорогий Президенте @ZelenskyyUa.
Ми продовжимо працювати з Вами заради справедливого і сталого миру.

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

Even if the UK is the only country in the world supporting Ukraine, we should keep supporting them.

They are on the front line of our defence. Their sons and daughters are fighting and dying for our freedom.

We should be thanking them.

[vladimir @vontora]

@Bundeskanzler Thanks