Last night, Ukrainian peaceful cities were again shaken by explosions - almost fifty missiles and 476 drones were fired into Ukraine. Dozens of people died in Ternopil, including children. This is not the first such night for our country, but it is no less terrible.. However, every next morning after a night of terror, shelling and hits, tears and worries, every Ukrainian city is reborn again. Not like the Phoenix bird, a pathetic comparison with which immediately appears in the head, but like an ant family, where everyone has their own task: to protect, clean, feed, search, teach, console with a kind word, help. And so you walk along the street of your hometown to work - you can feel a slight smell in the air, either gunpowder from air defense missiles, or burning from extinguished fires in high-rise buildings - and you think. Do you think about the limit of human endurance?. And what exactly is the final goal of the night Russian terror, vile and merciless attacks. After all, everyone understands that shelling of rear cities does not affect the overall picture at the front and does not change what is called the “confrontation line” in official reports..
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The answer, of course, seems to be on the surface, because, in the end, the Russians do not hide their intentions to destroy the energy system of Ukraine, economically weaken the state, forcing part of the resources to be directed to restoration and compensation, and psychologically deplete Ukrainian society. The latter is indeed rarely mentioned by analysts when they try to explain the crimes of the Russian Federation against civilians. And we are talking not only about the inability to get a good night’s sleep, and therefore rest at night, when the human body requires rest and relaxation for the sake of further active activity, quick thinking, etc..
The Russians want us to break down internally - cry, hide in basements, like in holes, sit in the cold and darkness and ask for an end to the war on any terms. From time to time you hear out of the corner of your ear in transport or shops such insidious phrases: “Let’s negotiate,” “Yes, as much as possible,” “Let’s agree to everything they want.”. Do not think that they are uttered exclusively by “waiters” or enemy agents. Ordinary people who do not know history well may also believe that it is enough for the aggressor to give a finger and he will not touch his hand or even his entire body. Therefore, you can simply repeat the legendary phrase of a native of Kyiv, and later one of the founders of the state of Israel, Golda Meir: “You cannot negotiate peace with those who came to kill you.”.
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But we can best understand the tactics of the Russians if we remember what they did to the civilian population in peacetime - during the period that we now call the “Great Terror”. In 1937–1938, various forms of psychological pressure, physical torture and punishment were a common practice for investigators in dealing with arrested or suspects.. The well-known novel by Ivan Bagryany “Getsimansky Garden” describes in detail all the then almost daily ways of breaking people and Jesuitical mockery of those who tried to maintain their dignity. And although the work of Ivan Bagryany is autobiographical, it is still an artistic text. Therefore, it would not be amiss to recall the testimonies of those who were able to survive the years of Russian-Bolshevik darkness.
Journalist and public figure Nikolai Prikhodko (1907–? ), who managed to go to Canada after the Second World War, left eloquent testimony about his stay in the Lukyanovskaya prison and the interrogations he experienced in the premises of the Kyiv regional department of the NKVD on the street. Rosa Luxemburg (now st.. Lipskaya, 16). Remembering his cellmates (peasants, students and respected intellectual professors, ordinary railway workers and city drunkards) and their stories, in the book “On the Roads of Death” he wrote that the entire system was thought out and organized in such a way as to suppress a person morally and physically as much as possible and to facilitate the “work” of the investigator. Beating chairs with oak legs or a board with nails, standing on your feet for many hours, putting fingers in doors, simulating execution - this is far from a complete arsenal of “persuasion methods” on the part of the then NKVD. True, it reminds me of something?
Let us remember the stories of our prisoners of war about what they had to endure in Russian captivity. Nothing has changed. The misanthropic essence of the Russian Empire is the same, no matter what flag colors it is wrapped in. Nikolai Prikhodko recalled: “It often happened that after interrogation, “shturpaks” dragged a person by the arms or legs along the corridor and, like a bundle, were thrown into a cell. It also happened that a person was called in for interrogation without a break for several days. From beatings and lack of sleep, a person fell into a state of stupefied madness. And finally, having broken down, he signed any legends of the investigator" The result of such signatures, unfortunately, became mass burial grounds from Bykivnia in Kyiv to Rutchenkovo \u200b\u200bPole in Donetsk and Demyanova Laz in Ivano-Frankivsk, where tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens are buried.
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The name of Zinaida Tulub (1890–1964) is known to everyone who is interested in Ukrainian historical novels. Her most famous work, the dilogy “Lyudolovi”, dynamically describes the struggle of Ukrainians under the leadership of Petro Sagaidachny. At the same time, only people familiar with the history of national writing know about the writer’s exile to Kolyma. I will not tell all the circumstances of the case, I will simply note that an NKVD employee, state security lieutenant Khvat, squeezed out of the woman a confession that she had become a member of the counter-revolutionary organization “Viborchy Center”, which “carries out subversive work before the next Soviet elections”.
The absurdity of the situation was added by the fact that according to the Constitution of the USSR in 1936, all citizens were granted general, equal and direct suffrage. That is, no one had the right to prohibit either her or anyone else from nominating their candidacy even with an opposition opinion. However, the reality turned out to be different. Zinaida Tulub received 10 years of imprisonment in Gulag camps. In a letter addressed to Kliment Voroshilov in 1954, the writer asks for rehabilitation and explains the circumstances that forced her to incriminate herself. Confusion after the first interrogation, during which the investigator rudely swore, threatened to rot in the basement, kept him for two or three days without rest or food, gave way to exhaustion and despair, thoughts of suicide.. “Death began to seem to me the only savior from this horror,” this intelligent woman later recalled. In the end, after another week, deprived of sleep and rest, Zinaida Tulub signed the charge and for a long time lost what she considered the basis of her life: her favorite job, the opportunity to communicate with friends, write a novel about Giordano Bruno.
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By telling these stories, I do not want to scare, but to remind us all from what darkness Ukraine managed to escape after gaining independence.. This darkness has not gone away. It became the basis of the modern Russian political system, the basis of the ideology that the aggressor state now professes. In their picture of the world there is no right, no respect for the opinion of others, and, in the end, no value of human life. They want to break our internal resistance and psychological resilience, as they did when they had power over our land. Therefore, they are trying to deprive us of warmth and light, sleep and a sense of security in relatively peaceful cities. We can and must oppose them with our Ukrainian stubbornness, tenacity and uncontrollable desire to preserve our freedom above all else, because we remember well what a terrible price we paid when we found ourselves in the Soviet version of the Russian Empire. So let's keep in line!
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