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Day 73:
You know the drill. Every 14th of February you get the chance to display your fondness for a significant other by showering her with gifts, flowers, dinner, shows and any other baubles that women find romantic. Every Valentines day you rack your brains for that one special, unique gift that will show your wife or girlfriend that you really do care for them more than any other. Now ladies, I'll let you in on a little secret; guys really don't enjoy this that much. Sure seeing that smile on your face when we get it right is priceless, but that smile is the result of weeks of blood, sweat and consideration. Another secret; guys feel left out. That's right, there's no special holiday for the ladies to show their appreciation for the men in their life. Men as a whole are either too proud or too embarrassed to admit it.
Which is why a new holiday has been created.
March 14th is now officially "Steak and Blowjob Day". Simple, effective and self explanatory, this holiday has been created so you ladies finally have a day to show your man how much you care for him.
No cards, no flowers, no special nights on the town; the name of the holiday explains it all, just a steak and a BJ. Thats it. Finally, this twin pair of Valentine's Day and Steak and Blowjob Day will usher in a new age of love as men everywhere try THAT much harder in February to ensure a memorable March 14th!
The word is already beginning to spread, but as with any new idea, it needs a little push to start the ball rolling. So spread the word, and help bring love and peace to this crazy world. And, of course, steak and BJ's.
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Current position: # 90
This photograph shows a rally on Independence Square (the Maidan) in Kyiv on December 1, 2013.
That day, approximately 800,000 people gathered in the center of Kyiv. Of course, I was there too, along with my friends. The gray tones of this photograph, taken with a low-budget mobile phone, convey the atmosphere of those days well and stand in sharp contrast to the orange colors of the revolution nine years earlier (which felt more like a performance).
A few days before that, students who had come out to protest President Yanukovych’s refusal to sign the Association Agreement with the EU were demonstratively and brutally beaten on the Maidan. He refused to do so at the very last moment, while attending the summit in Vilnius.
On November 30 at 4 a.m., police officers from the special unit ‘Berkut’ (which was supposedly created to combat organized crime but in reality consisted of outright sadists trained to beat people in prisons and used by the authorities for forceful actions against demonstrators as well as for all kinds of dirty work) waited until only a small number of students remained on the square—and then carried out a bloody massacre.
The students were chased all along Khreshchatyk; when caught, they were beaten with batons, kicked, and assaulted in other ways. In total, that bloody morning left 94 people injured—unarmed young men and women who had simply decided to express their disagreement with the reversal of their country’s foreign policy course.
So this time the protesters were no longer entirely peaceful either. On the very day this photograph was taken, they immediately occupied the Kyiv City Council building and turned it into the headquarters of the resistance movement (the building is located on Khreshchatyk, next to the Maidan; in fact, I heard the sound of breaking glass there, and then the corresponding announcement was made).
Closer to the evening, aggressively minded groups began gathering near the Presidential Administration building, which the authorities had заранее protected with dense lines of those same special-unit troops, equipped with shields and helmets. I went there as well, but sensing how extremely tense the atmosphere was, I decided to leave and get away from trouble—and I was right to do so, because soon another attack by the “Berkut” units on the demonstrators began, during which people were beaten even more brutally (and by then no one was distinguishing between protesters, journalists, or people who were simply passing by).
The Berkut officers beat people en masse, as they liked to do. Many victims of that crackdown ended up in hospitals; many others were thrown into prison. The official casualty figures were 112 civilians and 45 journalists.
Despite all this, attempts to intimidate the people through demonstrative brutality failed—quite the opposite. People began arriving in Kyiv from all over Ukraine and joining the ranks of the ‘Maidan protesters’; some foreign citizens joined them as well, and local Maidans sprang up in regional cities across Ukraine.
In response, the authorities shifted to tactics of abductions, torture, and the killing of activists.
I will not describe in detail the chronology of those events, which were later called the ‘Revolution of Dignity.’ There were repeated attempts to storm the protesters’ camp (the city center was effectively barricaded). There were also attempts by Yanukovych—through the mediation of American and European diplomats—to negotiate with those who presented themselves as leaders of the protest movement (in particular with former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who now lives in his estate in the United States and whom I personally consider a scoundrel).
In the end, Yanukovych decided to flee Ukraine to Russia, after first giving the order to shoot protesters with firearms (or the order was given by one of his deputies—I do not know. The investigation into those events was later effectively buried, and the evidence destroyed).
On February 20, the bloody climax began, costing the lives of 48 protesters, with more than 80 wounded (four members of the security forces were also killed). Ultimately, Yanukovych’s regime fell—but by and large, the Maidan was defeated as well.
Why do I say that? Because its results were once again exploited by the same criminal–oligarchic groups that have controlled this country since the 1990s. Soon afterward, Petro Poroshenko became president of Ukraine. Although he is considered a ‘pro-Western’ and ‘nationally oriented’ politician, he is in fact a classic oligarch—a person who simultaneously owns major businesses, vast wealth, media outlets, has his own political force, and wields political power.
Those political movements that emerged from ordinary activists (the so-called ‘Maidan parties’) failed to receive significant support in the parliamentary elections. Society decided that the ‘smart and wealthy uncles’ knew better what should be done with the country—especially since they were shown on all national television channels (almost all media in the country at the time were oligarch-owned), on the radio, and on ubiquitous billboards.
Thus, although Ukraine formally maintained a pro-European course, in general it remained the same corrupt, clan-based oligarchic state, with weak civic institutions, a pitifully small middle class and intelligentsia, an impoverished majority of the population, and a handful of super-rich individuals. Perhaps this picture is exaggerated, but if one were to describe our reality briefly, this is what it was like (and what it is today as well, with certain adjustments—for the worse…).
The thing is that Ukraine did not gain independence in 1991 as a result of a national liberation struggle or any kind of mass popular movement—no. It was proclaimed by the republican Communist Party nomenklatura. These functionaries had grown tired of imitating the construction of communism; they understood the dead-end nature of this path and saw how far ahead the West had gone in terms of socio-economic prosperity. They wanted to become millionaires and billionaires and to openly enjoy life ‘to the fullest.’ Essentially, that is what happened.
The national-patriotic forces, led by dissidents Vyacheslav Chornovil (killed in 1999) and Levko Lukyanenko (each of whom had spent nearly a quarter of a century in Soviet prisons), did not receive significant public support. Their maximum result was only about 30% of the total composition of parliament, and it declined further afterward.
The nomenklatura remained in power, while leaders of organized criminal groups began breathing down their necks. The ‘carving up’ of public property began—property accumulated through the hard labor of previous generations of Ukrainians, residents of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic.
It was precisely during the presidency of Leonid Kuchma that the architecture of the clan–oligarchic model of governing Ukraine took shape, with Kuchma as its architect. Political power and state property, super-profitable enterprises, and entire sectors of the economy were distributed among a limited circle of individuals who became multi-billionaires almost overnight (and remain so to this day). Kuchma’s son-in-law, Viktor Pinchuk, is one of them. Rinat Akhmetov (a man of Tatar origin from the Donbas, with an openly criminal past), Firtash, Kolomoisky, Poroshenko, and others—they are the real masters of Ukraine, even though many of them do not live here now. In recent years, however, they have been forced to ‘share’ Ukraine’s agricultural land and the remnants of its natural resources with transnational corporations.
Under such an architecture, state institutions were from the outset created as corrupt structures designed to serve oligarchic interests. Legislation was written exclusively in the interests of clan–oligarchic groups (and the oligarchs themselves held seats in parliament and had their own political parties). These oligarchs, being boundlessly greedy, fought—and continue to fight—among themselves, forming situational coalitions and manipulating the population through the media. In fact, it was precisely this that led Ukraine to ideological split and war, to its catastrophic condition today, and to the brink of final destruction.
I would like to separately note the role of the Soros Foundation, the BlackRock corporation, and other similar organizations, which through their numerous grants effectively created a fake civil society in Ukraine—opinion leaders who supposedly fought corruption, promoted various gender issues, the LGBT agenda, and so on, while receiving generous funding. In reality, through their grant programs, they began turning Ukraine into an ‘anti-Russia,’ and over 30 years they succeeded in this. Instead of investing in real reforms and the genuine European integration of Ukrainians, people were morally prepared for war all this time. And this is what we now have. This is, of course, my subjective opinion.
For me it is obvious that the West does not see Ukraine as part of itself. We are not trusted; no one wants to invest in us. We are seen merely as a buffer zone between Russia and the West—nothing more. Our able-bodied and reproductive youth—they have already taken them in. Those who remain living in Ukraine—the elderly, veterans and disabled people of the war, the security forces and the bureaucratic apparatus of Ukraine—are of no interest to them whatsoever.
You will see: a day after the war ends, EU countries will reintroduce a visa regime with Ukraine, or even fence themselves off entirely, declaring our state undemocratic (and having formal grounds to do so). We have been turned into a ‘steel porcupine’—a punching bag meant to be beaten. What I am writing here may seem unpleasant to you, but I predict that in the foreseeable future such reproaches from Ukrainians may become a mass phenomenon, and perhaps even the official position of the Ukrainian state (if it survives at all). And you will have to understand where these reproaches come from and why.
Back in 2014, immediately after Yanukovych fled, Putin sent his troops into the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, annexing it virtually without a fight (Kyiv simply never gave the army an order to open fire). Then detachments led by Russian KGB/FSB officer Igor Girkin began a separatist movement in the Donbas, which soon escalated into what was called the ATO (formally an ‘anti-terrorist operation,’ but in reality an undeclared war between the Russian and Ukrainian armies in a limited region).
In 2019, a random person from a humorous TV show became president of Ukraine (a man who had previously played the role of an ordinary Ukrainian schoolteacher who accidentally became president in a television series!). The people decided that electing a comedian-actor with no political experience whatsoever was better than voting for the tiresome pseudo-patriotic oligarch Poroshenko. In the subsequent parliamentary elections, people blindly voted for the same kind of ‘people from nowhere,’ supporting President Zelensky’s party 'Servant of the People', which had been created just a few months earlier. And this party unexpectedly won a constitutional majority!
Instead of crafty oligarchs and politicians fed by them, the parliament was filled—once again—with random people: wedding photographers, blowjob instructors (I’m not joking), supermarket beer thieves, and so on. People believed that this rabble would be able to help Ukraine climb out of the swamp... It didn’t work.
The country sank into incompetence, new corruption scandals, attempts at redistributing property (so-called raiding), and more. Defense contracts were sabotaged; people were leaving the army en masse; many were leaving the country altogether. By February 24, Ukraine approached the invasion in a fairly weakened defensive state. This allowed the Russians, in just a few days, to advance to the outskirts of Kyiv and seize vast territories in the south of the country.
The authorities either fled or switched sides to the Russians. Then, once again, there was grassroots self-organization and a volunteer movement, which made it possible to repel the enemy for a short time, push it back from the capital, and force it into retreat. And then—there was yet another betrayal by the pseudo-elites, a refusal to conclude peace agreements in Istanbul, and afterward everything slid back again.
Legal lawlessness, authoritarianism, looting, corruption, and the comprador nature of the pseudo-elites against the backdrop of a losing war—that is what we have now.
This turned into a very long text. Perhaps it is time to put a full stop here—or at least an ellipsis…
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Dear Flickr staff,
This is a photograph of a sculpture that is on public display in a central courtyard in Greve in Chianti, Chianti, Tuscany, Italy. Please don't tell me that this is the reason why my account is flagged as restricted. This is a legitimate piece of art that's legitimately displayed for viewing by anyone who visits and surely it's not the only picture that's been posted of this work.
Please do not ask me to censor art. Content filters may be appropriate for some things, but a sculpture? Really?! Should we also restrict photos of classical sculptures and paintings? What's next?
The point of art is to make an impression on the viewer. Please do not censor legitimate art.
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