The search for good Russians among representatives of the aggressor country is not the time for Ukraine/Ukrayinska Pravda
Since I am regularly pulled on this topic from all sides, I will speak here, thesis. 1. “Good skinny” (hereinafter referred to as XP), of course, there are, and I even know some personally.
This is from one of them (a person once public, and after 2014 threatened, so I won’t name it) I heard in 2015 “We are all accomplices” – a phrase that is much more accurate “Whose Crimea?” has since served as an identifying marker for XP: does he feel like an accomplice, or is there no one to blame in the world?
Today, such a criterion of “goodness” should be the desire to defeat one's country. Who needs, for some reason, to look for XP – that's why measure it.
2. XP, even though they exist, it’s completely out of time for us now. Looking for them, and also, God forbid, advertising, discussing, arguing, and so on, you are wasting your own and someone else’s limited resource (attention, time, effort, energy, memory) to a result as unproductive as if you spent this time searching for the square root of a random eight-digit number.
For, firstly, XP exist in such proportionately meager numbers that they can only be of interest anthropologically (“what percentage of people in the population remains psychologically stable and does not turn into Ionesco rhinos under the influence of induced madness”). Secondly, they do not affect anything in that population, and thirdly, they themselves are so bad (morally – incomparably worse than us!), that at some stage you will also sympathize with them.
That is, in fact, pull your emotional resource “to the side”, “over the curb”, while in the interests of our common (and your personal) security, it would be much more useful to “leave it in the house” – giving your own (by no means dimensionless in conditions of chronic stress!) sympathy for the raped girls of Bucha and Gostomel or the Mariupol refugees.
This, by the way, is my main claim to those XP who fled Russia and now in the West cry for fate – every time I feel for this is the very “vampire of the resource”, this time among Ukrainian refugees, which I noticed even earlier from their popular “women's” sites.
Let's be smarter and smarter. While the Russian Federation has not yet signed the act of surrender, XP is absolutely useless to us. I understand that this sounds cynical, but sorry, we have a war, our task is to survive and win, and, accordingly, we need to organize our own spiritual hygiene.
3.In all problematic cases (when it is necessary to determine whether this particular instance is XP, or whether it follows the ship), I propose to keep in mind an extremely useful, unfortunately forgotten proverb by us, which served as a meme to our ancestors in the 19th century: “Maybe you, a Muscovite, are a kind person, but your overcoat is a thief” (c). This is truly brilliantly said, to comprehend is not to rethink.
4. All of the above applies to both the living and the dead (the dead local poets, novelists, actors, bards, rockers and others). I also have favorites among them, like each of us (colonial education is when a native knows the culture of the metropolis better than his own, and this, unfortunately, also applies to those who were educated in independent Ukraine).
But I won’t tell you about those pets now, because see point 2 – this is the time, and besides, compliance with point 3 has always helped me keep that emotional distance with my pets so as not to swallow everything from them indiscriminately (see , where the “overcoat” comes out, and to separate flies from cutlets, edible from toxic). Not everyone has such “working with text” skills, they have been developed over the years, so for now, see point 2.
