‘Mad dogs’

People belonging to national minorities “should be forced to their knees and shot like mad dogs.” It was not an SS officer speaking but a communist party leader, in the spirit of the national operations of Stalin’s Great Terror.

— Bloodlands (Timothy Snyder), Loc. 1981–2

As if you were needed another reason to hate Ruzzia.

I cannot read that book, as much as I cannot watch ‘20 days in Mariupol.’ I fucking watch it for a couple of minutes, and cannot watch it further. I watch this movie for like years already. Same thing with that book. I had it started… like… a few years ago.

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