A Year Has Passed! Hard to Believe...
My previous post gathered a large number of comments - Why There Won't Be New Recipes? Sponsorship. More than five hundred comments, to be precise.
Many times I sat down to write a new post, but each time I realized how pointless it was. What can one new post of mine change against years of brainwashing and the bitterness of an entire nation of 140 million people?! The things my dear readers from Russia called me in the comments to the previous post: I'm a Nazi, a fair-faced fascist, my children are fascist too, I'm an under-cook, an under-culinary-blogger, a beggar, I have no right to write in Russian, someone made me write that post and paid me for it, I'm lying about everything, and the photos of the destroyed cities are fake, and so on and so forth.
Russians, almost a year has passed and much has changed. I hope that by now you understand that it is not us shelling ourselves, killing ourselves, leaving ourselves without light and heat. All of this is being done by the hands of your sons, husbands, and brothers. It is they — your men — who, following criminal orders, launch missiles at our cities. And other men of yours travel to the territory of a neighboring sovereign country to wage war. For some reason they claim to be defending their homeland there — a homeland that no one attacked or had any intention of attacking. It's theater of the absurd — defending your homeland on the territory of a neighboring sovereign state. Your homeland needs to be defended only from your own leadership. Your enemy is within.
Just as I did a year ago, I urge you: stay home! Convince, explain, talk your beloved men out of it, and save their lives! If it comes down to it, prison is better than death!
The thing is, most Russians don't understand the difference between their Homeland and the State. The Homeland is your place of origin, the world of feelings and core human values. The State is a form of societal organization run by a bureaucratic apparatus. The State is supposed to serve the people, protect your rights and freedoms, and make your life better! Instead, your state is trying to destroy a neighboring country.
The Homeland is not the State. And refusing to participate in a criminal war is in no way a betrayal of your homeland — it is the protest of a conscious, rational person against the lawlessness of their government.
Now, back to me. My family is doing well; since I wrote the first post we have moved again, to another Ukrainian city. Reluctant travelers, that's what we are.
Regarding the website — as many have noticed, the site is now on a .com domain. If you have bookmarks in your browser pointing to the old version, please update them to the new one. Right now the redirect happens automatically, but that won't always be the case.
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported me morally and financially throughout this difficult year! It means so much!And you bots humans, go ahead and tell me about the "eight years of bombing the Donbass" -- Where were you for eight years?