Stalin and his supporters called the Russian people “older brother” in the late 1930s. Elders – towards other nations of the Soviet Union. He probably had the Ukrainian nation in mind first and foremost. The second largest in the USSR.
This phrase came at the right time. The most severe phase of the destruction of the rural population has just ended. This subsequent civil war – in the literal sense: a war against one's own citizens – was particularly genocidal in the most fertile regions of the Union. It was there that monsters and cannibals, murderers and rapists reaped the greatest harvest – both in the literal and metaphorical sense.
A few decades later, Ukrainians will find an accurate and capacious term for this “accident”, for this human-made disaster: Holodomor. Murder by hunger.
Almost a hundred years after the Holodomor, the Ukrainian nation faced a new “brotherly” initiative: the Holodomor. Cold kills.
Residents of Kiev warm themselves around a makeshift fire, Ukraine, January 28, 2026.Maxim Marusenko / PAP
Yes, of course, the Holodomor affected not only Ukrainians. But it was they who most accurately called Moscow's deliberate policy aimed at destroying its own citizens. They were the ones who told without beating around the bush what really happened to millions of peasants in a land rich in grain. It was not nature or its disasters that brought hunger upon them.
It was man who invented the method of killing, using a lying and merciless ideology. Despite everything, the Ukrainian nation somehow survived, somehow rebuilt itself and decided to look for its future outside the “brotherly” community with Moscow.
The “older brother” reaches for the whip
As it turned out, however, this Ukrainian audacity was not forgiven in Moscow. “Holodomor”, you say? And not the historically necessary collectivization of life and work in the countryside? Do you want to call some distortions and mistakes a crime? And on top of that, this unnatural love affair with the West, a betrayal of our great common past? There will be no consent to this!
And the “older brother” decided to punish the “younger” one. The Russian Federation began – as the occupiers themselves put it – “fucking Khokhl”. At the end of the fourth year of the war, a way was found to finally solve the Ukrainian issue.
Not by hunger – but by cold. This year's winter is harsh, frosty and long. It will help bring the rebellious to their knees. It just went on from there. Or rather, it flew. Little? We can repeat!
A resident draws water from a public pump in Kiev, Ukraine, January 24, 2026.ANDREW KRAVCHENKO / PAP
Revenge for independence
I have no doubt that Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich and other Kremlin fuhrers have not forgotten the persistent resistance of the Ukrainian peasantry and intelligentsia during the years of the civil war. This national awakening that swept Ukraine after the fall of the Russian monarchy. That the Ukrainian People's Republic was established. That it did not accept the Bolshevik coup and set a course for full independence from the Moscow commissars – during the Brest talks in 1918, representatives of the UNR asked Germany and Austria-Hungary for protection against the Bolsheviks.
This was also related to the total ruthlessness of collectivization in Ukraine. On the Volga, on the Don, in the Stavropol region, in the Central Chernozem region and in Kazakhstan, Bolshevik brutality also reached its zenith. Scores were also settled there, and cannibal madness reigned there – literally and figuratively.
But Ukrainians claimed the right to their own statehood and their own culture. That is why they have become a special object of hatred of great-power Russian chauvinism – in its new version.
What is worth emphasizing: carried out by international hands – the Georgian Stalin, Great Russian Molotov, the Jew Kaganovich… Internationalism! Only it is not proletarian, but criminal. Beasts that drank the blood of the multi-ethnic Soviet nation and bared their fangs at other countries and nations.
“We won't give up…”
After half a century, the communist Reich collapsed. The totalitarian “brotherhood of nations” has come to an end. The decisive factor in the collapse of the USSR was the departure of Ukraine from Moscow's rule. The new “great powers” did not want to accept this.
We will not give up Crimea! We will not give up Donbas!
And we will not give up all three Ukrainian Fronts from the Great Patriotic War!
It's time to put an end to these troublemakers. They allow themselves too much: Ukraine is not Russia. We set a condition: either return to our “Russian Mir” or we will grind you into dust. The Holodomor will not pass today – times are different – we will freeze you.
We are witnesses – and in a moral sense, due to our passivity and callousness, also co-participants – of a historical tragedy: the attempt to annihilate the Ukrainian nation.
What Stalin only partially managed to achieve, Putin decided to bring it to an end.
Residents of Kiev waiting for hot meals, Ukraine, January 23, 2026.Maxim Marusenko / PAP
“This is a hunt”
Putin's (and Putin's supporters) idea is to “freeze” Ukraine a bit so that it doesn't “rot” [— to aluzja do słów płomiennego reakcjonisty Konstantina Leontjewa: “Rosję trzeba podmrozić, żeby nie zgniła”]. And it's best – not lightly, but freeze it properly. More effective. Turn their homeland into an ice house.
There will be harmony within – from those who survive. Although it too will quickly turn into ice. This is not politics or geopolitics. This is a nation hunt.
This is the end of the story. It's a lockdown chill. Life-burning. An artificially constructed refrigerator, constructed by craftsmen of the Third Rome.
According to data from the Levada Center, 76 percent of surveyed Russians support the war against Ukraine.
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