Well, it’s touching how urban liberals, students of the humanities, journalists, politicians, artists, athletes, etcetera… are moved by every Ukrainian cleaning lady and every Ukrainian worker (Ukrainians have a similar position in the Czech Republic and Poland as Latinos in the US).
It doesn’t matter that they normally despise these people and consider them inferior. Now is the time when they can show that they are humanitarians and still make money socially. The head of the department is standing on Wenceslas Square too, at a demonstration for Ukraine, so I’ll stand next to him so he can see that I’m also compassionate…the head of the company I work for, which takes subsidies, is standing there too, so I’ll stand next to him so he’ll remember me when he gets promoted in the company…the head of the theatre is standing there, I’ll stand next to him and I’ll have better roles…etcetera…
I have bad news for them. There’s not enough money for everyone. Resources will be limited, even with the war the urban liberals wanted and craved so badly, because war also means boom and opportunity, right.
They don’t care how many Ukrainians and how many Russians die in the conflict
They don’t care how many Ukrainians and how many Russians die in the conflict (of course they want as many Russians as possible, they are also “Untermensch” for them).
It didn’t matter how many Serbs died in the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, it was a humanitarian bombing and it was about the poor Kosovo Albanians…(no need to talk about the manipulations of the mainstream, we remember them)… It doesn’t matter how many Russians die and who didn’t leave them alone in the Donbas. They don’t care how many Ukrainians die, who were promised the impossible and all we helped them to do is war.
Those who subsequently profit from all this, whether in politics, in schools or in companies, have blood on their hands. The blood of Ukrainians and Russians.
It is certainly easy and convenient to say that everything is Putin’s fault. But this war, it’s not just his. This war is everyone’s who, in their ridiculous and criminal ambition, supported this problem until this war was born out of it.
It is up to God and his mills, but it will come, it will come back like a boomerang, on your children and grandchildren at the latest.
I once worked as a 20 year old on a construction site with workers from Ukraine and Russia and their lives, they are really hard.
I have been warning against this war for more than half a year and I am against it, I once worked as a 20 year old on a construction site with workers from Ukraine and Russia and their lives, they are really hard.
It is only our shame that we make it even harder for them.
Tomas Mestan is a Czech film director.
