First, Putin’s justifications of the war:
- Mental coercion, the propaganda of pseudo-values, and the spread of hate erected a de-facto anti-Russia in Ukraine.
- Russia’s clash with the Neo-Nazi Ukrainian regime was inevitable. But we took responsibility for it. If we didn’t do what we did in February, it all would have been the same, but worse.
- It’s bitter to see that we are fighting our own people, that the fighting is taking place within a single ethnic group.
- The situation is deadly to Russia and suicidal to the Ukrainian people: we see them being thrown into the flames, treated as if they do not exist.
- Ukrainian people are the main victims of anti-Russian hate. We have always treated Ukrainians warmly and respectfully, and we still do.
And now, the slurs extracted from Dmitry Medvedev’s holiday Telegram post, for those who fall outside the realm of Russian “unity”:
- a handful of crazed drug-addicted Nazis;
- a pack of barking dogs from the western kennel;
- a piebald herd of oinking swine;
- short-sighted philistines and drooling degenerates;
- accidental fellow-travelers;
- clingers;
- sycophants;
- cowardly traitors;
- greedy defectors;
- rape victims violated by their dark lords, slave-drivers, and oppressors;
- arrogant high priests;
- bloodthirsty adepts;
- sneering acolytes;
- silent mankurts —
and finally —
