We are not surprised.
As they said in Fargo, “Out of respect for the survivors, names have been changed, and out of respect for the dead, everything has been shown as it really happened.”
We’re not Fargo. We don’t change names.
As it was said in Wajda’s film, “I choose the killed, not the killers.”
“No one on this platform can become ‘patrons’ of non-Russian nations, even if they include misguided or corrupt individuals. Only members of national liberation organisations have the right to speak on behalf of their homeland. What matters is not the liberation of non-existent ‘nations of Russia,’ but the liberation of nations from their enslaver, from Russia.”
You might think that this phrase has a bearing on today’s Liturgy of the Catechumens at PACE.
No, it’s 1951.
This is a protest of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations against Kerensky’s “Union for the Liberation of the Nations of Russia”.
This has all happened several times already.
The Kremlin’s soft power was at work whenever the empire needed to regroup.
Here, I show the key points at which the Russian empire’s soft power acted to regroup, outwitting everyone, mercilessly crushing with its punitive machine those who stood in its way and those who spoke the truth.
The Kremlin’s soft power, which ABN warned about, has ensured that forces hostile to the idea of independence have prevailed in the post-Soviet space.
This was a huge mistake that led to disaster. Today, after four years of full-scale war, both Ukrainian and Georgian societies must rid themselves of the Kremlin’s agents posing as Russian democrats.
Remember this date.
On 26 January 2026, the hellish empire of ground bones and its soft power, through collaborators and bribed people, carried out another successful self-preservation manoeuvre.
I will remember this date well.
Today, my granddaughter turned one year old.
Inna Kurochkina
