Nami (Patreon)

Nami from One Piece!

Hello. I wish it was an ordinary month, buuuuuuut... Shit happened. I usually don't get into politics here because this is not the place for politics. But now is a special case. I have talked with my European and American friends and, as it turned out, they have no idea what is really happening in Russia. So I want to talk a bit about it.

Here is some accurate post Ive stumbled on reddit.

"Putin has gone completely mad and we, Russians, have no means of stopping him. Why don't we protest against the war? Any and all opposition is physically eradicated: killed, jailed or threatened into silence. Protesting is illegal, any mass gathering will be immediately destroyed with mass beatings, water cannons and torture in police stations afterwards. Even if you manage to voice your opinion on the streets in a completely legal way, you will be arrested anyway because fuck you. You can be beaten, brought to court and jailed for a like under a random social media post (just like this post) if a police officer sees it when he needs to improve his statistics. 

I don't even get what he wants to achieve. Petty revenge for disobedience? Mindless landgrab? Sincere delusion about Ukraine being evil? I don't know and I'm not sure I even want to know. All I see is that they aren't even trying to look realistic. All "direct broadcasts" of their gatherings are badly pre-recorded, all decisions are taken in advance. Their speeches make me feel like I'm reading a really bad satiric novel. It looks like even Putin's closest comrades are afraid of him and don't know what he's doing or thinking. " 

Nowadays Russian TV doesn't even show anything about the war. And only on the fourth day they reported that there were some losses among our soldiers. As if there was no war during all this time. And when we, Russians, show our parents and people who do not have access to alternative sources of information what is really happening in Ukraine now, they cannot believe us. "Are you sure it's true?" they answer. It is impossible to believe that such cruelty comes from your country. I don't support it. No normal person in Russia will supports this. Anyone who supports this war is either misinformed by tons of propaganda or a propagandist himself. Putin is trying to hide the truth from the Russians because no Russian would ever want to go to war with Ukraine. Only Putin wants to fight against Ukraine.

As for me, I'm safe. But, a couple of hours ago, Putin announced the preparation of nuclear weapons (who even threatens with nuclear weapons in the real world????). In the worst case, I will not have time to release the animation. But I have almost finished it!!! I stopped payouts from patreon so that no money comes to Russian banks. Just in case... At least until the war is over. I have some money (I saved up for a move ;_;), which depreciated 2 times in 2 days, lol. I have enough for a while. Just in case, I'll stock up on canned food for myself and cat food for cats tomorrow!

With this post I can be jailed for treason up to 20 years of imprisonment xD No joke

#nowar #нетвойне