#ukrainian city

[anastasiamaru]

🪻 Rivne City 🪻

"Ostvytsya"Hystorical Reconstruction Park

Was founded in 2020 on the shores of Lake Basiv Kut,near the Basivkutsk settlement of the 11th-12th centuries

This park bears the ancient name of the Ustya River and recreates the atmosphere of an ancient settlement

2 piers,2 large canopies,an entrance gate and a bridge were built on the territory of almost 2 hectares,paths were arranged,benches were installed and a model of an Ancient Kyiv Rus log house was built

📷:Ne:Urban

[dksexpress]

President Zelensky visits recaptured Ukrainian city of Izyum: Report 14Sep 202

President Zelensky visits recaptured Ukrainian city of Izyum: Report 14Sep 202

President Zelensky visits recaptured Ukrainian city of Izyum President Volodymyr Zelensky leaves for the recaptured city of Izium, a major logistics hub in north-eastern Ukraine. During his visit, Mr. Zelensky thanked the soldiers who took part in the counter-offensive against the Russian occupiers. He oversaw a flag-hoisting ceremony and said that the flag of Ukraine would return to every city…

[easternblocrelics]

Trade Unions Building Kiev, Ukrainian SSR Color Negative 1980s

[yuliia-ozen]

[redjaybathood]

I am seriously considering that actually, the best poet for Jason Todd is Vasyl Stus.

Vasyl Stus - A man approached a memorial... / Василь Стус – Чоловік підійшов до меморіуму…

[ohsalome]

There is this pretty famous psychologist I used to watch on Youtube until one incident. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion he made a video dedicated to people going through acute war-related stress and trauma (honestly, great initiative, props to him). But what pushed me away from his content forever is that he was adressing ukrainians and russians, figuratively putting on the same scales people hiding in the bomb shelters and living in occupation & people living in peaceful european cities who had their ego hurt becuase they were being treated slightly worse than usual for 5 minutes.

Today I went back to check the comments of that video, to see if there was anyone sharing my feelings, and I think the top comments are the best illustration of how we really live in two different worlds.

[karlyuchka]

ATLA isn't that great at showing the reality of war and you are ready for this conversation.

You can call me biased for this post, but whatever. I've been silent for too long.

It's certainly better than a lot of other shows, but fans often overestimate how good it actually is. It's excellent at showing more simple things like people getting hurt and traumatized because of war, but when it gets to more complicated things it's not that good.

In the show we got two people opposing to the fire nation. TWO. (Technically more because Jet wasn't alone, but you get what I'm saying). And they're BOTH antagonists. It's great to show that anger can blind you, but couldn't they make at least one character who wasn't somehow affiliated with Gaang who was against Fire nation and was in positive light? It kinda sucks. Also it doesn't make sense that Hama could actually attack military men and she just didn't. Why? She could attack civilians AND military and it could have been much better.

Then we get an entire arc to show that fire citizens aren't that bad, they're also people and they're also victims, blah, blah, blah... And the idea isn't entirely bad, but it was shown like they're just all innocent and can't affect what's happening in their kingdom? If the show authors wanted to show something positive about Fire citizens wouldn't it be better to show that there are some opposition to Fire Lord or something? But no, we get episodes about how the citizens are prohibited to show their true selfs because they can't breakdance and we get propaganda mentioned a little. Obviously it's a kids show and demanding to show 100% how war works is dumb, obviously the writers have to tone it down a little, but it still kinda sucked. This is actually why it's my least favourite season. Like, it looked like literally no one in Fire nation was against war? The opposition wasn't mentioned even in the comics? HUNDRED YEARS war and Fire citizens didn't even try to do anything? This fire school arc just made me despise Fire nation more because it looks like they just don't give a damn. (Don't start on "they're being brainwashed by propaganda". If propaganda is enough to convince you that killing is good than you were never good in the first place).

Jet was portraied extremely weird in Ba Ding Se too. Like... Fire nation is occupying Earth nation, killing and abusing civilians. Jet sees two fire benders in the most secured city. One of them was a war general who actually had this exact city under six hundred days siege. OBVIOUSLY he would try to arrest them. Who wouldn't? Who knows what they're doing there? Why would he believe that they don't want to do anything malicious? But show portraits it like some sort of obsession. Like he was crazy and in the wrong, like "they're not hurting anybody and he's nagging them and wants them arrested for no reason". Jet was being completely logical.

At the end of the show Iroh keeps his tea shop in Ba Sing Se??? What??? The same city he had under siege? And he names it "Jasmine dragon". DRAGON. The literal symbol of Fire nation. HUNDRED YEAR war just ended, I refuse to believe that citizens were completely fine with it.

And in "Legend of Korra" we find out that Fire nation still has an army? It got much smaller, but still it was pretty powerful? After hunder year war? How? WHY?

It's also extremely weird that in LOK they explored goddamn ANARCHISM, but not how Fire nation is treated after the war? It looked like nobody even remembers it. It was mentioned like three times in the series.

Also I read the comics and the creation of Republic city was weird af. Kuvira was terrible, but she was right at one thing: Republic city belongs to Earth kingdom. There was a lot of resistance. In comics this colony was still full of Earth civilians and culture. It wasn't completely mixed. And the argument to not returning the colony to Earth kingdom was literally "we've been colonizing this territory for so long that it can't be yours anymore" wich is dumb. It becomes even dumber when you remember it wasn't the only colony like that. It was mentioned that it was ONE OF THE OLDEST colonies. Which means there were colonies where fire culture was even more integrated. Then why weren't those colonies also turned into "something completely new"? And the resistance stopping resisting was really weird. They were extremely enthusiastic and determined and then just stopped because the Avatar came and told them "protect people, not borders"???

In conclusion: "Avatar" has a lot of flaws which are caused by "love everyone" mindset, wich isn't bad at it's core, but sometimes you gotta hate. And some flaws are caused by writers' inability to understand war and what comes after. The series are amazing, and comics too, but people tend too overlook a lot of mistakes.

Thanks for reading

(no one's reading allat💀)

Also if you disagree, it's completely fine, just know that I will not argue about it. It's my opinion that I thought about for a very long time and I will not change it.

[silverfox66]

The drone attack in russia is getting more attention in the news than the attack of the russians on Odesa in Ukraine 🙃.

Attacks by the russians are becoming less "newsworthy" to the Western media. The attention to the horrible things that are happening in Ukraine every day is slowly slipping away.

[rollsrocker]

A good friend pointed out this vibe at this year’s ESC. Checks out!

[anastasiamaru]

russia blew up the dam

[ukraineblr]

[illgiveyouahint]

2 years since the full scale invasion. 10 years of war. We stand with you, Ukraine

[easternblocrelics]

Kiev, Ukrainian SSR Black and white negative 1970s

[yuliia-ozen]

[mapsontheweb]

Every town mentioned on the "Russian Invasion of Ukraine" Wikipedia page (only the ones who have flags)

[ohsalome]

Harvard University is soon to publish english translation of The City, one of huge classics of modernist ukrainian literature - and another recommendation to people who are interested in learning more about ukrainian culture. The book is really beautifully written and captures your attention, but fair warning - many readers find the protagonist to be an infuriating fuckboy.

Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman in full control of the texture, rhythm, and tone of the text, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and achieves success as a writer through a succession of romantic encounters with women.

At its core, the novel is a philosophical search for harmony in a world where our intellectual side expects rational order, whereas the instinctive natural world follows its own principles. The resulting alienation and disorientation reflect the basic principles of existential philosophy, in which Pidmohylnyi is close to his European counterparts of the day.

Valerian Pidmohylny belongs to the "Excecuted Reniassance" - the generation of ukrainian artists killed by the soviet regime. He was arrested by a false accusation of "antirevolutionary activity" and tortured into an admission of guilt. In 1937 he was excecuted by the KGB. For 20 years his widow didn't know if he was alive or dead, and eventually she was told by the officials that "he died in the camps from liver cancer".