Nov 11, 2025

Good morning, unbreakable!
Glory to the nation!

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Imperfect translation:

My name is Boris Tinka. I live in krakow. It is worth announcing that I am not a Ukrainian, but a Polish born in Poland. I’m not hiding under someone else’s name and I’m not using a fake profile picture.

Over the past years, I have heard hundreds of times that I am a traitor to the Polish nation simply because I protect Ukrainians from a growing wave of hatred in Poland. And what’s worse, the most cruel words are bursting not only from Russian bots, but also from real people.

A few years ago I was baptized “the foot of Bandera” – by the way, a peculiar name – I don’t remember exactly when. Maybe this was when I first fell in love with Odessa? And maybe when I hung the Ukrainian flag on Facebook? Or when I donated a few PLNs to a refugee fund? Or maybe it was after the release of my first Odessa book, or after one of my author meetings talking about Kyiv ? And maybe when I as a guide showed Polish tourists Odessa, bringing smiles on their faces? Or maybe just when I wrote that Russia invaded Ukraine without obligatory “but”? And maybe when, while in Odessa, he gave interviews to Polish radio and television stations during the first weeks of the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine? And maybe when I was doing humanitarian aid with my friends?

I don’t know. I don’t remember. I only know that once I woke up not a citizen of Poland, but a “banderívs гроkoû foot”. Sounds proud, doesn’t it? A “foot” is someone small, but necessary, stable and grounded. What about the “Bandera foot”? This adds a touch of exotics, drama, and geopolitical depth.

All because I dared to believe that if children are fleeing bombs, they need to be helped, not checked their historical views. And that’s when it all began. In the comments there were words like “traitor! “, “Polish-speaking Ukrainophile! » and « why are you helping them? They’re still going to cheat on you! »

Sometimes, reading these epithetes, I wonder what my grandparents would say if they saw that in the 21st century, helping war victims ceased to be humanitarian and became ideology. Has the world truly gone mad? No matter what, I still believe that you don’t get on the side of the attack, but your conscience. What can be kept in the heart and memory of Volyn, and condolences to those whose homes are destroyed by rockets today.

So yes, I stand with Ukraine. Not on your knees. And if this makes me a “bandera foot” so be it. In the end, even the feet sound proud.
Boris Tinka

@Borys Plastering
My name is Borys Tynka. I live in Krakow. It is worth emphasizing that I am not Ukrainian, but a Polish born in Poland. I am not hiding myself under another name, I am not using a fake profile picture.

In recent years, I have heard hundreds of times, that I am a traitor of the Polish nation only because I defend Ukrainians from the growing wave of hate in Poland. And what’s worse, the sharpest words fall not only from the mouths of Russian bots, but also from real people.

With “Banderowski foot” – in its own way, peculiar name – I was baptized a few years ago. Can’t remember exactly when. Maybe when I first admired Odessa? Maybe when I put the Ukrainian flag on Facebook? Or when I transferred a few PLN to a refugee foundation? Maybe it happened after the publication of my first book about Odessa, or after one of the author’s meetings where I talked about Kiev? And maybe when as a guide I was showing Polish tourists Odessa, bringing smiles on their faces? Or maybe just when I wrote that Russia invaded Ukraine without a mandatory “but”? Or when I was in Odessa, I gave interviews to Polish radio and television broadcasters in the first weeks of the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine? Or when I and my friends got involved in humanitarian aid?

I don’t know. I don’t remember. All I know is that one day I woke up not as a citizen of the Republic of Poland, but as a “bandera foot”. Sounds proud, doesn’t it? A “foot” is someone small but needed, stable, firm on the ground. What about the “Banderowski”? This adds a bit of exotics, drama, and geopolitical depth.

And all because I dared to be careful, that if children are fleeing from bombs, they should be helped, not checked their historical views. And then it began. In the comments the words appeared: “Traitor! “, “Polish-speaking Ukranophile ! “, “What are you helping them for?” They’ll betray you anyway! ”

Sometimes, when reading these epithetes, I wonder what my grandparents would say if they saw that in the 21st century, helping war victims was no longer humanitarianism and became an ideology. Maybe the world has gone mad? Despite everything, I still believe that you don’t take the side of the attacker because of the passport, but their conscience. That you can have in your heart both the memory of Volhynia and sympathy for those whose homes are being destroyed by rockets today.

So yes I stand with Ukraine. Not on your knees. And if that makes me a “bander foot”, so be it. Finally even the feet are proud

This attracted 3000 comments. Here is just one, as a sample :

Maria Kovach-Rosko

Thank you, dear friend, for your understanding of Ukraine, help and love. You have a bright mind that knows how to distinguish between white and black, and a kind, big heart. May the good you have given us, Ukrainians, return to you a hundredfold, and may harmony live in your soul.

Дякую Вам, дорогий друже, за розуміння України, допомогу і любов.У Вас світлий розум,що вміє розрізнити біле від чорного та добре ,велике серце.Хай вам повертається сторицею добро, дароване нам, українцям і живе гармонія в Вашій душі.

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Imperfect translation:

When foreigners ask why so many Ukrainians speak Russian, name a part of the historical facts that show the chronology of Russification and destruction of the Ukrainian language, culture and nation from 1708 to 1990. Though it started early.

1708. , November – Destruction by the order of Peter and the Hetmans кіkoí̈ capital Baturin (with exceptional cruelty was murdered all its inhabitants – 6 thousand. men, women and children, and the city of rain destroyed and burned.
      1720 r. – Decree of Peter I on the prohibition of printing of new books in Ukrainian in Kyiv-Pechersk and Chernihiv printing houses, and old books before printing were ordered to conform with Russian.
      1721 – Decree of Peter I on censoring Ukrainian books. Destruction of the Chernihiv Printing House.
      1729 r. – The decree of the King Peter II, who obliged to rewrite from the Ukrainian language to Russian all state decrees and orders.
      1755,1766,1769,1775,1786 pp. – Prohibition of the St. Petersburg Synod to print Ukrainian books.
      1764 r. – Instruction of Catherine II Prince O. Vyazems ,komu about the strengthening of russification of Ukraine, Smolen region, Baltic and Finland.
      1769 – Decree of the Synod on the removal of Ukrainian alphabets and Ukrainian texts from church books.
      1786 – Prohibition of church submissions in the Ukrainian language, introduction of Russian pronunciation of church Slavs слоkih texts. The order on obligation of the Russian language at the Kyiv Academy.
      1817 – Closing of the Kyiv-Mohylans їkoí̈ Academy.
      1831 – abolition of the royal government of magdeburg law (it put an end to the non-Russian judiciary, government elections and local autonomy in Ukraine).
      1847 , April 5 – Arrest and indefinite imprisonment of Taras Shevchenko by a private soldier in a separate Orenburg Corps under the resolution of Nicholas and under the strictest supervision, with a prohibition of writing and drawing, which was equivalent to imprisonment (was there until August 2, 1857). ). 1862 – Closing of Ukrainian Sunday and free schools for adults.
      1863, July 18 – Circular of the Minister of the Interior of Russia P. Valuyev about the prohibition of printing books in Ukrainian.
      1869, 1886. – Decrees of the tsar administration on dividends to officials of Russian origin in Ukraine for success in russifikacííí̈.
      1876, May 18 – The Secret Yem Decree of Alexander II on the prohibition of importation from abroad to the empire of any Ukrainian books and brochures, prohibition of Ukrainian theater and printing in Ukrainian language of original works of literature, texts of Ukrainian songs under the notes.
      1881 – Prohibition of pronouncing church sermons in Ukrainian.
1709. – Decree of Alexander III on the prohibition of the use of Ukrainian language in official institutions and baptism of children with Ukrainian names.
1710. – Prohibition of Ukrainian books for children.
      1907 – closure of the tsar ттяkim government of Ukrainian periodic press, confiscation issued in the years of the revolution 1905-1907 Ukrainian literature, repression against figures of Ukrainian culture.
      1908 – Decree of the Senate of the Russian Empire on “damage” of cultural and educational activities in Ukraine.
      1914 , March – Prohibition of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birthday of T. Shevchenko.
      1914 – Decree of Nicholas II on the cancellation of Ukrainian press. Prohibition in the occupied Russian army of Galicia and Bukovina of the use of Ukrainian language, printing books, newspapers and magazines in Ukrainian. The development of the society “prosvita”, destruction of the library of the scientific society named after shevchenko. Deportation of many thousands of conscious Ukrainians to Siberia.
      1921-1923 – hunger in the steppovih areas of Ukraine, caused by the policy of “war communism” and food rzverstkoû in the village, resulting in the death of up to 1,5 million. peasant.
      1929 September – Arrest of prominent figures of Ukrainian science, culture, and UAPC – for “belonging” to the fictional ODPU of the Union of Liberation of Ukraine (SVU) and Union of Ukrainian Youth (SUM).
      1929-1930 – the first phase of collectivízacííí̈ and “rozkurkulennâ” in Ukraine. Eviction of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian wealthy peasants to Siberia and the Far East.
      1930 , March 9 – April 19 – Trial in Kharkiv over 45 figures of Ukrainian science, literature, culture, UAPC – for affiliation to the so-called “Union of the Liberation of Ukraine” (SVU).
      1932-33 R.R. – Organization of the Bolshovyts нізаkim regime of artificial holodomoru in Ukraine, as a result of which 8 million Ukrainian peasants died. Mass relocation of Russians in extinct Ukrainian villages.
      1933 – Pogrom Ukrainians in Kuban.
      1934-41 – Destruction of architectural and cultural monuments in different cities of Ukraine, arrest and execution 80% of Ukrainian intelligence.
      1937 , November – mass shooting of prisoners on solovkah Ukrainian writers and other figures of Ukrainian culture (until the 20th anniversary of October
      of the coup).
      1938 , April 24 – Implementation of Russian language as mandatory in all schools of Ukraine.
      1939-1941 – Wide repression of nkvs organs against ukrainians of western regions. Mass deportation of the Ukrainian population to remote areas of the USSR.
      1947 , March 3 – Appointment of L. Kaganovych as the first secretary of the CC of KP (b) in and a new “cleansing” among Ukrainian cultural cadres accused of “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism”.
      1949 – Another “cleansing” in KP (b) in connection with the decisions of her 16th Congress of January 25-28 (accused of Ukrainian nationalism from January 1949 until September 1952 has been excluded from the party 22175 of its members).
      1954 March 23-24-18 Congress of the CPU approved a set of young men and girls from Ukraine to Ciberia and to Kazakhstan for the occupation of whole and pelogovih lands (during 1952-1956). about 100 thousand people went there).
      1957-61 – Enhanced anti-religious shares in the ursr, eliminating about half of church-religious institutions (parishes, monasteries, seminars).
      1959 , October 15 – Murder of C. Bandera by agent of KGB B. Stashinsky.
      1961 , January – Closed Court in Lviv over members of the Ukrainian Worker-Peasant Union (L. Luk Yanenko, I. Kandiba, S. Virun and others. ), which existed the right of exit of the ursr from the crsr. Condemnation of L. Lukyanenko to death penalty.
      1962 – Trial of 20 members of the Lviv Ukrainian National Committee, four of whom were convicted of shooting.
      1963 – Submission of the National Academies of Sciences of the Allied Republic of the Moscow Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
      1965 , August-September – the first big wave of arrests of Ukrainian figures in Ukraine (Bogdan and Mykhailo Goriní, P. Zalivakha, S. Karavansky, V. Moroz, M. Osadchij, A. Shevchuk and others. ).
      1969 , June – Letter of Ukrainian Political Prisoners (M. Gorinya, I. Kandiba, L. Lukyanenka) to the Human Rights Commission in the UN about poisoning political prisoners.
      1972 , January-May – the second big wave of intelligence arrests in Ukraine.
      1972 , May – elimination from the position of the first secretary of the ck kpu p. .elesta for Ukrainian nationalism; cleaning of management staff kpu.
      1978 , November 11 – Directive of the College of the Ministry of Education of the URSR “Improve the study of the Russian language in the public schools of the republic” (enhancing russificacííí̈).
      1979 , March-October – New arrests of Ukrainian actors in Ukraine: O. Berdnyka (March 6), Yu. Badzya (April 23), Yu. Litvina (August 6), M. Gorbalya (October 23) and others. (all of them were sentenced to maximum imprisonment in the camps of the strict regime and sent to remote areas of Russia).
      1979 , May 18 – mysterious murder of composer V. Ivasyuk near Lviv.
      1980-81 – Arrest of Ukrainian political figures S. Naboka, L. Miliavsky, L. Lohvitskaya.
      1983 – Resolution of the Central Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan on strengthening the study of Russian language in schools and payment of 16 % of allowance to paid teachers of Russian language and literature (“Andropovsky Decree”) and the directive of the college of the Ministry of Education of the URSR “About additional measures to improve the study of the Russian language in general-educational schools, pedagogical educational institutions, preschool and after-school institutions of the republic”, directed to strengthen russification.
      1984 – Died in the camps O.Tikhiy, Yu.Litvin, V.Marchenko.
      1985 , September 4 – in the concert camp died the poet V. Stus.
      1989 – Resolution of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the only official nationwide language (Russian) in the USSR.
      1990 , April – Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of the USSR on granting the Russian language the status of the official language in the USSR.

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