Feb 11, 2024
Russian citizens “always come back for what is theirs,” a Russian state media host has said, dubbing Moscow’s troops the “aggressors” as the grueling war in Ukraine fast approaches its 2-year mark.
The Russian people are “aggressors and extremely evil,” Sergey Mardan, said in a clip translated and posted to social media by Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry.
Throughout the war, the Kremlin has framed Ukraine as part of historical Russia. Back in 2021, ahead of Russian forces crossing into Ukraine for Moscow’s full-scale invasion, President Vladimir Putin said “Russians and Ukrainians were one people—a single whole.”
But Kyiv and many Western analysts describe the war as a fight for survival for Ukraine, with its soldiers battling against cultural erasure.
“They say that we are aggressors and extremely evil, cruel people, and so on,” Mardan said, making no distinction between Russian citizens, the military or the government. “I always reply to that: ‘Yes, yes, you are right.'”
“Yes, Russians are aggressors; yes, Russians can be cruel and do not forget anything. Russians always come back from what is theirs,” Mardan said, according to Gerashchenko’s translation.
ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Russians don’t feel guilty. Russians are not prone to reflection. Russians are engaged in cultural appropriation and don’t even understand what it is.”
Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment via email.
"We are aggressors, extremely evil, cruel people," Russian propagandist Mardan started telling the truth about Russians out of the blue.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) February 11, 2024
By the way, what do you really think about Russians now? What are the main common national traits you see? https://t.co/UBIHcfsQQY pic.twitter.com/2fgazVKkZF
Putin appeared to double down on this well-worn tactic of justifying his country’s invasion of Ukraine in his much-examined interview with former Fox News anchor, Tucker Carlson, earlier this week. “Ukraine is an artificial state,” the Russian leader said, according to a Kremlin readout.
“The president of Russia told the Western world as carefully and in detail as possible why there was no Ukraine, there is not and there will not be,” former Russian president and current deputy head of the country’s security council, Dmitry Medvedev, said in a post to messaging app Telegram.
Russian state media has, throughout the war, amplified similar rhetoric. Mardan, a prominent voice among Kremlin propagandists, has previously claimed being Ukrainian is a “completely deliberate” and political choice.
In a graphic analogy, Mardan then compared claiming Ukrainian identity to “swearing an oath with the devil.”
“A person stands in front of the mirror, looks in the mirror, and says, ‘I am a Ukrainian.'” Mardan said, according to a translation provided by the Russian Media Monitor project, run by journalist Julia Davis. “He swears some kind of an oath and slits his vein, I don’t know all that they do during it.”
“You denounce Christ and say, ‘Now I am a Ukrainian,'” Mardan said.
“Russia has sought for centuries to sideline and extinguish the Ukrainian language and culture,” it has targeted Ukrainian communities within Russia systematically,” Rory Finnin, an associate professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge, U.K., told Newsweek in January.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-state-tv-sergey-mardan-ukraine-1868844
This creature first admits that he and his fellow filth are aggressors and extremely evil, and then tries to make Ukrainians look like subhumans. This goes to show you what brainless zombies they are.
Wow! Honest words on Russian tv – who would have thought? Thanks for debunking the stupid Kremlin propaganda that Russia is totally innocent and had been forced into this “special operation”, Sergey Mardan!
Anyone who thinks that mafia land is innocent and/believes their lies should seek professional help at a mental institution. This goes to show you that the truth always finds a way to leak out.
“Russia means despotism and tyranny the like of which the world has never known. It is as dark as night, as cold as a stone wall, and a ruthless force that encroaches on all lands under the guise of external benevolence.”
Pylyp Kapelhorodskyi (1882-1938), Ukrainian scholar of eastern cultures, victim of Stalin’s terror.
Euromaidan Press:
“Ukraine’s fight for freedom echoes through the ages in writers like Pylyp Kapelhorodskyi, born in 1882 into poverty.
His truth-telling against tyranny led to multiple arrests by tsars and soviets. Stalin had the 56yo activist shot in 1938 for exposing the “Russian world’s” cruelty.”
It’s a clear as crystal that mafia land is a depraved, evil shithole that should be burned and buried. This makes it all the more baffling that it still enjoys so much support right in our midst. Not to mention the fact that we had all of this before when Nazi Germany reared its ugly head. Humanity hasn’t learned anything from its past mistakes. We’re damned to repeat them.
It was them ruSSians (and ukrainians) who took Berlin and forced Hitler into suicide.
So, they merely replaced one evil with another evil. One horror show ended, the next horror show began.
RuSSia and ruSSian mentality will never change, i don’t have any illusions. Yet i’m still hoping for a future light version under a true leader who will finally let go former Soviet allies wherever they want to go.
I’m with you, Mike. But, I have no illusions that this will happen in our lifetimes. An entire generation of degenerate alcoholic ruskie zombies must first die or get killed.