Morituri te salutant: when a phrase from antiquity and one of the most beautiful Czech songs of the Cold War are given a new dimension in the turning point of our time: Ukraine government organization Two flags - both sewn with threads of freedom. Nothing will ever change the desire of our flag bearers to raise these flags over tyranny that has been defeated.
My God, Ukrainians have been fighting against Russian efforts to destroy us as a nation throughout our history. Just in the last hundred there has been famine, the Bolsheviks, Stalin's repression and purges, the executed revival, the collapse of the cccp, the first Maidan, the second Maidan, the annexation of Crimea, the Donbas, now the invasion war.
God, that's really strong. I didn't believe that in today's complex and relativizing world, evil could be so clearly visible, so explicit, so black, and worthy of such a strong and fundamental hatred. And that there would be so many strays unable or unwilling to recognize it. JŠ
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