"A woman decides to leave her abusive husband, finds a new spouse. But her ex keeps stalking her, beating her up and also beats up her new guy. After years of terror, the new guy eventually gives up and abandons her, leaving her easy prey for her ex. As the police talk to her in the hospital, battered and bruised yet again, one of the cops goes 'she would have been so much better off if she had just never left her husband'."
I may disappoint you, but the image of a Ukrainian woman, even in the works of Ukrainian authors, let alone in modern so-called memetic culture, is somewhat different. From, say, Gogol's Oksana, who demanded the queen's red shoes from her lover, forcing him to make a deal with the devil, to the witch with a sickle, killing Russian prisoners, and all the variations in between.
Maybe that's because Russians are fighting Russians, while Ukrainians have left- some to Europe, others to Russia.
Those who left for Europe demand the 1991 borders (without specifying the month, because there's a certain catch there, based on which, in principle, all of Ukraine could have remained in the USSR- a narrative for an average IQ of 78). The Ukrainians in Russia also demand complete capture, and if that doesn’t work, then at least a nuclear strike.
Ukrainian is not a nation it's a state of mind.
This post was edited by Norlander on Dec 2 2025 05:20am