Let’s imagine that ten years of the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan would compress to three weeks. It is with such intensity and losses Russia is now at war in Ukraine. Yesterday, on several fronts, Ukrainian counterattacks led to record losses of the occupiers. I thought, when the Russian troops adapt, they would change tactics in the light of new conditions of war. I expected that it would be much more difficult to fight them soon. Nothing of the kind! They are not learning anything, they are still struggling with a failed plan, and as a result, a third of their army has lost combat capability. It figures. If you confine yourself to your own fantasy world, you become inadequate to reality, and in order to adapt to war, you have to accept reality, that is, abandon the false picture of the world. But in this case everything that holds the KGB regime, which has built a system of total evil, will collapse.
The victories of the Ukrainian army, of course, cheer up, but the people under the bombings in the basements don’t feel easier. The enemy is getting ferocious, wants at any cost to succeed at least over in, where it has the advantage, that is, to erase Mariupol from the face of the earth and surround the Donbas group.
The day before yesterday, there was an attempt to encircle Izyum, but Ukrainian troops successfully counterattacked. However, it is now impossible for the inhabitants to leave the city, as the road to Slavyansk became a battlefield. It’s cold, it’s sub-zero, people have to stay in basements under constant bombardment without electricity or heating. The same situation is in Rubejnoe-Severodonetsk-Lisichansk. In the morning, it was reported on the news that today the occupiers terribly bombed over there, destroyed at least 27 buildings. A student from there never made contact during the class. Not all evacuation buses with people manage to get to Slavyansk. The day before yesterday, the church bus succeed to take people out of Severodonetsk, but the other one had bad luck - it was shot on the way.
Before the beginning of the class, we exchange information on who is where and in what danger - Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Liman (there the shelling is already loud), Lisichansk... - no connection to Lisichansk. I usually say that I am in Slavyansk, we are calm, the artillery is barely heard far away, sometimes there are missile hits, but the city has not yet been damaged. Students from the occupied territories do not get in touch. It seems everything is bad there.
People from the captured suburbs of Kiev told that the occupiers shot the residents just for fun. They broke into houses, robbed and... emptied on household items. Although there was a toilet nearby. I think this psychopathological fecal fixation has something to do with necrophilia. What other than necrophilia explains the destruction with a super-heavy bomb of the drama theater in Mariupol, where 1,500 women and children were sheltering! Then they continued to shell, preventing to clear away and search through the rubble. That’s in light of the fact that on both sides of the theater there was a large inscription on the asphalt “CHILDREN”, easily visible from a height. This is already a pattern. Similarly, in 2004, Russian troops shot a school with children and parents in Beslan.
We are dealing with the phenomenon of dehumanisation, that is, the process by which man loses his human qualities. In Tolkien’s conception, orcs arose in a similar way, just not from men, but from elves. That is why in Ukraine the occupiers are called Orcs. The dehumanisation takes place in a picture of the world, where evil is understood as good and good as evil. Necrophilia is the result of the dehumanisation. This life-denying worldview forms the basis and builds the system of total evil, which has absorbed Russia, now turned into a large concentration camp. In Ukraine it is now simply called Mordor, but I think the term can be used in scientific discourse to denote a social system of total evil based on a picture of the world in which evil and good change places. Accordingly, the term “orcs” can also be used as a scientific term to denote the dehumanized representatives of Mordor.
I believe that Mordor is fundamentally not a national phenomenon but a phenomenon of idea; it cannot be equated with any country or people. It is an anti-system hostile to the whole world, which subdues the mind and destroys anything that has not obeyed it. For Ukraine, the struggle against Mordor is not just a war between two States, but a struggle for existence. That is why all Ukrainians so desperately resist, both military and civilian. Indeed, defeat would mean their annihilation not only in cultural, but also in physical sense.
