Today is Sunday. One half of the Church celebrates Easter - the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Next Sunday the other half of the Church will celebrate it. For Christians, it is the major celebration of victory over death, which opened the way to salvation. For everyone else, it's just a celebration of the idea of the triumph of life. And what could be the opposite of the idea of the victory of life over death? Only the idea of the priority of death in any situation of choice, that is, necrophilia. In this regard, I wondered what drives Putin and his supporters more: imperialism or necrophilia?
For the second week now, military analysts have been promising that Russia will gather its fist and launch an offensive on Slavyansk and Barvenkovo. In fact, the offensive has been going on for a long time, but skillful counterattacks of the Ukrainian military prevent the invaders from gathering a single fist. Intense battles do not stop, the cannonade is constantly heard here. The enemy is not far from us, he could well shell Slavyansk with long-range artillery, but the Ukrainian defenders do not allow him to deploy.
The invaders are constantly bringing up fresh forces, and it is very likely that at some point Slavyansk and Kramatorsk will be systematically destroyed. Therefore, the evacuation was announced. We can assume that its first stage has ended: those who decided to leave - left, and those who decided to stay - stayed. This can be seen from the fact that there are fewer people on the streets. There were relatively few of them in сhurch Good News today, with more than two-thirds of them being men.
As I returned home, the siren was blaring and there were explosions. One of them was even somewhere nearby. Passers-by did not react to them in any way, and this is logical. After all, if it is possible to predict where they will shoot from, then it makes sense to hide, and if this is not possible, what is the point of worrying and fussing? I went to the supermarket. There were few people, half the shelves were empty, but the most necessary products were there, and hunger does not threaten. I bought apples, and when I got out, the siren was already dead. Then the cannonade was heard again, but somewhere quite far away.
Putin can still destroy several cities, but it is obvious to everyone that he has lost the war, and from the point of view of a normal person, it is pointless to continue it.
However, all attempts to calculate the actions of the Russian authorities failed because they think differently, not like normal people. All the Star Trek aliens - Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi, and others - are far more understandable and humane than the Russian imperialists. From the standpoint of common sense, it is illogical to attack Ukraine. Here lives a peaceful country, trying to maintain friendly relations with everyone. Why conquer it? There is no economic benefit. It is impossible to subjugate it. Even if a pro-Russian government can be imposed by force, the people will overthrow it after a while.
Let’s assume, for some irrational reasons, people consider the extension of Russia’s borders to be the meaning of their lives. Not for any good, but for nothing. There are super-valuable ideas, such as building communism or the Third Reich, for the sake of which ideological adherents are ready to kill millions of people. But then I have another question.
If the murders in Ukraine were aimed at its occupation and subjugation to Russia, why were the massacres without any specific purpose, as was the case, for example, in Borodyanka?
The assault on Kyiv can be explained by the strategy of conquest. However, Borodyanka is a peaceful city, there were no military facilities. Nevertheless, the occupiers bombed multi-storey buildings with super-heavy aerial bombs, turning them into mass graves. Those who did not have time to hide in the cellars died immediately, and those who did, died long and painfully. People who were trying to clear the rubble were shot. The destruction of Borodyanka can no longer be explained by the imperial position, this is a manifestation of necrophilia in its purest form.
In 2016, I was in the front-line village Opytnoye, which is near the Donetsk airport. The village was shelled constantly even during a lull. Not a single house was left intact there, and people were forced to live in basements. Artillery shells can destroy an entire apartment, but not an entire house, so the basement was safe. After all, then the invaders had not yet used aviation.
Now people are in much greater danger, as there is no rescue from a super-heavy aerial bomb in the basement. The other day, such super-heavy bombs were used to destroy multi-storey buildings in Bolshaya Kamyshevakha near Izyum to the ground. Only good air defense can save Slavyansk from such a bombardment. We'll see how it goes.
Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine can still be explained by imperial motivation and inadequate perception of reality. But how to explain his decision to continue the war when it is already lost? Here is the answer to the question above. Now there is only one driving force behind the war - necrophilia. Accordingly, all those who continue to support or justify Russia's war against Ukraine are necrophiliacs.
From a Christian position, necrophilia as an antithesis to the resurrection of Jesus Christ is anti-Christianity in the literal sense. Accordingly, those religious leaders who supported Putin's actions in Ukraine, such as Pentecostal chairman of ROSHVE (Russian United Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith) Sergei Ryakhovsky and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, are not just heretics, but anti-Christians.
I foresee the objection that they are not necrophiliacs, but simply victims of propaganda, deceived by lies about Ukrainian Nazis. Of course, it happens that people are deceived by propaganda and fakes, but even then people retain the ability to doubt and when meeting with eyewitnesses, they try to figure out how things really are. There can’t be any claims to such people. We are talking about people of a different kind, those who unequivocally reproduce propaganda clichés without the slightest desire to know anything. They believe propaganda not because they’ve been deceived, but because they want to believe it. They do not test the veracity with facts or arguments, but with correspondence to the picture of the world in which the entire civilized world is hostile and should be destroyed. They voluntarily agreed to this picture of the world, and this consent is the very necrophilic act that gives reason to consider those who justify or support the war against Ukraine as necrophiles.
