About trying to tell people since 2014 that russia is a fascist state
Author: Альона ꑭ Шевченко
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I've been trying to tell people since 2014. Here is a slide from my presentation in 2015. Back then, it was a crazy accusation in 🇬🇧 to say that 🇷🇺 is becoming a fascist state. I was a 20yo from a rural area in Ukraine with no platform whatsoever. 🧵- twitter.com/cryptodrftng/s…
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@cryptodrftng My boss didn't believe me either.
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Hoping longer range devices reach people who can use them soon.
Still worried about a user from my Discord and if his family is ok.
I cried my eyes out tbh when I was reading this letter after the full scale invasion started. It was extremely sad for me to read it. This is the first open letter I ever published, I wasn't not a political activist and had like 300 Twitter followers before the 24th.
6/ Open letter I published 3 days before the full-scale invasion. I'd like to explain that what I meant here was that russia was making demands to NATO, not to Ukraine.
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As a non-NATO member, Ukraine was unfortunately not able to tell russia to fuck off on NATO's behalf 💔 https://t.co/SupAUwEzX2 https://t.co/lPKmctwIbc
Insta stories from 22 Feb of "just a Twitter personality that only exists on Twitter". Unlike for some people, all of this is not a moral debate or an online argument. It's a fight for an existential threat that russia presents to everyone I love.
21/ My insa stories from 22 Feb 2022.
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For years we were trying to tell everyone that #GenocideOfUkrainians was about to happen, AGAIN.
And we are now expected to prove that we are not the Nazis here? Absolute pisstake. https://t.co/mibRLxJ8Er
Continued. Excuse my French in there 🥲 #GenocideOfUkrainians
@Ukraine_DAO Also 22 Feb 2022. I was a little annoyed. https://t.co/le6OHjCkLJ
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Full 🧵 - twitter.com/cryptodrftng/s…
#StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraineNow #ArmUkraine #GenocideOfUkrainians
5/ 22 Feb 2022 - "We won't live under a dictatorship" https://t.co/qghh7iOVlW
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#StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraineNow #ArmUkraine #GenocideOfUkrainians
1/ Looked through my camera roll from the weeks preceding the full scale invasion on 24th February. This was posted on my Insta stories on the 20th Feb. One day later, @Ukraine_DAO was born.
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#StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraineNow 💙💛 https://t.co/zJ6bl5WBh2
In the embedded tweet - the story of formation of @Ukraine_DAO.
✨ @itstaylorlocke wrote an excellent account of it for @FortuneMagazine: finance.yahoo.com: Ethereum’s Russian-born cofounder has been quietly supporting a DAO that raised $8 million in crypto for Ukraine. His dad is even more involved.
✨@EricCMack - for @Forbes twitter.com/ericcmack/stat…
📚More here: ukraine-dao.notion.site: Ukraine DAO In The Media
1/ “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
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Trying to process this tonight.
The Telegram chat that turned into @Ukraine_DAO was set up on 21 Feb - 3 days before the genocidal invasion 💔 https://t.co/S6Uo909e9Y
23 Feb 2022, Ukraine's Parliament channel ( @verkhovna_rada ) - www.instagram.com: Alona #SaveAzov #ꑭ (@alona_ukrainedao) • Instagram photos and videos
Not sure how I got there, my friend suggested me to them when they were looking for a Ukrainian protester from 🇬🇧 #StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraineNow
24 Feb 2022 - all Ukrainian news channels merged into one channel broadcasting fact-checked news 24/7: www.instagram.com: Alona #SaveAzov #ꑭ (@alona_ukrainedao) • Instagram photos and videos It was awful to see the same hosts I knew, broadcasting from bomb shelters, some of them were crying, some swearing live. It's perfectly normal.
My friend said to me later that I was smiling too much for the first day of airstrikes but dad called me straight after this crying from happiness - that's what people in 🇺🇦 wanted to see - Ukrainians smiling and big protests, to know that they're not alone. #StandWithUkraine
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It was also kinda my version of telling the russian warship to fuck off - we knew that the enemy is obviously watching that channel and that it wants to see us broken, crying, in panic. It was important to not give them that - they will be crying instead. #StandWithUkraine
This was mum's reaction on the 24th to the fact that we were invaded by the "second largest army in the world" (I have an alternative view of them - twitter.com/cryptodrftng/s…) You can leave her a birthday message here: twitter.com/cryptodrftng/s…
#StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraineNow
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🎉 It's my mum's birthday tomorrow! You can leave her a message using this form, she'll be happy to read it: https://t.co/jTTnXoAL1O
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💌 She recently wrote to @kmets_, I wrote about it in my blog: https://t.co/KSrZkv0NHg
📝 About mum & dad: https://t.co/IGBsThAoYY https://t.co/fTskeIdxsb
Will share more about mum tomorrow, but here's my favourite recent quote from her:
Forgot to say: also mentioned the Azov drama to mum.
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"Tell all the people talking shit about Azov there to stop embarrassing themselves and shut the fuck up"❤️
This is what I posted on the night of the 24th. Obviously I was in a state of shock and angry that after all these years of 🇺🇦 trying to tell the world about 🇷🇺, we were not heard. Our experience was belittled and we were called russophobic Nazis: www.instagram.com: Alona #SaveAzov #ꑭ (@alona_ukrainedao) • Instagram photo
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In the post I left a link to @BackAndAlive, here's a new one: www.comebackalive.in.ua: Donate | comebackalive
@Ukraine_DAO made the largest donation to Come Back Alive in its history because peace in Ukraine is only at this point possible through total military defeat of russia. #ArmUkraineNow
- What is the largest donation to @BackAndAlive?
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- Probably $4m in crypto from @Ukraine_DAO. I don't remember others, tbh. There are some companies that frequently give smaller amounts, so their total amount may be larger. But as a one-off, it's this one.
#Ukraine @TarasChmut 🇺🇦 https://t.co/BYemRDABA9
Our work with @BackAndAlive extends beyond financial help - this article was translated on request of their analytical department by our Translation Pod Lead @garbanzo0813 - twitter.com/ukraine_dao/st… It currently has over 30k views.
New Drftng with Ukraine is live - it's an unusual one as it's a "guest post" from the russian state media.
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Translated by @garbanzo0813, @Ukraine_DAO, on request of the analytical department of @BackAndAlive.
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
https://t.co/CDLY5NCkXn
You can learn more about @BackAndAlive in our Notion. I also recommend everyone to follow @jazzuit who's a creative director of Come Back Alive and my very good friend ❤️ #StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraineNow